Camp Nebagamon

One of the first things people notice when they walk into Camp Nebagamon are the trees. Maples, birches and towering pines span as far as the eye can see. The predominant color around the place is green, from the canopy above to saplings inching into the sky. Intricate root systems weave above the surface and…

This morning we gathered for our final Sunday Service of the summer… Yes, I know it’s Friday but sometimes we just have to roll with it! The final Service is always a bit different. Rather than hearing from an administrator sharing about a value or a trait that’s important to them, this one is a…

I spend all winter hiring folks to come care for our campers here at Camp Nebagamon, and we market the job in all sorts of ways – an opportunity to spend the summer outside, to make new friends, and to learn job skills and life lessons that will carry forward into the future.And I tell…

Since they were Swampers, two campers have spent two project periods per day– the maximum a camper can attend a project per day–  at target shooting together. By their math, they’ve shot at about 2,000 targets each in their time at Nebagamon. As Swampers, they learned the basics: how to aim and how to keep…

Every once in a while here at camp, we really let our competitive flags fly, and yesterday was one of those days, literally: on The Grand Pursuit, each team unfurls a bright, colorful flag representing their fur trading company, and campers parade around with these flags the entire day. That’s right – our second session…

It’s been an action-packed day today here at camp. Sure, on the surface it’s a classic four-project-period day, but in addition to our standard suite of activities, we have some special events going on as well.  Today we continued working on an ongoing stewardship project: eradicating invasive buckthorn from our grounds. Buckthorn is problematic in…

Yesterday evening as I walked up the Hill before Taps, everything seemed just a bit too quiet. A couple of campers and counselors sat at picnic tables wrapping up games of euchre before jopping up, but it was clear that the village was emptier than it should have been and I wondered where everyone was.…

Every summer, Camp Nebagamon hosts a birthday party for everyone, all on the exact same night. It’s loud, it’s messy, and it’s one of the best examples of the kind of unmitigated fun we have here up at camp. The tradition actually started back in the early 1940s as a solution to World War II…

We’ve been having a great week up here at camp! Yesterday we hosted our annual bi-camp competition with our friends from North Star Camp. As we do every year, we competed in a range of events: cross country, tennis, canoeing, swimming, archery, target shooting, chess and sailing. It’s always great to spend time with the…

How many times in one of these updates have we talked about choice? Well, in my opinion, however many we have is not enough, because our campers’ power to choose their activities is one of the marquee features of our program here at Nebagamon, and it was on full display last ight during our second…