Camping Cosmos

It was the first day of my summer job as a counselor in training with the local recreation department and I was tasked with organizing and leading activities for the young campers. As I was putting on my green staff shirt and lanyard, I asked myself, “Why would these kids ever listen to me?” After all, I walked by the elementary school every day on my way to high school, and they were a rowdy bunch, arguing with each other and ignoring the adults in charge. Still, I tried to push these thoughts out

I swung from my brightly colored hammock, camouflaged amongst the other teenagers in their enos. I was famished, uncomfortably hot, and drenched by the pouring rain that fell from the sky and dripped down the bridge of my nose. I didn’t mind though, and neither did the other eleven campers that also futilely attempted to keep their bibles dry while listening to our counselors over the rain. There at Camp Lake Stephens, I learned that sometimes giving up your life can help you find it. The Holy Spirit

After twenty-two years of marriage and tent camping, we finally upgraded to a popup camper, which is considered to be “entry level” to travel trailers. We loved that popup camper (Note: Any time I say “we loved,” please understand I am excluding my daughter). For the first time in our camping lives we had air conditioning, running water, light that did not come from a flame, and although it was not much softer than the ground we had slept on for years, we had a bed off the ground. For the first

Fire pit Lonnie, my wife, and I bought this wooded, fairly secluded acreage in the country twenty miles out of town where we set up home. When the word got out to our friends about its seclusion, it soon became party central. So it wasn’t unusual that one night seven of us were sitting around the fire pit watching the flames do their almost hypnotizing dance. Those seven included me, Ben, and my wife Lonnie, and our good friends Jimmie and his wife Darlene. Also there were three guys we worked with

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It was early when we woke up, the sun hadn’t completely risen and I was already starving. To our surprise, we found that the swamps had expanded and overflowed overnight. We camped at a site which we thought was a dry camping area, but when the sun came out we realised the whole forest floor had become one massive swamp. The stench of the swamp was so overwhelming that I suddenly didn’t feel so hungry anymore. Our balloon basket was gooey and dirty on the outside and on the inside patches of swamp

you make new friends and can’t wait to go back to camp next year. My story is when one year of camp every thing goes wrong. My camp story starts out on a nice warm, dry afternoon where I was all ready and packed with my overstuffed plastic frame camping backpack. The rest of the Boy Scout Troop meets at the Methodist Church in town, were we always meet before we leave for any camp out or meeting. When we were accounted for we loaded up into two different vehicles. One vehicle was considered the fun

Evaluation From 2010-2013, this extension camp director has used the National Camping Research Consortium camp standardized instrument to evaluate life skills 4-H campers in Kanawha County. In 2014 a modified version, selected by WVUES 4-H Youth Development Program, was adopted for residential camps in 2014. Additionally, the Health Rocks! Program was integrated into the residential camping in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. The program is also designed to increase life skills allowing them to better

Have you ever been to a camp infested with spiders with an unclosed tent without isolation to the outside world whatsoever? Well I have and that’s exactly what I am going to talk about in this story. It was during the beginning of the summer of 2013; I was going to a Boy Scout camp called Boxwell, which I had much contempt for. I was riding in the car with my friend, Charles, but he goes by Zim. After 30 minutes or so we arrived at Boxwell, while we were roaming around we found Hudson. Zim and I