2-Week Camp is Here!
2-Week Camp has begun!
We’ve been waiting all summer for our eager & enthusiastic 2-Week Campers to arrive, and yesterday was the big day! We were excited to welcome campers and families to the mountain for the 2-Week session. We hope that you had safe travels back after Opening Day - the boys woke up today ready to hit the ground running, and this session is already off to a great start!
Here are the highlights from the rest of the day after you all started heading back home yesterday:
The boys got unpacked and settled in with their cabin mates. There were lots of introductions as well as reunions! For those who arrived earlier in the morning, there were game areas at the Tennis Courts and Landsports Field. Once boys were settled into their cabins, they could jump right into activities without waiting around for everyone else to arrive.
We gathered as a full camp community at Morning Watch for our welcome meeting before lunch.
The boys got to choose their 6 daily activities, take a cabin photo, get a tour of camp, and check off their swim check and health check. In the afternoon they could also sign up for trips and preps, as well as special activities (like fly fishing, sailing, horseback, and blacksmithing).
Below are all the signups offered yesterday, to get ready for a great first day.
For Evening Program after dinner, we played “FCC Party Deluxe Edition”. This was like an interactive “Life-Sized” Board Game where cabins compete in challenges, complete team building activities, and “break the ice” with each other. The whole event was a Green vs. Gold challenge, so cabins earned points for their respective teams.
Cabins were paired up, and each were given a starting location somewhere on camp property. From there, each pair of cabins acted as one “Game Piece” moving from location to location on the game board map. Each location on the map had a challenge, where the cabins would compete against each other.
Winning challenges earned your cabin “Camp Cash” which would be turned in at the end of the game to earn points for your respective team. They could also be used to buy “Chance Cards” at Bank locations which would either help, or hurt, the team’s progress. Each Chance Card was 50 Camp Cash, so teams had to spend (or save) wisely!
It was certainly a busy day, but the boys likely went to sleep dreaming of all the excitement that was yet to come in the morning.
These blogs will be posted each morning on our website at fallingcreek.com/blog, sharing a few highlights about the previous day’s fun.
Blogs this summer will usually be photo-based with some brief bullet-point details, but may occasionally be short vlog style videos instead, or short stories about a specific event or trip.
You can subscribe to our blog if you’d like, so that each post gets delivered to your email inbox. We also encourage you to check out our daily posts on our Instagram site (@fallingcreek) and on Falling Creek Camp’s facebook page.
You can also stay connected with our summer photo system through your CampInTouch account. Our intention is not to try to be comprehensive and capture a photo of every camper and counselor every day, but to give you a general idea of what is going on at camp.
Online Photos
Daily photos will be uploaded each morning by lunchtime, reflecting photos taken the day before.
When you access the photo system within CampInTouch, you’ll notice the organization of photo albums.You’ll also see a season selector at the top of the screen, which gives you easy access to camp memories from years past.
Swipe or use the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate through an album. Selecting a photo gives you a much larger view of that image, and from there, you can use the gray and white button (next to the yellow shopping cart button) for a menu of options including downloading of the photo to your computer. Use the shopping cart to order physical prints and photo gifts. The “star” icon in the upper left corner of the photo is a quick way to select favorites to save for later viewing, downloading, or ordering.
Campanion App
If you haven’t done so already, you can download the Campanion mobile app from the app store for access to many CampInTouch functions from your phone, including getting fun photo updates right to your phone. Downloads of photos are free using the Campanion App.
We are happy to answer questions or help in any way. We are available via or in the camp office, 828-692-0262. Please leave a message if we do not answer and we will return your call as soon as possible. We will reply to email as quickly as possible as well.
We feel very fortunate that you chose to share your son with us for two exciting weeks at camp. Friday, August 4th will be here quicker than the boys want it to be, and we are ready to make the most of their time with us!