A Day in the Life of a skyline camper
overnight camper
On a typical day, you’ll wake up to the sounds of an old fashioned alarm clock in your cabin with your counselors and fellow campers. You'll get cleaned up, ready for the day and up the big hill in time for breakfast at the K & D. We kick off the day after a nourishing meal at the Gathering with songs, stretches, Kudos, jokes and more. Then we have Scatters, your free choice activity period, followed by Group Choice with your cabin mates. You’ll join in activities like boating, fishing, tree climbing, gardening, farm animal visits, archery, soccer, camouflage games, wild edible hikes and more. After lunch, you have an hour of Siesta to recharge before afternoon activities.
In the afternoon, you’ll spend a few hours in the pool, the Makerspace and the Zone. You might start out trying to create a birdhouse out of cardboard in the Makerspace, then head to the Zone to join in a group of friends building a fort in the woods, and finish splashing around in the pool. Just before dinner, you make a stop at your cabin to get ready for the evening and join your counselors and cabinmates doing your daily cabin chore.
After dinner, the All Camp Event brings everyone to either a game of Capture the Flag, an Open Mic, a Water Carnival, a Farm Party, a Costume Party & Dance, or a Global Celebration of Cultures. We close most evenings with a campfire, a snack and head to our cabins.
Then finally campers take turns using the bathrooms and showers after a sweaty day of hiking and play. Cabin time in the evening can be reading, talking about the day, writing, drawing, whatever unplugged method helps you calm down. Sleep is always deep in the woods after our busy days. Then we wake up, and do it all again!
DAY CAMPer
On a typical day, you’ll meet your fellow camp friends and counselors at your color group tree at the Day Camp Hub. You play games or explore the woods until all our camp friends have checked in. On the way to morning snack your group may decide to climb the pine trees or walk around the pond. We kick off the day altogether at the Gathering with songs, stretches, Kudos, jokes and more.
Your camp friends in your color group will usually be similar in age to you. Before lunch there is Group Choice time to be spent out on the trails, in the hammocks, creating at the Makerspace or playing in the Zone. Your next stop on this daily journey is lunch at the K & D, or if it’s your lucky day, cooking over a campfire.
After lunch, it’s time for sunblock and swimsuits at the pool. If you aren’t up for swimming there are several other things to choose from on the pool deck or nearby at the Makerspace. Remember to move your pool tag before heading out of the pool area, perhaps to the Zone to play on the sports court or build forts in the woods. Next up… Scatters when you get to enjoy an activity that you choose from the daily options like boating, fishing, tree climbing, gardening, farm animal visits, archery, soccer, camouflage games, wild edible hikes and more.
As that activity time ends you all head back to the Day Camp Hub to reconnect with your color group and eat a snack. Soon the bus will take a load of your friends home, and your grown-ups will arrive to take you home for the day: maybe tired, a little dirty but joyous and looking forward to the next day.