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At Alpine the Directors do all of the cabin assignments personally. We go to great lengths to match up boys who will get along and have similar interests even if they’ve never met. We never put a single camper who does not know anyone in a cabin of boys who already know each other, either from home or from previous years at camp.
One of the great opportunities at camp is for boys to meet other boys from new places and perhaps make lifelong friendships from these cabin mates. One of our counselors’ main goals is to make sure boys are meeting each other, making new friends, and that all boys in the cabin are included.
Boys relate through activity and there is lots of activity at Alpine. So, it usually doesn’t take long (sometimes 15 minutes, literally!) before boys who have just met are off and running (literally!) to play ping pong or 4 square together along with their counselor.
