I am now four days behind on this blog and have realized that the only way I will ever catch up is if I just summarize the major events for the past few days and proceed onward.
On June 15th, we hiked back from Shark Harbor via the Eagles route, a trail that I was unfamiliar with. It's a pretty cool hike until you get to Two Harbors, because there is this ridiculous ridgeline trail that shows you how weak you are in the eyes of the world. It skyrockets up out of Two Harbors at an angle comparable to that of a space shuttle launch. That hill is easily the nastiest piece of topography I've attempted to conquer with my boots in years, possibly ever. We dragged ourselves up it, one staggering step at a time, while I cursed the hill loudly at each flat spot. Anyway, several hours later we stumbled into camp and threw ourselves off the dock into the ocean. It was quite nice. While the hike was pretty hard, I was glad to have done it because as Alan Doud (my high school physics teacher) would have said, happiness can only be achieved through hard-work and self-denial. Sumner would have liked that man.
That afternoon we had the good fortune to try out a new training program: the Parent Panel. Several parents came out to talk to us about their expectations, fears, and ideas about summer camp. It was actually a very interesting discussion. I was quite surprised at how laid back the parents were, I always felt like parents were much more uptight about their kids at camp, but these folks seemed not to worry about anything other than tooth brushing and inappropriate comments.
The next day we got to view the film on intentional camps created by Nick Osti and Nick Horner. It turned out rather well.
I have tried to write this like five times now, I'm going to just stop trying to cover this week. I can't catch up, the week is lost to the sands of time. Also Prince of Persia is going to be awful.
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