The Boys Only Blog

It’s a beautiful sunshine day on the Mountain.  Project Adventure (ropes course) and Horseback staff arrive on Sunday for Training.  Camp is here!  What’s new at Alpine this, you may be wondering? 

We’re putting two new washers courts at the Ping Pong pavilion.  We’re adding at least one Washers court to the Ridge, as well as a new foosball table and hopefully a ping pong table.  On the Mountain we’re hoping to add a couple Ping pong tables to the porches of Mountain Hollow.  We hope to have a giant sandbox in Hunter Hollow for creating mazes and tunnels and sandcastles.

Tree’s been working on a lot of new games.  Ramp ball’s a human size version of Rollerball like you might play at Chuck e Cheese or the local fair.  The Trappers (finishing 4th grade) this year are going to the Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coke for Trip Day!  This is going to be an incredible trip.  Boys finishing 3rd grade in Junior Camp get to have a tour of the Mayfield Ice Cream dairy in Athens, TN – which of course can only end with one thing – world famous Moosetracks!!  Then they are headed to Chattanooga for a huge surprise that only they will experience on Trip Day.  Here’s your hint: it’s coming out new and it’s the opposite of down. 

Peter Hurt’s going to be heading up Horseback staff this summer - he’s a lifelong Alpine camper and counselor who’s been the Head Wrangler at a dude ranch in Colorado for the last two years (in other words, a real cowboy!).  He’s bought several calves and plans to let some of the older boys who take Horseback be real cowboys.  They will get to round up the steer on horseback. 

No doubt there’ll be many other new activities and games this summer, many invented while hanging out on a cabin porch with friends.  That’s the beauty of camp – no matter what you’re playing, new or old, complicated or simple, you get to do it all with camp friends and counselors in God’s beautiful creation.  We’ll see you soon – can’t wait!