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December 30, 2011 by Grant Bullard |
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Countdown to Camp!We are so excited because there are only 160 days until camp begins! The new year brings a renewed sense of pushing that camp train toward its destination set for June 8, 2012. We hope you’re on board. We will be out on the road in the weeks ahead to bring you our…
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December 13, 2011 by Grant Bullard |
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Dear Campers, Parents & Friends, Even though it’s a fairly warm day here at camp, true winter has been with us for a while. Leaves have been gathered, hydrangea’s have been trimmed and many projects have been started in preparation for the coming summer. We here at camp hope that you and your family are…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Here’s some video from Sat. and we’ll be posting more video later today and our final news. Enjoy! What a great session we just completed today for those of you that picked up your children for E Session. Thank you for sharing your children with us this past 8 days. …
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Dear Parents & Friends, Here’s some video from yesterday. Hope you enjoy! More to come in the PM. It’s been a wonderful last full day of Session E. We were able to get a group out of camp this afternoon for a bit of climbing up into Pisgah. These were our Main Camp climbers and…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Wow! It’s been a full day with lots going on at camp. The day started beautifully and ended a little wet but the fun never stops here and activities go right on. We’ve got lots of photos and some video that will be going up tomorrow so keep watching. Today was…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Here’s a short clip from our day with Mountainside Paddlers yesterday. Enjoy! Grant
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Dear Parents and Friends, I’m sorry we didn’t get any video up today. I just returned from a river trip with Mountainside and I’m just eating dinner at 9:30. I’ll upload some video escapades from today’s paddling trip tomorrow. I did have time to upload quite a few pictures taken today from the trip, so…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Here’s another short from yesterday and last night. Hope you enjoy! As you can see from the photos and video from yesterday, we barely scratched the surface of creek hiking. We were just offering a teaser to our wonderful creek that flows through the middle of GV. The photos you…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Here a short video from the morning. Hope you enjoy! Click on link below. Session E Day 2 from Gwynn Valley on Vimeo. We were able to put up another video today and hope you enjoyed the action it provides. It’s been another splendid day here and the weather has been…
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Parents & Friends, Thought you might enjoy a video glimpse of our morning. Enjoy! I hope you enjoyed the video that I put up earlier today. It’s just a short of our morning in and around the main part of camp. I literally just took a five minute jaunt around a small area. So…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It was a splendid day in the Valley. Thank you for dropping off your children and I hope that all of you made it safely to your home or other destination. We just finished dinner which was of course a child friendly meal of Macaroni and Cheese (super cheesy) vegis, grapes,…
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Main Camp Kayakers D Session This is video taken on Wed. Aug. 5th of D Session Main Camp Kayakers on the Green River. Click on link above.
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Dear Parents & Friends, What a great session we just completed today for those of you that picked up your children for D. Thank you for sharing your children with us this past 13 days. We’ve had a wonderful session and it was evident as we held our closing for Session D Friendship Campfire last…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a great day at camp with our last morning of sign-ups and our end of session pillowcase day at the pool. Tubing trips went out this morning as it was yet another very warm day here at camp. We just ended our day with Friendship campfire and had many…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Tajar Folly was what we awoke to this morning. As you can see there were kayaks on the Green along with some of our dining room tables as well as noodles from the pool where the Tajar spelled out his name. Let me help you parents with pronunciation of the Tajar’s…
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Dear Parents & Friends, As you can see we are celebrating International Day today and focusing on Poland, Russia and France. We have a staff member from each country, Monica, Elena and Camille in that order. Tonight’s campfire went into great detail about each country with songs, music and dance from campers and staff. There…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a perfect camp day here today. The weather couldn’t have been better. Sunny, bright and full of light with nary a cloud in the sky, well maybe a couple here and there. We had signups for the whole day today so everyone got to choose 4 activities. Stick weaving…
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Dear Parents & Friends, A cool evening here at camp that started out hot and muggy. It was Special Day today here at GV and that means no program, all specialness. The theme was in fact a “Theme Park”. The stations were set up so that campers could travel to anything they wanted in an…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a cooler day here and campfire just ended with the Hillsider’s coming to the Lodge for a little Mountain Dancing. We had them dance the Blue Bird Dance, the Hokey Pokey, Going to Kentucky, Circle Round My Zero, and the Patty Cake Polka. It was a lively dance to…
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Dear Parents & Friends, More campouts tonight and the perfect night for it. I would love to be by the fire tonight and way off in the woods making smores and telling stories. We just finished our campfire and the Brook came into the Lodge and danced while the Hillsider’s went to the Gatehouse Green…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Just a regular old beautiful day here at camp with no threat of rain and we have 11 cabins camping out tonight. It should be a starry, starry night. Our camp-out shelters are just that; three sided shelters with a wooden floor that’s up off the ground. Each shelter has a…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Greetings from the land down under. Today was New Zealand day or as we learned Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud). Campfire just finished outside the Gatehouse (office) as everyone sat on the hill underneath Playhouse and Mountain View. It was a holiday heme since they celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, and…
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Dear Parents and Friends, A sunny morning and early afternoon turned into a rainy late afternoon but camp goes on. Very few activities were affected with the exception of waterfront and sports. We move those campers indoors if it’s thundering and lightening. We played a new game in the Lodge today called GAGA (not to…
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Dear Parents & Friends, A great day for an opening of D Session and thank you for bringing such a great batch of campers. We hope you are safe and sound at your destination. We just finished our first night of cabin skits and will return tomorrow night to complete all the cabins on Hillside…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Thank you all for a great ending to our C, C-2 Session today. We’ve had a wonderful time with your children and will carry lots of good memories from those that were here for the 10 day and the 3 week session. Soon you will receive an evaluation via email, sent…
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Dear Parents & Friends, As we passed by the Asheville airport this afternoon around 5:15, the temperature registered 99 degrees. Thank goodness we were on a paddling trip today and kept the temps at bay. I had a great day with the Main Camp Kayakers. They did a great job and were certainly tested on…
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Dear Parents & Friends, We’re all back together in the Cove. All of Mountainside and Riverside adventures are back home and everyone had a fabulous time. You will be seeing photos as they are loaded over the next 24 hours. Some of the Pioneer photos are already up and ready for viewing. Mountain Bikers are…
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Dear Parents & Friends, This week is flying by and I can’t believe we’re just a few days away from the end of the session. It’s been a great day here, in fact, it was Australia Day. G-day Mate and all the other idioms that go along with that part of the world. We just…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a great day here at camp and many cabins are on campouts tonight and a good choice for those who went out. The weather was just perfect today with the right amount of sunshine and the occasional cloud. As I write tonight and look out of my office window…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a busy two days at camp and we had beautiful sunny skies today. It’s been a pleasant change from the overcast drizzle we’ve experienced at the end of the week. We just left our Sunday Service in the Lodge where the theme was “God’s Many Colors”. Many campers and…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Brrrrrr!!! It’s been a chilly day today at camp. It drizzled all morning and the temperature hovered around 76. Those that braved the water today had a treat waiting in the Lodge with a fire. We’ve had a warm fire going all day in the Lodge and it was big hit…
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Dear Parents & Friends, A cool and overcast day here was a welcome relief to the weather we’ve been having. For the next few days we’ll have cooler temps and will enjoy a break from the rain and humidity. Our first day of Discovery started today with the T,TH,S group. Tomorrow will be the first…
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Dear Parents & Friends, For those of you that dropped off your children today, I hope that you’re safe and sound and at your destination. Thanks for a wonderful opening day for the campers who are attending C-2. Even though it was a hot day, activities got off to a roaring start. Those campers who…
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Dear Parents & Friends, What a great session we just completed today for those of you that picked up your children for C-1. Thank you for sharing your children with us this past 10 days. We’ve had a wonderful session and it was evident as we held our closing for Session C-1 Friendship Campfire last…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Our last day for C-1 Session and it was a good one. I started off with a trip down the mighty French Broad with our Main Camp kayakers. You’ll find some photos from the day. It’s a good beginner section to tackle and our campers got their sea legs pretty quickly…
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Dear Parents and Friends,Sorry for the delay on the post. We have such full days here it’s sometimes hard to squeeze it all in. I just came from an Open House with the Riverside boys and Anne is hosting the girls. They’re all having a great time even though the climbing component was pretty much…
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Dear Parents & Friends, A bookend day like yesterday. Some sun, some rain, more mud and camp marches on. We’re marching on our belly’s as any army does. The food today was great and supper tonight saw many helpings of ginger stir fry chicken, mandarin oranges, fresh corn and bread. Today’s lunch was mash potatoes,…
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Dear Parents & Friends, No rain today and many cabins are having a successful campout tonight. Wood is wet and during dinner one counselor came to get me to help them with a fire. What is a campout without a roaring fire and smores. It was certainly not a one match fire considering the amount…
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Dear Parents & Friends, A rainy morning turning to sun and turning back to rain about 7:30 this evening. You can never really make a call on the weather around here. If you don’t like it just stick around and it will change. That’s what one ole timer told me years ago. We had a…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Happy belated 4th of July and yes we’re just about to wrap up our grand ole day here at camp. Campfire was held in the Lodge tonight but it was full of the twilight’s last gleaming. Our staff and many campers just finished a fantastic show that started with the beginning…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Happy 4th of July to all of you at home and hope you’re enjoying the Holiday. We will be celebrating the 4th tomorrow and wanted to get a day of camp under our belts before we went into celebration mode. We’ll have fireworks tomorrow night and children will be up a…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s a cool night here after a great opening of our C, C-1 Session. Many thanks for dropping off your children as we head right into the middle of our summer with a lot of returning campers as well as those who will experience Gwynn Valley for the first time. One…
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Dear Parents & Friends, By now many of you winging your way toward home and perhaps already there. What a nice group of children from session B. Thank you for sharing your children with us this past 13 days. Even 13 days goes much too quickly. It was a beautiful morning here and a perfect…
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B Session Mountain Biking Click above ^ to view link. Sorry to get this up late but here it is.
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Dear Parents & Friends, The last full day of Session B was spectacular. It was another beautiful day as far as the weather. Everyone soaked up the sunshine and enjoyed the moderate mountain temperatures. Some of today’s photos are from last night’s Tajar Ball. We haven’t loaded all the pics from today but they will…
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Dear Parents & Friends, What a beautiful day! We have a song we sing at camp that’s one of my favorites called “It’s a Beautiful Day”, and it certainly lived up to it today. It was our last full day of programming and we were all over the camp map going to the 4 points…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been another great sunny/showery day here at camp. We had a little extra long rest hour today because of thunder storms and rain which came up just as we were about to start afternoon activities. Everyone was in their cabin but afternoon trips and activities went out just a bit…
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Dear Parents and Friends, We just left the Lodge where our Fine Arts program presented 2 one act plays. All the children were amazing and everyone did a superb job. The campers wrote both plays and there was some pretty strong moral themes with both. “The Princess Brat” started off with one spoiled princess who…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Sesame Street came to life today at camp as we celebrated a very “Special Day” with visits from Big Bird, Elmo, the Cookie Monster, and Oscar. After a little bit of a sleep in and breakfast, activities started with cabin groups traveling to the different Sesame Street activities which included Bert…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s a cool night here at camp and tomorrow morning it will dip down to 60 or the high 50’s. That’s good sleeping weather up here. We had a shower earlier this evening just before dinner and that started the cool down. We stoked those little furnaces with Chili tonight at…
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Dear Parents and Friends, We started off with a rainy day this morning and it finally abated around 12 noon. Most activities went right on including sports, climbing, and all other outdoor activities. When it rains here you only get wet skin deep. We had a fire going in the Lodge this morning so folks…
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Dear Parents and Friends, It’s been another great day at camp. We had a thunder boomer this evening right after dinner which put a damper on 4 cabin campouts. Never fear, they will reschedule and make it happen. The day started off with a strong group of mountain bikers heading to the Hunt Farm to…
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Dear Parents and Friends, Today was UK Day here at camp and the Union Jack’s spirit filled us all day long. Who, none other than William Wallace showed up this morning to greet the loyal citizens of Gwynn Valley to try to enlist them to roll for freedom, roll for truth for Scotland. His men…
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Dear Parents and Friends, It’s been a most pleasant day here at camp. We dodged some scattered showerss and the sun was in and out all day long. Everyone had a productive day and the waterfront was a very busy place starting early in the morning, right up until dinner. Campers zipped, swam, learned new…
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Dear Parents and Friends, Opening Day was the best. Beautiful weather, great kids and smooth arrivals. Hope you all had a safe trip home. As I write I’m sure everyone is snuggled down in their camp beds after a very full day filled with the anticipation of returning to camp or coming for the first…
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Dear Parents & Friends, What a nice way to start our 76th summer of camping here at Gwynn Valley. Thank you for sharing your children with us this past 8 days. We’ve had a wonderful session and it was evident as we held our closing for Session A this morning. It’s been a beautiful day…
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Dear Parents and Friends, It’s been a full day at camp and unfortunately the last full day. We just finished our evening campfire program which is always called Friendship Campfire on the last night of camp. It’s been a great session and we celebrated that by showing many of the pictures that you all have…
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Dear Parents and Friends, A day without rain is a day full of sunshine. It was chilly here this morning with the temperature hovering around 56 degrees. That’s chilly but nice. By 10:30 the temps began to rise and so did the activity level. We had a wonderful breakfast with French toast, ham, pears, OJ…
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Dear Parents and Friends, What’s a day without a rain shower. Thankfully the past few days we’ve gotten all our rain when children have not been in activities. We thought it might not rain today but sure enough the heavens opened up just as the last activity bell rang today to end afternoon activities. The…
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Dear Parents and Friends, Another very special day here at GV. We just finished our evening campfire program which consisted of dancing and some play party games. Half the camp is on an overnight tonight and camped out on the near and far reaches of our GV world. Campfires are blazing and by this time…
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Dear Parents and Friends, The magic of camp has begun in our first full day of Session A. I just left campfire and the finale to our introduction skits. Camp is now quiet and is well on its way to sleep as we had some great times today. It was our first full day of…
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Parents & Friends, What a great opening day here at Gwynn Valley. Parents and campers arrived this morning after long drives and eager smiles. Everyone settled into their cabins and then off to lunch for a wonderful buffet of good food from our Kitchen. After lunch it was off to the Lodge for a bit…
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Making new friends at camp is one of those bonus aspects found under “the benefits of camp”. Some friendships that last a lifetime start right here during the summer. The other benefits are numerous to just mention a few. Traditional organized camping is in its 150th year and has become a part of the fabric…
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Every parent wants their child’s first stay away from home to be successful and a good first summer camp experience can be a springboard to so many other positive aspects in their lives. When will my child be ready for an overnight camp, is a question often asked as families explore residential camping. Children are…
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February 21, 2011 by Grant Bullard |
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Our road trips to promote camp are coming to an end over the next couple of weeks. I’ve seen a lot of new faces and many old campers from those trips throughout the southeast. Andy has also been on the road and just returned from Tennessee and Kentucky. We greeted many prospective camper families, dispensed…
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February 1, 2011 by Grant Bullard |
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There is that great adage that says, “those who precede us”. Well in this case it’s a big brother. One of the true joys of camp is sharing it with a sibling. Many stories are told at the dinner table about life as a camper and younger siblings usually have to wait to experience it…
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January 11, 2011 by Grant Bullard |
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December 21, 2010 by Grant Bullard |
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It’s just a few days before our Holiday weekend here at camp. The grass is the field looking out from my office is showing again after almost of week of being covered with snow. It’s been very cold at camp and snow still lingers on all the north slopes that don’t get sunlight. More snow…
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November 29, 2010 by Grant Bullard |
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We hope everyone is doing well and had a good Thanksgiving Holiday. We’re headed toward the next big part of the season which celebrates several major holidays. Just around the corner starting Dec. 1st is Hanukkah, then Christmas on the 25th and then Kwanzaa on Dec. 26th. We wish you all the best for these…
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September 29, 2010 by Grant Bullard |
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As leaves begin to fall and our mountain weather changes for the arriving season, my thoughts turn to the land on which we host all the campers and staff each summer here at Gwynn Valley. Our appreciation of the land goes deep throughout the program as we venture down to farm and dive into the…
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September 10, 2010 by Grant Bullard |
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Thanks for coming to camp campers and thank you parents, for sharing your children this summer. We had a great summer here at camp and are looking forward to 2011 with great anticipation. Applications are starting to roll in and don’t wait too late to get yours in before your session fills. As the…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Camp is way too quiet. All the campers have gone and most of our staff have said their farewells. Our E Session campers really ended our summer on such a good note. We thank you for allowing us to be a part of their lives for the last eight days and…
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Dear Parents & Friends, I missed providing an update for you all last night because I had some time off. Anne and I took just a few hours to spend with our family last night, have a nice dinner at the house and then enjoy one another’s company after dinner. I’m sure you got a…
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Dear Parents & Friends, The simple joys of camp abound here today from the photos I’ve been looking at. I must confess that I’ve been with the Mountainside paddlers all day until just after 8:00 tonight. More about that later. What could be simpler than jump rope on the Green. How often to you see…
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Dear Parents & Friends, I can hardly believe that we only have three days left in this session. It’s going way too fast and can we just add another week and keep them a little longer. It’s a great group of children we have and many new to GV and a very young camp this…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Another great day for E session at Gwynn Valley. We just finished our campfire for those not camping out tonight at various places on the property. Those who camped out also cooked dinner out over an open fire. At this hour they are all asleep after having sat around the campfire…
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Dear Parents & Friends, A splendid day here at GV just ended with campfire and the finishing touches from cabin skits. We had quite a lot of rain just before dinner tonight and it rained so hard that many cabins couldn’t hear the bell. It did cool things down a bit and after supper activities…
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Dear Parents & Friends,We hope you all had a safe trip home or to another destination if you were going elsewhere. Many of you were here this morning when the electricity went off and one our transformers blew on the Hillside. Our power was off until 5:00 this afternoon and only through quick thinking and…
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Dear Parents & Friends, As we wind down today I want to thank you for sharing your children with us this past session. We will miss the joy that comes from our campers who have been here for several years as well as the new ones which just experienced their first year. We’ve had a…
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Dear Parents & Friends, A bright and sunny day here at camp for our last full day of D. Clouds and thunder threatened several times but it didn’t rain. I was on the river with Mountainside most of the day and returned to camp about 3:00 today. Upon returning I headed over to the pool…
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Dear Parents & Friends, We’ve got the best group of SIT’s this session. If you don’t know what an SIT is, it’s a Staff in Training. These folks are all previous campers and all are entering either the 11th or 12th grade. Their leader who is Erin and hails from New Zealand came up with…
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Dear Parents & Friends, I’ve spent the whole day with Mountainside Paddlers today with the exception of meals. What a pleasure it’s been. This morning I worked with the group on the lake getting them ready for their adventure coming up next week. This afternoon we ran a section of the French Broad that has…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Some days are just so busy that you don’t have time to turn around. Yesterday was one of those days and I apologize for not getting a blog up. We had a very exciting day for Special Day yesterday. It was a Disney theme and gathered aspects from many great Disney…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a cooler day here after a hot one yesterday. Sorry for not blogging, as I was on a day off. Spending a day away from camp is like spending a week away in our regular lives. So much goes on here each day and a good bit of energy…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Another great day for D session at Gwynn Valley. We just finished our campfire for Brookside campers , however many of them are camping out tonight at this hour and I’m sure are sitting around the campfire after a meal and some smores. What is a campfire without smores. I’m always…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s Twilight Play tonight here at camp. There are quite a few cabins on cookouts and campouts tonight so a good many people didn’t make it to the dining room. They will do their dining around the campfire. It’s a good night to campout because we had a shower during signups…
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Dear Parents & Friends, We’re getting a well timed shower just after the campers have left the Lodge from International Day which celebrated Australia and Brazil. A great campfire tonight complete with slides, dancing, storytelling and music. I love Tuesday’s at camp because we learn so much about the rest of the world. Leon, who…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s cooled off a bit after a brief shower this evening. Our first full day of camp brought a host of new activities and campers joining in to make it a super first day. The climbing wall was extremely busy this morning with Mountainside and Riverside there. Riverside was working on…
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Dear Parents and Friends, Opening Day was the best. Beautiful weather, great kids and smooth arrivals. Hope you all had a safe trip home. As I write I’m sure most everyone is snuggled down in their camp beds after a very full day filled the anticipation of returning to camp or coming for the first…
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Dear Parents & Friends, As we wind down today I want to thank you for sharing your children with us this past session. This is our 75th summer serving children at Gwynn Valley and the summer to the point has been terrific. We will miss the joy that comes from our campers who have been…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a full day at camp and unfortunately the last day of the session. We just finished our evening campfire program which is always called Friendship Campfire on the last night of camp. It’s been a great session and we celebrated that by showing many of the pictures that you…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Tonight we celebrated the Tajar’s Birthday with a cookout, games, hayrides and of course everyone in costume. We all just left the Lodge from an evening of magic and a short play written by the campers about Merlin and his children who run into a heap of trouble as they travel…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been one heck of a day here at camp. Today was UK day starting out with William Wallace’s crew (of Braveheart fame) running the English Lords out of Scotland by descending from the woods and taking the Green to declare their independence. From there it was all uphill complete with…
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Dear Parents & Friends, We’re still having some problems with the e-camp software and weren’t able to load all the pics tonight. Hopefully we’ll get this worked out in the next day or two. Bear with us. I just returned from taking the Mountainside Bikers a spare bike. They were having some mechanical issues with…
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Dear Parents & Friends, As you’ve probably seen on the web site, we’re experiencing upload problems with the e-camp software. For several days it’s been acting up and we were unable to load photos from today. We’ll keep trying through the evening because we’ve got some great shots from the day. Today was “special day”…
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Dear Parents & Friends, It’s been a beautiful day here at Gwynn Valley with a little thunder but no rain to speak of. Program went on all day long with no delays. I was on a day off yesterday and that’s why there was no blog. My son’s birthday was also yesterday so it was…
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Dear Parents & Friends, Another glorious day here at camp with clear skies and warm temps. Tonight is Twilight Play when after supper activities are extended into the evening. It’s a great time to take part in some activities that you maybe haven’t participated in or want to spend a bit more time in. There…
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Dear Parents and Friends, Thanks for such a smooth opening day for C-2 Session. The weather was perfect and everyone at this hour is visiting with the sandman. Serenade was a couple of hours ago and that’s a time when our staff go around to each cabin to let them know it’s time for lights…
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