June 8, 2011
Winter’s Rhythm & a Camp Contest
I really loved knitting this capelet. Did you see the latest issue of Vogue Knitting – so many cute capelet/cape patterns. I’m thinking I will enjoy wearing this in the fall, out and about, as well as in the evenings when I’m sitting and knitting or reading and just a bit chilly. And the nice thing about this – the colorwork is all achieved by slipping stitches. You never knit two colors in a single row. Easy! The pattern is Winter’s Rhythm by Kelly Jensen. I made the larger size and used 3 skeins each of 2 different colors of Three Irish Girls Cashmerino Worsted. I think it would also be beautiful in Madelinetosh Vintage, Dream in Color Classy, Malabrigo Worsted, or Cascade 220. I like the collar points in front, but you can see that by just turning the capelet a half-turn right or left, you get an asymmetrical collar look. (Check the photos on the pattern link.)
If you read Friday’s blog post, then you know all about this summer’s Camp Loopy. I hope you’re participating with us! For today’s Camp Contest, tell us if you have a favorite camp that you (or your kids) attended. If you didn’t attend any, you can enter the contest by just saying that – you didn’t go to camp. I’ll randomly draw 5 names from today’s blog comments, to win a copy of this Winter’s Rhythm pattern. Growing up, I went to Camp Barakel in Michigan, Camp Conestoga in Iowa, Honey Rock Camp in Wisconsin, and Castaway Club in Minnesota. Castaway was my favorite. How about you?
Sheri wantingcoldweathersothatIcanwearmycapelet
Betty said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:00 am
Boo hoo, I never went to camp, missed out on all the fun.
Betty
Bonney said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:04 am
I went to Hilltop Ranch in Maryland and it really might be the most fun anyone could ever have. (After I got over being homesick!)
Sue Johnson said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:17 am
I went to Lutherdale Bible Camp and Manitowish Waters, both in Wisconsin. Loved going to camp!
Lise said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:35 am
I never went to camp as a kid but I did go as chaperone for two days to my childrens church camp at Laguna beach in Panama City, Florida, right on the beach. Loved the classes and speakers but hated the sleepIng and showers. Enjoyed the girls and know why they love to go but I’ll pass from now on. Still go pick them up on Saturday for a fun family shopping trip before heading home.
Betty said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:36 am
I went to two different Girl Scout camps as a kid. Both are in the Santa Cruz mountains. One was Skylark Ranch and the othre was Hidden Falls.
Irene said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:42 am
Hi – I went to Camp Tanglewood on Long Island when I was a kid. It is long gone, but the memories are not
Jennifer said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:42 am
As a kid, I went to my church’s summer camp in Missouri where the mosquitos were as big as the bald eagles. I had a great time and every time anyone sprays OFF, I instantly think back to those hot humid nights.
But my FAVORITE camp happened as an adult. I went to Sock Camp put on by an independent yarn dyer and OH MY YARNESS- was it fun!!! (without any mosquitos!!)
KarenS said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:47 am
I never went to camp and was o.k. with that. Camping and the great outdoors=not my thing.
Jennifer said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:49 am
When I was a kid I attended Pepperhill Farm Day Camp and absolutely loved it! They had farm animals that we helped out with in the mornings, horsemanship, horseback riding, canoeing, ceramics, swimming, archery, scary woods walks, paddle boats. So much stuff going on there. I can’t imagine what it is like now 30 years later and I can’t wait to send my little ones.
Debi said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:54 am
I went to Camp McLean in Burlington WI, Camp Edwards WI, and Church camp that I cant remember where, I was in about 5th grade. I loved Camp McLean YMCA camp so much I made sure my son and step daughters went also. I also went to Knitting camp and loved it to.
karen said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:00 am
Never went to camp…my boys went to various soccer camps over the years at colleges up and down the East Coast.
Carol in Zion, IL said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:01 am
During the summer months, I looked forward every year to Girl Scout camp at Atwoods. Funny, I have no idea where it is (somewhere in IL is all I know). I loved to go, and was always sad when it was over.
Elizabeth said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:04 am
I went to YMCA camp, first as a camper and then as a counselor. I would love to go to knitting camp.
Em said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:12 am
My eldest daughter (She’s the one in the loopy sweater in the photo I sent to the gallery…) went to a nature adventure camp, and had lots of fun climbing things, riding things, jumping and falling off things. I had to wash her clothes three times to get all the clay mud out!
Linda M Hebb said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:12 am
I went to Girl Guide camp and church camps. The best was a national girl guide camp in Quebec when I was about 14. I would also like sometime to go to knitting camp.
Karen said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:14 am
I never went to camp but back then I didn’t want to. Now I’d love to.
Nadine said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:19 am
I have never been to Summer Camp because my grandpa had a log cabin in the woods and I had a private camp with friends.
Jeannie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:21 am
When I was in high school, the dance team team that I was on went to camp at a large university. It was so much fun and we felt pretty cool being on a college campus.
Lani said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:21 am
I went to Girl Scout camp in southern California and Virginia. Both were great experiences. I also camped with the sixth graders I was teaching in Juneau, Alaska. That was a very different experience!
Kathleen said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:22 am
I never went to camp as a child. My parents were hotel people, sleep outdoors–never. As an adult I took my children camping, never go away camp, always as a family. Favorite camp spot was Rangely Lake State Park, just beautiful.
Robin F. said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:27 am
When I was a kid I got to go to Girl Scout Camp Quidnunc for 2 weeks in the summer. No one else I knew went to sleep away camp. It was really special. I was 10 the first time I went and I learned to swim. Growing up in NYC there wasn’t a place to swim. It was wonderful to be in the mountains for a city kid like me.
Ana said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:31 am
I’ve been nostalgic for the girl scout camp I used to go to, Camp Seven Hills, in Holland, NY. This whole camp thing is making it worse, but also making me consider if I’d be able to go back and be a counselor again, now that my career is moving towards academia. I miss it!
Joyce said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:31 am
I went to Girl Scout Camp a couple of years. The main thing I remember about it was getting stung by a bee–probably not the best memory!
Jean said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:36 am
I have never been to camp. I think I missed out on a great experience.
Shelley said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:42 am
I spent my summers at Camp Chippewa Bay near Eau Claire WI. It was the girl scout camp for dupage county IL. I remember always being super homesick the first week and then not wanting to leave near the end.
Julie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:46 am
I went to several different Girl Scout camps as a kid, including one in Italy when my dad was stationed there (Army). As an adult, I have chaperoned a couple of church camp trips, but it wasn’t really camping (slept in dorms, no campfire cooking!). I would love to someday attend that Sock Camp out on the west coast!
Katherine said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:46 am
I never went to camp. Although I think I might have gone to a day camp one year – obviously not very memorable! Which is why I think I’m attracted to Camp Loopy so much.
Margie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:47 am
I went to church camp for several years and then to CampFire Girls camp the last year. I finally persauded my mother that I really, really hated camp and she should save her $$. None of them were co-ed and I have to say that between the two, church camp was the wildest. Kinda fun in retrospect but not at the time.
Wasie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:51 am
Cute cape!!!
Wasie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:54 am
Oh and I never went to camp, but my girls did. They loved Camp Briarwood–a Lutheran church camp here in Texas.
Anna Devine said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:01 am
I have just today decided to “go Camping!” with Camp Loopy, my project being Wendy Johnson’s Seriously Simple Shawl done in two complementary shades of ….some yarn.
As a teen, I went to Camp NaCoMe here in Tennessee, which was a blast–we had cabins and bunks, rather than tents & sleeping bags; and we had an actual mess hall with real cooks & REAL FOOD (the best biscuits I’ve ever eaten; after breakfast we’d all stuff our pockets with the leftover biscuits smeared with honey & wrapped in tinfoil). The summer after my last visit there, the dock on the pond was rebuilt, and a whole nest of copperheads was found in the piling! Good times….
Vicki said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:03 am
I never went to camp as a child but our son went to Boy Scout Camp and our daughter went to Black Rock Camp.
Sarah said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:04 am
I went to Camp Miller in MN and some other camp in Iowa that I can’t remember the name of. That one was only for three nights.
Joni said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:14 am
City sponsored day camp and a few times at girl scout camp were the only official camps I went to when I was a kid, but as a family we did lots of tent camping. Love how your caplet came out, but I wonder if it might not be too warm for Texas.
Kristi ~ Ohio said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:19 am
I went to 6th Grade Camp when I lived in California. It was a week long camp during
6th grade. It was held at Twenty Nine Palms — I think. It was so much fun. I love your capelet.
duckgirlterri said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:20 am
I never went to formal camp, but I was fortunate to spend the summers of my childhood at our cabin on Payette Lake, north of Boise. We left home the week after school got out and didn’t really come home until a couple of weeks before school started. Mom didn’t work in the summers so it was great and Dad came up on his days off. We spent our days swimming, waterskiing, playing in the woods, horseback riding, riding our bikes, and picking huckleberries. Now that I’m an adult, I realize how very lucky I was.
Susan said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:21 am
I went to girl scout day camp one summer, where I realized that I am not the camping sort. Camp Loopy is a much more suitable camp for me – no bugs, no tents, and lots of yarn!
suzanne said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:21 am
My girls went to whispering pines girl scout camp, they loved it
BFF Liz said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:25 am
Ugh, we had two days of camp in sixth grade. It was hot, I was with a lot of girls I didn’t know, the food sucked, the path to the outhouse was dark and full of painful gravel, and the outhouse itself was spider-ridden. I did get to ride a horse for a few minutes, though. It was scary and wonderful. The horse was named Pearl, and she was a biter. Heck, I’d be a biter, too, if I had to deal with a bunch of screaming 12-year-olds all the time.
Clearly, some of us are built for camping and some of us are built for air conditioning and indoor plumbing. When the zombie apocalypse comes, I’m going over to their side, since I’m not suited for scrambling for survival.
Jody said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:32 am
Wow, when were you at Camp Barakel? I went there also, and also went to Bible camp at Lake Ann over by Interlochen! What a small world! I also am a veteran of Girl Scout camps at Hilltop just outside of Ann Arbor, and day camps at the old Susterka Swim Club near Belleville, MI. Our son & daughter both went to YMCA Storer Camp at Napoleon, MI for a couple of summers, and when our son reached high school, he went to Blue Lake Fine Arts camp for 3 summers and loved every minute of it. I wouldn’t trade those summer memories for anything!
Anna Devine said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:33 am
Back again, to let you know what yarn I’ll be using: Loopy Ewe Solids in ICE and SERENITY GREEN — this will be perfectly warm for Fall, but will also be handy for our on-again-off-again AC in the office, and the colors are really quite summery.
Patti said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:39 am
Growing up I went to The Salvation Army camp in Missouri. It was so much fun playing in the creek, because we couldn’t swim on Sunday. The rest of the time we could swim in the lake. Today the camp has a big swimming pool with alot of things to play with, But I enjoyed the lake. They had camp fire everynight, with singing and crazy games. It was so much fun.
Lilie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:41 am
Never went to a camp but did camp around the Rocky Mountains in Canada.
Mona said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:42 am
I never went to camp.
Amy M. said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:46 am
I was signed up for camp when I was 10 and I broke my arm in May. Camp cancelled! Still sad that I missed out.
Excited about Camp Loopy this summer! Thanks for taking us to virtual knitting camp!
Chris said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:51 am
I went to a girl scout camp that I completely forgot about until just now. (Guess that comes with age!) I do remember learning how to build a fire using sticks, twigs, and leaves, and learning the proper way to hold and use a pen knife. I remember the one huge main room where we all slept on cots and how one night I had to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom. I was afraid to go to the outside bathrooms by myself and I was afraid to wake any of the counselors, so I (snicker) went in the kitchen sink and then scrubbed the sink out. (RELAX, it was only #1)
Maureen said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:00 am
There were 8 kids in our family-no camp for us but we used to go to my grandmother’s place in the Adirondacks-we called that camp. Between our 8 and my aunt’s 4 kids it was kind of like a camp.
claire said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:05 am
I went to camp one summer when we lived in Virginia, probably 1957. It was near a river and I remember finding fossil shark’s teeth in the mud when we were swimming, which was awesome. I remember making one of those goofy plastic lariat things, but beyond that, I don’t remember a thing. The name of the camp was weird, something like Ycomoco. I wonder if it’s still there.
I want to participate in Camp Loopy and do Stripe Study shawl or the Lakedale shawl, but need to get multiple socks finished first.
Mandy B. said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:08 am
Never got to go to camp as a child, but a lot of the stitch retreats I go to are held at church camps. I’ve learned that I’m so claustrophobic I can’t sleep on the bottom bunk :-/
Desi said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:16 am
Never went to camp as a child but I volunteered 5 summers at the Muscular Dystrophy Camp here in west Michigan at Sherman Lake and Indian Trails.
TMTTYRR said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:23 am
I always wanted to go to camp. My friends all went to camp. Mama wouldn’t let me go. In retrospect, with my graceful nature () it’s probably better that way. She finally broke down and let me go to Girl Scout Day Camp in the next town over. I had a ball!
I think we need Camp Loopy T-Shirts.
Pam said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:27 am
I loved Camp Shoshone in Rollinsville, Colorado. It was owned by a St. Louis family (I’m an old St. Louisan) and lots of STL girls over the years took the train west. Horses, trail riding, camping out, the great Colorado sky and stars. Perfect.
Jane said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:39 am
My dad was into Boy Scouts big time and I went to camp with him when I was 6. I got to sleep in a tiny camping trailer and thought that was the neatest thing I had ever seen. I also remember him being covered in poison ivy, something that I didn’t react to back then, but sure do now.
Ashleigh said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:39 am
I never went to camp
Christy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:42 am
I went to many camps growing up, mainly Girl Scout camps, but my favorite was Valley View Ranch in Cloudland Georgia, a girls camp for riding horses. I forget how many years I went there, something like 8 or 9, but it was such a blast!
Paula said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:01 am
I went to a number of different church camps as a child/young adult. My favorite was the Rickman Conference Center near Jeff City, MO. I went as a counselor several years. My least favorite was Camp Pershing – no hot water and fairly rustic. I am not much for camping and really prefer staying at hotels, B & Bs or with friends.
Cindy in Happy Valley said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:09 am
I was a “camp” counselor one summer at our local elementary school. I made a lot of crafts that year, and took 25 screaming children to Star Wars! Yes, I was mad, why do you ask?
Seanna Lea said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:22 am
I never went to any summer camp, but my family lived in campgrounds each summer growing up. One of the best (which I, of course, cannot remember the name) had both a normal pool and a diving pool. We stopped going to that campground just when I was finally old enough to go to the diving pool unsupervised.
Mary said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:25 am
I didn’t go to “camp” but did grow up in Denver, and EVERY SINGLE family vacation ever (summer OR winter!) when I was a child meant we were camping. Usually tent camping out of the car, but sometimes we backpacked to more remote spots. Made for some great memories, but then I always wished we went on “normal” vacations like my friends LOL
Cyndi said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:27 am
I never went to summer camp but my family did go camping every summer. Loved fishing, swimming & wandering in the woods!
Lauren said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:33 am
I loved camp so much, I still work there! Highlands Camp in Allenspark, CO was my childhood haunt, and after a few summers there, I now work year-round at Camp Sealth on Vashon Island, WA.
Michelle said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:53 am
I went to Camp Jericho in grade school and mostly didn’t like it but I did learn to float on my back in the little lake. I much preferred the ballet/dance camps I did in high school!
Toni said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:04 pm
I went to a bible camp when I was young. I remember how much fun our counselors were, swimming in a huge pool, and a really fun night time hay ride. On our last night, they set up a Wheel of Fortune type game, and we had a blast. That was the only time I ever got to go, and I’ll always remember it fondly.
I feel you on the cicadas, too. Oddly enough, there don’t seem to be as many of them here in the woods as there are in the city, but the decibel level outside our door is still pretty high. I downloaded a decibel app for my iPod just so I could check it out! I am seeing a lot of dead ones now, so maybe they are almost done mating/dying.
Kim said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:13 pm
I never had the opportunity to go camping when I was little. Now my family and I go ever so often. It’s nice to get away from the city now and then.
Cheryl said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:17 pm
Growing up I went to Red Cross Camp for 6 years in southern Michigan. The first year I went as a camper the last 5 years I went as a counselor. For some reason the camp was never in the same place two years in a row until the last 2 years but for the life of me I can’t remember where it was. Can you tell we rode a bus and I didn’t have to drive? Or maybe it’s my sometimer’s disease. (Sometimes I Remember that is.)
julie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:20 pm
I went to Girl Scout camp in Virginia, was a great experience as a young girl.
Debbie M said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:20 pm
I attended Round Lake Christian Assembly in Loudon, OH, for eight years.
Nancy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:21 pm
I just went to church camp in Kansas for a week every summer.
Beth said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:32 pm
Several years ago I attended a knitting camp at Medomak Retreat Center in Maine. It was great. Food was wonderful…Lobster and eggs one morning. Also found a great winery and yarn shops. Enjoyable knitting time and classes too
Debbie Goedtel said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:45 pm
I went to Camp Trowbridge near Vergas, MN.
“Come to Camp Trowbridge where the breezes blow.
Come to Camp Trowbridge where we swim and row.
Answer, the ever, luring call.
Come to Camp Trowbridge, the best of all.”
Somehow, it’s missing something without the music….
Debbie
Joyce said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:48 pm
I went to Camp Lookout in Montrose, Iowa for a week each summer between the ages of 7 and 17. I was a Counselor there those last two years. I have such fond memories of the place…..some of the best days of my childhood!
Teresa said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:50 pm
As a kid, I went to Girl Scout camp once. Didn’t like it. All the grown-ups were mean.
As an adult, I went to two different cello camps. Loved ‘em both! (Okay, so we didn’t sleep in tents or make s’mores, but it was still called cello CAMP.)
Deb said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:51 pm
The only camp I got to attend as a kid was Brownie/Girl Scout Day Camp unfortunately. But I got to go as a chaperone with my daughter’s sixth grade class to Camp Orkila on Orcas Island in the San Juans! What a great week that was!
janna said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:55 pm
I went to horse camp in 6th grade. This summer, I have a high schooler going to 2 weeks of language camp and a college junior headed out next week to be a counselor at a camp for special needs kids.
Jill said,
June 8, 2011 @ 12:57 pm
Love the capelet!
I went to girl scout camp in Michigan (Camp Anna Behrends). I loved it once I got over being away from Mom and Dad. My kids to to the YMCA camp. They go for a week at a time, during the day, and still sleep at home everynight. They love it.
Hannah said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
I went to camp once as a teenager. It was sponsored by the Hungarian Scouting Association of New Jersey (to which I belonged). The camp was in Upstate New York. That was where I learned how to sing so many beautiful camp songs all in Hungarian.
Christine said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:02 pm
I went to Camp Zoe ( MO ) I got homesick. My oldest son went to Camp Wayfarer, Flat Rock, NC, loved it! My younger son went to Cub Creek Science Camp ( Rolla, MO ) and another one in MO can’t remember name!
Maria said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:17 pm
Yay for Minnesota camps! My kids go to Lake Geneva Christian Center near Alexandra. My favorite camp….Sock Camp with Blue Moon Fiber Arts!
marina said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:23 pm
i never got to go to real camps when i was a kid, just sleep overs for girlscouts. i would love to go to sock camp though sometime in the future!
Wendy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:24 pm
When I was a kid, we always spent vacations at a rustic (a nice way of saying run-down) cabin on a lake in central Massachusetts owned by my grandmother. We called it “camp.” Actually that was the term everyone used for their summer houses in that area. We’d say we were going “up to camp.” “Camp” for me will forever mean that little cabin on the lake!
Sarah Warburton said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:29 pm
Camp Alleghany in Lewisburg, West VA
Laura said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:38 pm
Awww, I don’t remember the camps I went to! Just short 5-day trips. I remember camping with the Girl Scouts, overnight trips to local state parks. (No hotdogs for us, my mother was a champion at creating meals in aluminum foil to be cooked over a fire! I was a counselor at Camp… Farnsworth? in New Hampshire one summer… that was interesting.
Oh, I do remember, when I was (I think) 14 we went up to the boundary waters of Minnesota, we canoed out on the lakes (complete with portages) and were completely cut off from the world for three days. It was heavenly.. we saw moose, bald eagles… we drank water directly from the lake (when it was deep enough) and cooked over an open fire. There were bears (which we avoided) and racoons and all sorts of wonderful woodland creatures. That would definitely be my favorite camping trip of all time
I miss camping, the husband is not outdoorsy. I went on a star-gazing camping trip last year and thoroughly loved it.
Kathy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:40 pm
never went to camp, always wanted to go to one for horseback riding or art. We had to be content with camping in the backyard till we got too hungry or scared of nighttime sounds, then rushed back in the house.
Kelly said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:46 pm
As a kid I didn’t go to camp. But I did go camping…you know the kind…trees and campfires and a tent and sleeping bags!!!…that is still my favorite kind of camp!!
Linda said,
June 8, 2011 @ 1:48 pm
I never went to camp, as summers were spent riding and showing horses and getting 4-H projects ready for the county and state fairs.
Roxanne said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:06 pm
I didn’t go to any formal camps while I was a kid, but I did camp out in the Wallowa Mountains a few times during my teenage years. My first (and only) attempt at water skiing was at Wallowa Lake. One minute, I was sitting on the dock. The next, I was holding on to the handle for dear life as the boat dragged me through the water.
Anita said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:07 pm
The only camp I ever went to – 4H camp between 2-3 grades. Mosquito bites on practically every spot on my legs!
Sarah/Scienceprincess said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:10 pm
I never went to camp, but my grandparents had a cottage on the shore of Lake Michigan where we would always go for a week or two every summer. Some of my best memories are climbing the big sand dune (Pulpit rock) and changing the course of the tiny stream that flowed across the lake to the beach.
Anita said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:19 pm
Easy easy peasy……Hoosier Basketball Camp, Lake James, Angola, Indiana. Run by David McCracken, son of legendary Indiana University basketball coach Branch McCracken who led the Hurryin’ Hoosiers to two NCAA championships, 1940 & 1953. Yes, I am a knitting tomboy…..
Amy Mac said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:24 pm
4H camp in Nebraska growing up! Loved it
Cindy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:26 pm
I never went to camp! Maybe that is why I’m so excited about Camp Loopy?! Nah… it’s because of Sheri and her compelling ideas!
PattyV said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:34 pm
my parents didn’t know about sending kids to camp!
tabitha said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:40 pm
I never went to camp. I lived so far in the middle of nowhere that people came to my house to camp.
Jody said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:40 pm
I never went to summer camp, much to my dismay. I did go to a couple of weekend Girl Scout camps though.
Lulynn said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:46 pm
As a kid I went to Church camp in Texas and Oklahoma. My first camp I learned to swim. It was always fun. I was a Blue Bird and then a Girl Scout- I know they are different organizations- but that is how it was I might have been a Brownie, but regardless never went to those camps.
Love the capelet and am anxious to attend Camp Loopy!
Mary said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:46 pm
I went to St Rita’s camp in Columbus, Ohio in the early 1960s.
kandice force said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:48 pm
I went to camp Sherman which was a Girl Scout camp every year.
Jackie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:48 pm
I only went to church camp. It was enjoyable tho..
Kathryn said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:49 pm
I went to YMCA camp and to FOP camp (Fraternal Order of Police) and loved it! My kids have also gone to YMCA camp and horseback riding camps. I would LOVE to go to a knitting camp!
Heather said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:50 pm
I met my husband at Boy Scout camp while we were at a week training for being counselors. The camp is in Nebraska, my husband was is from IL and I’m from WI. Today we celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary.
Marcia said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:54 pm
Camp Ewalu in Strawberry Point, Iowa. Loved it!!!
Cherie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:56 pm
One week at a church camp in northern Missouri was a highlight of every summer as a child.
Amy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 2:56 pm
No camp for me, but I did spend several weeks in the summer at my grandparents cottage near Hayward, WI.
Lauren said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:00 pm
Heh, you probably won’t know where I’m talking about, but Woodside in Adelaide, South Australia were my camping grounds when I was growing up
Meg said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:09 pm
Camp Wabasso represent!
I loved my 2 weeks every summer on Blaisdell Lake in Bradford NH. I learned horseback riding and canoeing there! And of course made the obligatory mile and a half of gimp lanyards. Fun times!
Linda said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:09 pm
I used to go to church camp every summer in the mountains of New Mexico. We had a week of study and fun, and I wouldn’t have missed it for anything.
Karen said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:16 pm
The truth is, I went to a couple different camps when I was a kid and hated it. Absolutely HATED camping. To the nth degree.
Now? when I go camping with the hubby? I actually rather like it. Wierd.
Jennifer said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:18 pm
I went to a church camp calledWest View On the James in Southern Virginia.
Faith said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:32 pm
I went to one camp in Connecticut. Camp Mohawk. But, judging by my history, my favorite camp is Camp Loopy.
grace said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:53 pm
I never had the opportunity to go to camp although my sisters did!
rohanknitter said,
June 8, 2011 @ 3:55 pm
I got to go to camp one year when I was in high school – because I had a job and could pay for it. It was called Camp Paradise up in Michigan and I LOVED it. (even though I’m not really the camping type) Tons of fun and more stars at night than I’d ever seen in my life!!
Molli Merriweather said,
June 8, 2011 @ 4:04 pm
Many Many years ago I attended Girl Scout Camp in Hardy, Arkansas. Really enjoyed it except when we camped in Heifer Heaven. It rained the two days we were out there. The rest of the time we were in cabins. Plus they made the best cooked apples.
Christine said,
June 8, 2011 @ 4:15 pm
I never went to camp as a kid, just played in the woods out back all summer.
mary said,
June 8, 2011 @ 4:18 pm
I am not a camp kind kind of girl.I went to Camp Hiawela in Wisconsin and hated being that close to nature .Spiders scared me ! We did send our son to a great camp in Bemidji ,Minnesota called Camp Thunderbird.He went from age 10 to being a CIT at age 17.He learned invaluable skills that certainly wouldn’t have come from me !
kathy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 4:21 pm
One of my most vivid memories of Girl Scout camp was joining in the Polar Bear swim. The water was freezing and took your breath away!!!! It really is a great time to be young and have the camping experience.
Robin said,
June 8, 2011 @ 4:21 pm
I never went to camp, however my family did a lot of camping when I was growing up. We had the best time fishing and swimming during the day, and roasting marshmallows, making s’mores, and “fruit pies” by the fire in the evenings.
Oraxia said,
June 8, 2011 @ 4:33 pm
Only went to camp once. There were two opportunities to go to Camp Erdman (sp?) at school, but the first time my mother deemed me “too young” to go, so I was super super excited to finally get to go… and then I fractured my arm the day before we were supposed to leave. I only got to spend one night as the result, and I spent most of it climbing in and out of my top bunk (with a cast) chasing the 1-2″ cane spiders out of the girls’ cabin–apparently I was the only one who wasn’t busy screaming and hiding every time one was discovered in the bathroom or elsewhere :/
Jen said,
June 8, 2011 @ 5:27 pm
I used to beg to go to camp as a kid but I never got to go. I make up for it now by taking my kids camping several times each summer.
Beth said,
June 8, 2011 @ 5:58 pm
My 22 yo daughter and I are driving from Texas to WA for her summer job as a camp counselor at Tall Timber Presbyterian Church…it’ll be a fun road trip!
Alice said,
June 8, 2011 @ 6:03 pm
When I was a kid, I went to lots of “Girls Camps” with church, but I wasn’t ever really that into it. Last year I went as the “Craft Lady” to Swift Base at the S Bar F Scout Ranch – it was AMAZING! And I got a lot of knitting done…
Debbie H said,
June 8, 2011 @ 6:10 pm
I never went away to camp, but I worked at a campground that my parent’s owned in Minnesota. It was Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Campground. Boy, do I have some stories about that place! Debbie H
Liz C. said,
June 8, 2011 @ 6:14 pm
I went to my church’s summer camp three years in a row but as soon as I was old enough to object I no longer went. Loopy Camp is really my speed!
tami said,
June 8, 2011 @ 6:31 pm
WAH! I never got to go to camp.
If I could now, I’d love to go to one of those specialty camps they offer, like science camp or horse camp
Shannon G said,
June 8, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
As a kid I only went to academic based camps like computer camp, environmental camp and of course band camp every year since 6th grade. Growing up my parents took me camping all the time. We were true campers, roughing it all the way. I loved it!
Barb T. said,
June 8, 2011 @ 6:49 pm
I went to Girl Scout camp and Camp Nagawicka in Wisconsin; I must say, I was horribly homesick, so I didn’t like them much. I was such a mama’s girl!
Barb in MA said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:04 pm
no camp for me (except for this summer, the Loopy Ewe camp), but my favorite one was a small local day camp for special needs children. on a small pond. I don’t know if it is still run as a camp (this was 20 years ago), not fancy, but the staff were just the best. My son went there for one summer when he was 5 or 6. It was a great little time off for me, and I know he had one of the best of camping experiences. He still mentions Camp Arrowhead and the van that he got to ride in.
Sara said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:06 pm
I’m not interested in the pattern, so if you draw my name, please give it a pass.
I do want to share my favorite camp with you though: Camp Treetops in Lake Placid, NY. I only went there one summer, but it was pretty amazing. They are a working farm, with gardens, all sorts of animals and even a maple sugaring grove. They also have a boarding school, so there’s action year-round. I saw on facebook a while ago that they were learning how to spin yarn, dye it and knit- all from fleeces from the camp/school’s flock.
Linda said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:18 pm
Mine were Girl Scout camps: Butternut Springs, Juniper Knoll, but most unique was on a Girl Scout exchange trip to Gloustershire, England we camped on Lord & Lady Wigam’s estate – most exciting was 1965 Senior Roundup in Cour de lene Idaho.
Beth said,
June 8, 2011 @ 7:25 pm
My favorite camp was 4-H Camp in the Bears Paw mountains in Montana. Many summers of 4-H fun and shennanigans.
Diane said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:06 pm
Camp Ondessonk in southern Illinois. I loved that place!
pattie said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:32 pm
4-H camp and camping at the county fair…
Melissa said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:37 pm
Camp Robynhaven for band camp! Good times were had by all, except maybe our poor band director.
Ruth said,
June 8, 2011 @ 8:58 pm
I never got to go away to camp when I was a kid. But. I sort of lived in a perpetual camp of sorts when I was 18 for a summer. Slept under the stars most nights. It was lovely.
Kim said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:11 pm
I loved camp as a kid. I attended church camp every summer at Redwood Christian Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Later as a teenager I went back and worked there as a counselor. It was a great place!
Samantha said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:32 pm
I only went to day camp, which was through Girl Scouts at Rolling Ridges in Wisconsin.
Ann said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:38 pm
My favorite was a camp I went to with the Girl Scouts in Vermont called Derrybrook.
kelly-ann said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:46 pm
I attended the National Wildlife Federation camp in N. Carolina back in the 80′s. It was very focused on getting back to nature…no make-up, hair dryer, candy, tv, radio, etc. Loved it although a little make-up would have been nice
Christel said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:48 pm
I never went to camp. I made sure my son got to go, though!!
Amanda Cathleen said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:51 pm
I went to lots of Girl Scout camps when I was little. I have so many fond memories of sitting by the camp fire singing songs and eating s’mores, sleeping in tents. I went to Camp Marion White when I was a Brownie, then to Camp Bonnie Brae for sleep over camp and then Timber Trails in Tolland MA. I’m looking forward to joining my 2 oldest girls for a weekend at Girl Scout camp here in Western PA. It’s always a lot of fun packed into 2 days!
Suzy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 9:51 pm
I went to a lot of camps, but my hands down favorite was Cazadero Music Camp, in Cazadero California. We played music and practiced every day, and did all the typical summer camp things in the afternoons and evenings, and at the end of camp we put on concerts for our friends and family. I went year after year. Put all those church camps to shame
Joy Linn said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:02 pm
Wow! So funny that my camp was already mentioned twice! I went to Camp Barakel in MI and still go to their Ladies Retreats!! Love it! I also went to Camp Hiawatha in the UP of MI. I also got to be a counsellor at a camp in IN for abused children which was such a blessing!
I love camping and now that I can go to the Ladies Retreats and sit and chat and eat homemade cookies and knit for a weekend, Camp is still for me! So excited to be taking part of the Camp Loopy!!!
Cindy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:08 pm
I never went to camp as a child. I guess I would have been homesick. Too Bad!
Eleanor said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:19 pm
I went to camp once – the National Youth Science Camp the summer after my senior year of high school. We stayed in cabins in the woods in West Virginia for three and a half weeks, and it was a really awesome mix of lectures and hands-on science activities. There were also several excursions in “Twinkies”, the old-fashioned yellow school buses. We listened to a folk concert in a cave and went on a picnic at a civil war battle field on the 4th of July, and visited the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. There were three overnight camping trips, so we even did some real camping (and backpacking, rock climbing, and caving). Every morning, we woke up to “I Want to Wake Up in the Morning Where the Rhododendrons Grow” and “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, and every night the lights-out music ended with “Ashokan Farewell”. It was awesome!
Melissa said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:21 pm
My favorite camp was Camp Okizu, a camp for kids with cancer and their siblings. Many memories of kids on chemotherapy swimming in a dirty lake with the doctors and nurses encouraging us to do so.
Amy said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:25 pm
I never went to camp and didn’t want to. I enjoyed being an only child again when my sister went to camp though!
Jade said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:35 pm
We don’t have summer camps in Australia.
Katrina said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:36 pm
I never went to camp and I never had any friends who did either!
Teresa Thorson said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:38 pm
I attended camp every summer growing up….for many years. I spent 2-3 weeks at Girl Scout Camp and 1 week at church camp, EWALU. But my favorite part of summer was the 2-3 weeks I spent on my grandparents farm in Iowa. I helped make hay, feed the livestock, and collect the eggs. It was a lot of hard work, but we all loved our time on the farm!
Michelle said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:42 pm
Every summer it was Camp Bandina for me — it is on the Medina River near Bandera, Texas. Hot as blue blazes but swimming in the river was wonderful. It’s where I met my EX husband. LOL Even after 30 years…it’s still there AND open.
Agatha said,
June 8, 2011 @ 10:45 pm
My camps didn’t have official camp names. I was a Polish Girl Scout, and I went to multiple camps every year from the time I was 12 until I was probably 17. My favorite was the first camp of the summer, when I was a counselor at the little kid’s sleep-away camp near Doylestown, PA. Every second of that camp was indescribably imaginative and joyful!
Melissa W said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:10 pm
Christine, I went to Camp Zoe in the Missouri Ozarks, too! But just one year (1964? 65?). My “camp heart” is definitely at Cheley Colorado Camps just outside of Estes Park. My daughter went there for several years and loved it too – and my mother (age 83) had friends who went to the same camp, so it’s been around for quite a while. It’s been run by the same family since the 1920s – 3rd generation now, I think – a wonderful camp experience in the gorgeous Colorado Rockies.
Annette said,
June 8, 2011 @ 11:32 pm
My favorite camp was Camp White’s Landing on Catalina Island in California. It was a girl scout camp and my favorite experince was learning to sail in a tiny two person boat.
Jenny T said,
June 9, 2011 @ 12:00 am
I never went to camp, but the kids love Summerquest in St. Louis.
Ellen said,
June 9, 2011 @ 12:03 am
OMG – Annette – I was just typing “Camp White’s Landing” on Catalina Island California too! Did you have any close encounters with wild boars? We had to turn in all our sweets to be sure the boars did not visit our tents. What a small world!
Jani said,
June 9, 2011 @ 12:04 am
Great memories! I went to GS camp and church camp as a kid, but my favorite camp is one that my husband & kids & I have enjoyed for the last 20 years – DeBenneville Pines, near Jenks Lake above the San Gorgonio pass (about 2/3 of the way from L.A. to Palm Springs).
Ray said,
June 9, 2011 @ 12:28 am
I went to Girl Scout camp as a kid, but my favorite camping trip was with my daughter to Big Sur.
Trish D. said,
June 9, 2011 @ 12:45 am
I never went to a traditional summer camp but my parents took us camping every year. We normally went camping for two weeks in Yosemite NP, Sequoia and Kings Canyon NPs. Lots of family fun. I think I got the better end of the deal spending time with my family instead of away at camp.
Rachelle said,
June 9, 2011 @ 1:29 am
I think my best camp was when I was 12 and went to the girl guides Jamboree camp at New Plymouth NZ. It was a very long time ago now, but I still remember those old canvas tents and the long-drops!
maureen northway said,
June 9, 2011 @ 1:48 am
my best camp experience was summer 1969 when I was a counselor at the Easter Seal camp for the summer for disabled d kids. it was near Stevens Creek dam in the Bay Area. best experience of my life. seriously. I believe it hanged my life.
Carrie said,
June 9, 2011 @ 3:12 am
YMCA Camp!
Carolyn said,
June 9, 2011 @ 4:53 am
Camp Walden in Diamond Point, NY was where I spent 10 summers. It was a great camp that is still around. I was a camper for 8 summers and a counselor for 2. Great memories!
Suzanne said,
June 9, 2011 @ 5:16 am
I also went to Camp Barakel in Michigan as I was growing up. It was my favorite. As an adult I went to Mom and Me Girl Scout camp with my daughter. I still enjoy all the memories.
Sarah Franklin said,
June 9, 2011 @ 6:05 am
I never went to camp. It was always something I wanted to do but my parents couldn’t afford it. My girl’s have both enjoyed going to church camp for the past couple of summers. They are a bit sad that our church won’t be going this year.
Ruth Anne said,
June 9, 2011 @ 7:20 am
I didn’t go to camp, but I grew up on a farm right at the base of Camp Wanake in Ohio. My uncle was the caretaker of the camp so my aunt and uncle lived at the camp. My wildest memory is in 1969 when I was three a huge flood hit at the 4th of July and the campers were trapped up there. My dad and my uncles brought them all to our farm on hay wagons and then took them by boat to the spot in the road where cars still had access to be picked up by their parents.
jan said,
June 9, 2011 @ 7:42 am
Camp Lackawanna in tunkhannock PA. It was on the Susquehanna River and its where I learned canoeing skills. I love waking up to the smell of pine trees in the chilly early morning summer days. I really miss that.
Diane said,
June 9, 2011 @ 8:05 am
I never went to summer camp, but did attend a day program at the Y one summer. The only thing I remember is marching around the gym in a parade wearing funny hats that we made. I think I’m glad it was only once!
Jen B said,
June 9, 2011 @ 8:09 am
The only camp I went to was band camp. And, it was NOTHING like the movies. 3 weeks on the parking lot of the high school in August. We actually did fry eggs on the lot. But, I got a great tan. LOL
Kristen said,
June 9, 2011 @ 9:03 am
I went to a horse camp at the Girl Scout camp in Bailey, Colorado when I was maybe 9 or 10! I still remember how much I loved it!
Jan said,
June 9, 2011 @ 9:58 am
I never went to summer camp as a child. Glad I’m able to camp with The Loopy Ewe as an adult!
Liz T. said,
June 9, 2011 @ 10:23 am
No camp for me – that’s why I need to get it together for Camp Loopy. I am sure it would be my favorite!!
Nancy W said,
June 9, 2011 @ 10:41 am
I never wanted to go to camp when I was a child but online camps are so much fun! No bugs or snakes or sweating!
Loretta said,
June 9, 2011 @ 11:24 am
I went to Girl Scout camp when I was little & loved it!
Sue said,
June 9, 2011 @ 11:42 am
I went to St. Dorothy’s Rest in the redwoods here in California. And for the last several years, my son has been going for a week every summer too. (St. Dorothy’s also hosts knitting retreats – you can see why they’re a fave at our house!)
Denise Russart said,
June 9, 2011 @ 1:42 pm
Not summer camp but 4-H Camp for a week -Upham Woods, Wisconsin Dells, WI.
Pat Facemire said,
June 9, 2011 @ 2:15 pm
I was a Girl Scout for many years. I went to Brownie Day Camp, Camp Grant, and Camp Matta Wacca. I was a Counselor in Training at Camp Quinipet, and worked a summer at Matta Wacca.
My favorites were Camp Grant, Camp Matta Wacca as a camper and Quinipet
karen w said,
June 9, 2011 @ 3:30 pm
I was a Girl Scout and went to camp for 2 or 3 years. It was in Farmington Hills, MI but I don’t remember the name of the camp. Now it is a subdivision, but at the time, it was on a dirt road in the woods.
Denise in ThreeLakes said,
June 9, 2011 @ 4:00 pm
I haven’t read all of the comments, so far, but I bet I’m one of a few that can say I live about a mile or so from Camp Honey Rock (associated with Wheaton College) near Eagle River and Three Lakes. I loved going to camp(Camp LuWiSiMo). My son looks forward to going every year, too. Looking forward to Camp Loopy!
Suzanne said,
June 9, 2011 @ 4:43 pm
I’ve never gone to Camp before….Camp Loopy will be my first summer camp!
Samantha said,
June 9, 2011 @ 4:54 pm
Coming from South Africa we didn’t have summer camp like Americans did but I loved The Parent Trap as a child (the Hayley Mills version) so I always dreamed about going to summer camp…
pat wiczulis said,
June 9, 2011 @ 5:13 pm
My favorite camp is Special Needs camp for developmentally and mentally disabled adults. My dear son Adam who is disabled attends every year. As a matter of fact, he leaves tomorrow . He looks forward to camp along with the 100 other campers who go to Fun Camp. Bless all the nurses and counselors who generously volunteer their time, Now that is a great camp.
Janet B said,
June 9, 2011 @ 5:25 pm
I went to Camp Tekaquitha (sp?( — a Girl Scout Camp for a couple of years. Pretty rustic, but on beautiful Peconic Bay on Long Island.
southparknitter said,
June 9, 2011 @ 6:11 pm
My favorite camp growing up was Girl Scout camp–camp Chinqua-Penn.
As an adult, I went to Kanuga Conference Center for a knitting retreat several years ago. They had no phones, no cell reception, internet only in main lodge on their computers, and no TV. All we could do was eat, knit and share.
Meg said,
June 9, 2011 @ 6:15 pm
I went to Camp Nyoda in New Jersey. I had 7 great summers there!
Kathy said,
June 9, 2011 @ 6:33 pm
So many camps… what a childhood I must have had! Camp Blanchard (YMCA / YWCA day camp), Camp Kinnywood (Girls Club day camp, with an occasional sleepover), Camp Neyati (Girl Scout day camp with one or two sleepovers per session), Camp Green Eyrie (Girl Scout sleep-away camp), and maybe another one or two whose names and details escape me. I loved camp! And still do, now that there are no mosquitoes at this latest one!
Joannah said,
June 9, 2011 @ 7:18 pm
I never went to camp.
I did go camping … once.
Jana said,
June 9, 2011 @ 7:53 pm
I didn’t go to camp, but went camping with my sister and her in laws once at Walawa Lake. It was really pretty.
Nami said,
June 9, 2011 @ 8:15 pm
I remember being sent to “day camp” and other camps as a child together with my brother, but I think it was a way for my parents to spend some time together. Now I send my eldest away…to spend time with my DH.
Colleen said,
June 9, 2011 @ 8:48 pm
Loved camp…went to Girl Scout camp Metamora and YWCA Camp Cavell both outside Detroit. I was also a counselor at the Y camp, after my freshman yr at U of M. My favorite camp was Interlochen, National Music Camp near Traverse City, MI.
As for camping, Toured the Canadian Boundary Waters by canoe three years in a row.
Andrea L. said,
June 9, 2011 @ 9:34 pm
In high school my church had a week long youth camp at the beach. I went every year! It was wonderful and I have so many great memories of the fun and crazy things we did.
Betty said,
June 9, 2011 @ 10:39 pm
I went to camp as a Girl Scout and Vacation BIble School which was like camp for me.
Jeny said,
June 10, 2011 @ 5:20 am
I’ve never been on a summer camp – this is my first!
Melissa Scott said,
June 10, 2011 @ 7:52 am
I went to camp Timberlake, Wiisconsin, in the Dells. Think mozzies, sunburn, and out houses. Yes, out houses. For weeks!
lisa said,
June 10, 2011 @ 8:36 am
I went to church camp in Knob Knoster Mo. It was so much fun to get away and have a week long slumber party! I still talk to friends that I made during those weeks at camp <3
Wendy said,
June 10, 2011 @ 8:52 am
I didn’t go to camp. We had a farm, so that was my camp, that and cutting wood LOL!
Diane said,
June 10, 2011 @ 9:37 am
The only summer camp I ever went to was a Girl Scout Day Camp that met at a large park on the north side of our town. It was lots of fun. Somewhere I think I still have a few photos taken there!
Elaine said,
June 10, 2011 @ 11:21 am
I went to the same camp every summer for 7 years and then I worked there as a counselor. My best friend is still someone I met a million years ago when we were both 11. She lives 2500 miles away but will always be my bff.
Katie said,
June 10, 2011 @ 12:33 pm
My boys LOVE going to Farm Camp at Broadturn Farm in southern Maine. It’s so old-school, wholesome and plain fun!!
http://www.broadturnfarm.com/
Judy Laquidara said,
June 10, 2011 @ 1:06 pm
When I was a kid, there was a Camp Fire Girls’ day camp called Wi-Ta-Wentin and I loved going there. It was on the river and there were always lots of crafts. I can still remember the campy smells in the sleeping quarters.
Jean Wrightnour said,
June 10, 2011 @ 2:15 pm
I love Boy Scout Camp. My husband often goes with our two teen-aged boys and they have a great time hanging with nature and earning badges and I get to come home to peace, quiet, our old dog Josie and two cats, Kissa and Diabla. I sort of recharge and I stay home to do it! (I had always dreamed of going to camp as a kid and had one disastrous week at a camp when I was about 11–argh.)
Dottie said,
June 10, 2011 @ 2:23 pm
I went to Camp Pokanoka for girl scouts and Camp Manitoumi for church, but Space Camp was definitely the highlight.
Allison said,
June 10, 2011 @ 2:41 pm
I went to the Methodist Church camp in Leesburg, FL for 3 years in a row and loved it. And to more girl scout and Boy Scout with my sons camps than i can count. I love to camp!
Delia said,
June 10, 2011 @ 3:13 pm
I went to 4-H camp when I was in fifth or sixth grade – can’t remember for sure. There I decided that the summer camp thing was not for me. I later went to band camp and other music camps, but we were housed in SWOSU or OU dorms, not cabins or tents. Thank goodness, ’cause I wouldn’t have gone if I had to practice music in a tent.
LaLa said,
June 10, 2011 @ 5:15 pm
I went to multiple girl scout camps growing up and worked at Camp Tripp lake in Maine for a year in college. Tons of fun!
Kathleen said,
June 10, 2011 @ 6:21 pm
I did not attend camp.
Janet said,
June 10, 2011 @ 6:49 pm
Went to a YMCA camp as a kid, but not so fun. My first year I passed out when the nurse was treating a boil on my arm and I peed my pants. How embarrassing walking back to the cabin! But now I go to Camp Wapogasset in Wisconsin twice a year with my embroiderer’s guild buddies and I love it. No cooking, no laundry, just lots of stitching. Camp is wasted on the young.
Robin said,
June 10, 2011 @ 6:55 pm
I never went to camp.
Tracey said,
June 10, 2011 @ 8:46 pm
I went to 4-H camp! Wow – the first time was a mess – I was in 4th grade and had to shower in the shower house with all the other girls – no stalls or curtains!
Since then any camping I have done is in an air conditioned camper!!!
GerryART said,
June 10, 2011 @ 8:49 pm
Bible camp in the mountains above Los Angeles.
Three of my girl friends and I spend the week there were it was cool
as compared to the desert area where we lived.
hugs
Ellie said,
June 10, 2011 @ 10:11 pm
I went to girls camp for church but I didn’t like it much. My favorite camp like experiences were big family reunions at various camps in Oregon.
limejuicy said,
June 11, 2011 @ 9:30 am
I went to band camp in Prescott, AZ!
Paula said,
June 11, 2011 @ 10:16 am
I went to Camp Dearborn in Michigan in 1968. You know the joke between parents when they say, “While the kid is at camp, let’s move and not tell her where we are going?” well….when I got home from my two weeks at camp, there was a For Sale sign in front of our house. Guess the house didn’t sell fast enough.
Patsy (MissBabie) said,
June 11, 2011 @ 11:29 am
When I was a kid, I attended “Camp monde ami”, which translates to “World friends camp”, located in Cobalt, Ontario. I LOVED it there… people from all over the country would come, we were always between 150 and 200 girls – which is kind of funny because Cobalt’s population is less than 1000 residents.
They no longer have those camp days, but the lodge and cabins are still there and my family now rents it once every two years to host family reunions. It’s nice
Sherry said,
June 11, 2011 @ 1:56 pm
I went to Solid Rock Bible Camp as a kid. I hated going swimming cause of leeches!!!!!!!! And the cold water part too.
Bunny said,
June 11, 2011 @ 2:01 pm
The most recent recollection of camping was taking my son to Lourdes Camp in Skaneateles, NY. He insisted on me signing him up for two weeks when he had never camped before. Needless to say, I spent 13 days driving to the camp to see my homesick child. That was enough of camping for me.
Cheryl said,
June 11, 2011 @ 2:28 pm
I never went to camp, as third child of eleven and eldest daughter I more or less ran camp at home. We used to write plays and then charge the neighborhood kids to come and watch us perform on the picnic table.
Clara said,
June 11, 2011 @ 7:14 pm
I hope I’m not too late in commenting regarding summer camp. I left for vacation on the 8th and just returned home (very short vacation, but had fun nonstop at South Padre Island, TX. I never went to a summer camp when I was a kid. However, I made sure my son attended summer camp and almost every summer he went and had a grand time!
Erin said,
June 11, 2011 @ 9:10 pm
I didn’t go to camp when I was young! Camp Loopy will be my first one! I am excited!
Erin (MommyNeedsYarn) said,
June 12, 2011 @ 7:12 pm
I never went to camp – but I lived on a farm so we frequently held our own “camp” with friends over the summers. Great memories there!
Leigh said,
June 12, 2011 @ 7:25 pm
I like Timber Wolf Lake camp in Michigan. TWL is like Castaway but for middle schoolers. I did not attend camp there but my daughter did. She was the first to attend camp there from the Younglife and wyldlife students in our school. I did spend a weekend there and I think it was more like club med for kids.It was great!
Becky said,
June 12, 2011 @ 7:51 pm
As a kid, I went to Girl Scout Camp in the St. Louis area. Camp Cedarledge is great – and now my 2 girls are old enough to go! They love it too. (And I’m pretty sure they’re still using the same tents I stayed in 30 year ago! Ewwww!)
Jodi said,
June 12, 2011 @ 9:37 pm
I never really went to a “formal” summer camp but I come from a family of fishermen, so we were always going to different fishing spots-even after my folks had worked a full day, we’d make sandwiches and grab a bag of chips, pack some pop and have a picnic supper while we were fishing. Great memories!
Krispy of Oz said,
June 13, 2011 @ 2:37 am
I got to go to Camp Lutherhaven in Idaho when I was about 9. My folks couldn’t afford to send me so a kind couple from our church gave me a campship to attend. As I was only 9 my folks thought I might miss my little brother (15 months younger than me and a real pest at that time…) so they somehow found the money and sent him off to camp with me!!! What a pain! But by the end of the camp experience Johnny and I were much better friends and learned to depend on each other a lot through that experience. The next time I went to camp was when I was 16 and an exchange student in Australia! The cabin I stayed in was not lined with any plaster weather wall and the huntsman spiders that collected on the ceilings over night were terrifying, especially because I was on a top bunk!!! But I found out that even though the huntsman spiders looked like tarantulas (really, they do!) they are actually fairly harmless if you leave them alone. Now that I have lived in Australia for the last 38 years or so, I am quite used to the huntsman spiders.
Laura said,
June 13, 2011 @ 9:23 am
Every summer, I went to county 4H camp at the same camp location where National Youth Science Camp is held in West Virginia, as Eleanor describes above–it’s beautiful there and holds my favorite summer memories ever!! WV State 4H Camp (Older Youth) at Jackson’s Mill was 2nd only to county 4H camp. WV 4H camping program is the best! My family always camped around WV for vacations, as well. Almost Heaven: camping in West Virginia…take me home, Country Roads!
janette said,
June 13, 2011 @ 11:36 am
I went to Girl Scout camp
Jennie said,
June 13, 2011 @ 2:04 pm
I am one of the sad few who never got to go to camp.
Denese said,
June 13, 2011 @ 2:38 pm
I went to a Camp Fire Girls camp in Vandalia, MI called Camp Tannadoonah. I was not much of a camper and was sick at camp both summers that I went.
As an adult, I prefer a beach house.
Rachel said,
June 13, 2011 @ 5:07 pm
I never got to go to camp, but my brothers go to Scout camp. I’m so jealous!
Becki said,
June 13, 2011 @ 5:45 pm
The only camp I went to was Girl Scout Camp
Barb said,
June 13, 2011 @ 6:01 pm
My son went to Space Camp (multiple times…..) it was awesome for him.
Caroline Crawford said,
June 13, 2011 @ 6:30 pm
I went to Cedar Lake Camp (aka Brother Geiger’s Camp). Brother Henry C. Geiger was the one who had the Children’s Story Hour that was on TV years ago. At least it was on TV in middle TN…
Monica said,
June 13, 2011 @ 6:34 pm
never went to camp. not even day camp. spent my days playing with friends in the neighborhood. so deprived
Cindy said,
June 13, 2011 @ 6:34 pm
Cheerleading camp at U of Iowa. Took place the same time as basketball camp, so half the time was spent all love-sick over the boys walking around the campus.
Natasha said,
June 13, 2011 @ 6:36 pm
Redwood grove camp! I went for many years when I was younger and volunteered in my teens. The best part was making “paint” from rubbing creek rocks together
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Adrienne said,
June 13, 2011 @ 7:30 pm
Boo. No camps for me! I always got to spend the summer with my older brother and sister-in-law when I was younger though. He would set up a tent so we could sleep outside and he would make a bonfire so that we could eat smores.
Michelle H. said,
June 13, 2011 @ 7:49 pm
The only camp I attended was soccer camp one summer. I am taking my kids to camp in Durango CO this summer and I will be staying in a house on the camp property.
Tara said,
June 13, 2011 @ 8:15 pm
I never went to camp, mostly spent my summers at the pool.
Kathy said,
June 13, 2011 @ 8:24 pm
I went to Camp Moval several times as a camper and then several times as a family camp with our church. A camp, I was never a camper at, but visited when my sister and brother both went was Camp Miniwanca right on Lake Michigan in Michigan, quite beautiful.
Kay said,
June 13, 2011 @ 8:29 pm
One summer I got to go to a horseback riding day camp. It was horse heaven!!!
Pamela said,
June 13, 2011 @ 9:51 pm
I went to camp a lot (working mom). Boy did I hate it, but it is wonderful in memories!
The two best one was Camp Woodstock in CT– the camp stuck in the 60s. And then I went to camp at Mystic Seaport where you slept on an old boat.
So why am I doing camp loopy? It’s going to be like real camp- sounds great but the girls were mean!
Anne said,
June 13, 2011 @ 10:17 pm
The week long camp I went to once, was Camp Christopher (yay for CYO camps!) but the one I have the most memories of is Camp Crowell-Hilaeka (not sure if I spelled that right). It was the Girl Scout camp that I went to several times growing up, and then I ended up working there as a counselor the summer after my first year in college. So many good times!
Mel said,
June 13, 2011 @ 10:34 pm
I went to Camp Caledon in Western Pennsylvania. I adored it! I would go back right now if I could, but that was fifty years ago. LOL!
Linda L said,
June 13, 2011 @ 11:23 pm
I went to Girl Scout camp twice, I loved it, it was for 2 weeks at a time and was so much fun.
Katherine said,
June 14, 2011 @ 12:37 am
The only camp I ever went to was a 6th grade class trip for a week. It was at Camp Wapogasset in WI.
Pat said,
June 14, 2011 @ 1:28 am
Went on a couple of Girl Scout Camps and Cheerleading camps. Fun times!
Su said,
June 14, 2011 @ 6:58 am
Oh my, I had two unforgetable trips to Camp Hagan, at Shawnee-on-the-Delaware in Pennsylvania. Bug juice in big aluminum pitchers, lanyards, trooping down the hiii to swim in the Delaware, rowing up the river to picnic, . . .
Mary Beth said,
June 14, 2011 @ 7:11 am
I went to Girl Scout camps, some camps for our Church, and Pom Pon camp. The camping was all in Michigan and it was absolutely beautiful. I also camped with my grandparents in PA to visit Amish country, which was also fun.
That said, as an adult, I don’t need to camp. A shower without fumbling with a zillion quarters or wearing flip flops, as I freeze is preferred.
DonnaW said,
June 14, 2011 @ 7:40 am
I only got to go to camp once. It was a Girl Scout camp in Virginia and I loved it. I got to play my guitar, make all kinds of crafts, and be out in the woods for a week. I think I was about 13.
Holly said,
June 14, 2011 @ 9:12 am
This sounds like my kind of camping!
Michelle R said,
June 14, 2011 @ 9:35 am
No camps for me when I was a kid… just swim team at the crack of dawn every day! Cruel & unusual punishment…
Irish Clover said,
June 14, 2011 @ 10:01 am
I’m one of those deprived children who never really went to sleepaway camp. I did attend a Girl Scout camp once and had a blast. I also went to band camp, although mine was not nearly as exciting as the one in American Pie
Denise Katz said,
June 14, 2011 @ 11:22 am
I never went to a stay away camp – i was too homesick… but we always had lots of fun with the family since my parents were both teachers.
Glenna said,
June 14, 2011 @ 1:25 pm
I did go to ‘away’ summer camp with the girl scouts twice while in elementary school…can’t remember the name, but it was great fun. First time away from the parents and siblings, lots of fun crafts and activities. I remember hating the dirt, outside potties, and BUGS.
Priscilla said,
June 14, 2011 @ 5:20 pm
I went to YMCA day camp for a couple summers. Lots of fun. Crafts, swimming, sports, silly contests and games. Every two weeks we had a sleep over at camp.
Denise said,
June 14, 2011 @ 7:08 pm
I grew up on the southwest side of Chicago. Camp was limited to racing rats in the alley during summer vacation!
I like this version of camp MUCH better!
Kathy said,
June 14, 2011 @ 7:28 pm
I went to Camp Lakamaga (a Girl Scout camp) when I was a kid. Parts of it were fun but most of it was miserable. I prefer this bug and latrine free camp!
Marcela said,
June 14, 2011 @ 8:29 pm
I went to Camp o’ the Hills in the Irish Hills in Michigan. The cool thing was that on a NASCAR weekend you could hear the cars at camp. Oh, and one time I found a snake that had been run over by a car.
Maureen said,
June 20, 2011 @ 6:57 pm
I went to Camp SEWATARO, or at least that is how I think it is spelled, one summer. It was not too far from home and I got to shoot arrows with a bow and did arts and crafts, other than that I spent most summers with my family beach buggying on Cape Cod. I fished, clammed, surfed, swam, shelled and beachcombed, flew kites, played hide and seek on the beach at night (it is hard because it is flat…use your imaginations)
Jennifer said,
June 21, 2011 @ 9:45 am
I went to Sierra Christian Service Camp in the Sierra Mountains, California. I have great memories!
Betsy said,
June 24, 2011 @ 4:25 pm
I went to Girl Scout camp in New Hampshire where I grew up. We had a blast, and I can remember wanting to stay up really late to talk around the campfire but the counselors made us go to bed! How rude! We did so many arts and crafts, canoes, swam, hiked, and played tons of games over the course of a week. My mom revealed later that she was really worried that she would end up having to pick me up early, thinking that I would get homesick. Naahhh, not me. I never looked back once. There was way too much un to be had.
Betsy
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October 3, 2011 @ 5:39 pm
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February 20, 2012 @ 3:57 pm
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Lucy Portland said,
February 20, 2012 @ 4:53 pm
I went to church camp.
Cat said,
February 20, 2012 @ 5:19 pm
I went to 4-H camp just for the weekend on LI. When my boys were old enough we sent them to 4-H camp in upstate NY. I loved doing the arts & crafts.
Hugs!
Cat
P.S. Sheri weren’t you knitting a similar cape during Spring Fling in a light blue and red?
Patsy said,
February 20, 2012 @ 6:11 pm
Growing up, and to this day, I went to Chautauqua, NY. While in elementary and junior/senior high, I went to Chautauqua Boys and Girls club. It was like a day camp. I also worked there for four summers as a counselor. My brother and sisters and I still own our family home there. Now, I spend lots of time knitting in the summers
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