Camp Nebagamon

Last night at our Camp talent show, we wrapped up our evening together as we always do–by singing songs! The final three are ones that tie us back to generations of campers and counselors at Nebagamon. They are songs about this place and the things we care about here. They are songs we all sing…

For one day each summer, Camp Nebagamon forgoes its usual lumberjack theme to fill the shoes of another long lost legend of the Northwoods: the voyageur. Today is The Grand Pursuit, our second session all-camp competition day, when our campers don a sash around their wastes in their teams colors and compete for their fur…

Today we were visited by our friends at Birch Trail, a camp for girls about 45 minutes away from us, for our annual social.  We’ve been having socials with Birch Trail for many years, and prior to last summer, they were only for our oldest campers. Last summer, our two leadership teams hatched a plan…

Down at the Nature Shack, our monarch chrysalises are about to hatch. Our Nature Lore instructors guided campers in scouring milkweed plants around Camp for monarch butterfly eggs, collecting them in an insect tank, and providing milkweed leaves daily for the caterpillars to eat. About 10 days ago, the bugs began spinning their cocoons on…

It is a beautiful day at Camp–beautiful and hot. The high this afternoon was around 87°, which made for a perfect day to spend some time in (or on) the water. We’re really lucky that Muggs and Janet Lorber chose to set up Camp on the shores of Lake Nebagamon back in 1929. While some…

There are a few times each summer when we get to really show off to outsiders what it means to be a Nebagamon camper, and today is one of those days. Our Bi-Camp competition against North Star Camp was today, and we spent the day living our values in competition against our friends and neighbors…

As we’ve written quite a bit about this summer in these updates, goal setting is really important to us here at Camp Nebagamon. We all know that there’s just so much value in giving kids a chance to decide what’s important to them and then creating space for them to flourish in those areas. Between…

Happy Sunday! For our new-to-camp parents out there, Sunday at Camp isa special day. We start with a thirty-minute late wake up. Then we head to the Rec Hall for cinnamon rolls or coffee cake for breakfast. We alternate every week and there is intense debate over which reigns supreme – today was cinnamon roll…

The centerpiece of the in-camp program at Nebagamon is the project board, and this morning following breakfast, as always, that was the place to be. This morning, I stationed myself next to the project board to serve as the information kiosk/help desk. I anticipated many campers would have questions about activities, where to sign up…

And we’re off! The second session of our 96th camping season is underway, and we can already feel the positive energy. I just finished a lap around camp where I saw new-to-camp Swampers and Loggers learning the ropes of box hockey. In the Axeman Village our seventh graders enjoyed their first-day-of-camp snack: cookies and bug…