For the past 18 days, we’ve been leading, training and preparing our team… the most important part of our jobs. (Yes, I want the place to look good and work… but the people are way more important.)

We had our culminating moment for Orientation last night. After a great slide show of our staff in the Cove, we headed down to the (newly refurbished) Rec Hall. A few final words from Kate, myself and Dana for the team. And, a nice treat – four short talks from both returning and new staff members.

Becoming Yourself

When DH Jessie spoke, she mentioned being a ‘camp hater’ before she even arrived here several summers ago. Her boyfriend had been to camp a year prior and wouldn’t stop talking about the experience. “It felt a bit cult-like.” (I’ll take that.)

She charted her first summer’s path from ‘hater’ and someone who struggled to jump in to where she is now – doing everything in her power to get back here as a DH.

When Jessie spoke about the importance of camp to her, one line really stuck with me:  

“Camp didn’t change my life because it turned me into something new. It changed my life because it made me comfortable enough to be who I already was.”

This is what we want for all of our kiddos… and our staff.

We are excited to get everyone here tomorrow. Enough planning. Let’s go to camp.

PS: I’m pretty terrible on email when the kids are here. If you need me, call the office at 570.798.2716. I’ll get back to you as soon as I possibly can!

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A LONG time ago, Confucious said “study the past so you may divine the future.” Not too long ago, one of the great English writers (George Bernard Shaw) said ‘What we’ve learned from history is that we don’t learn from history.”

We at Weequahic do our best to learn. So… let’s talk about some history.

A History Lesson

Pre-1952: This was an old farm – cattle & apples. They (both the people and the cows) loved the lake.

After taking part of WW2, Mr. Art Lustig was the Athletics Director at Weequahic HS who also ran a summer day camp. When the polio epidemic really got going in the 50s, the families came to Mr. Lustig and asked him to get their to a safer, more fun place.

So, in 1953 Camp Weequahic opened with Art and Mollie as the directors… and still the AD at Weequahic High. They and their family ran camp until 2008.

In 2009, Kate and I showed up. Sue was not too far behind. In fact, we’ve worked together for 22 of our 24 years in camping.

When we started here, there were 90 kids, 45 staff, a third of whom were 17-year-old newly ‘graduated’ from Weequahic kids. It was a camp with great bones that needed a lot of work. Due the work of people like you and others who are warmly remembered though no longer with us, camp grew to what it is today.

More Important History

So… that’s the history in a nut shell. But that is certainly not the whole story.

To get that, you’ve got to talk about thousands of counselors who’ve walked this hill, built community in those bunks, taught and learned. Hailing from dozens of countries, they left their homes to live and laugh and learn and teach in the middle of nowhere.

It’s the story of massive wins – Prince William talking about how camp literally made him a kinder person, more than a dozen staff marriages, of life-long friends, of new, more exciting more self-actualized growth. It’s also the story of massive learning on all of our parts.

It’s the story of kids from dozens of countries and US states that see this place as their home, where they are their true selves. The pressures of the world fall away, the comparison trap of social media, the demands of school and activities. Instead, our campers in the past have been able to interact with new mentors in a new place with people just. Like. Y’all.

Be Here Now with Love

One of my favorite writers in one of my favorite books said: Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

So, let’s talk about the present and let’s do it with love.

Look around you. Look at the person next to you. We humans have been doing this, exactly this, for millennia. Under the stars, around a fire for warmth, community, protection, love, dance, celebration, food and more.

The past echoes loudly here in the present. That’s one of the reasons why this feels so good, so comfortable.

Counselors, you are now a part of the story at Weequahic. We are weaving this beautiful chaotic patchwork quilt of our moments together. We are experiencing the infinite presents of ‘now.’

Does that mean we are always the same? Heck no.  

There’s an old saying about a person and river. You can never see the same river twice. The water has changed… and so have you.

It’s the same here. You are different… even if this is your 28^th summer. The kids are certainly different. Each summer is literally a new adventure.

Future

We make plans for the future. We teach you our traditions, listen and learn from you and others about new ways, we build our culture together. We do this to prepare y’all to help create amazing for the kids arriving in 8 sleeps, the UPS driver, the guys painting the courts, the kitchen and cleaning team and everyone else.

We can look to the future and be greedy or fearful or lustful or any way we wish. Or… or. Or we can quietly recognize the future with hope while remaining rooted in the present moment around each over and over and over again.

So, in the week ahead, let’s continue to build this quilt this is our 2026 summer culture. Let’s give each other grace and patience. Let’s push each other – good naturedly – to be our best selves. Let’s get ready for the best summer of our lives… together.

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Kitchen News

We’ve two new chefs, Chef Chris and Chef Esaie. Only way to say this: these guys can sling it. Kate and I have always thought camp runs on its stomach (and a watch) and Chef Chris, Chef E and their team have kept everyone happy and full. Even our long-time Kitchen Manager Yanira has been impressed. High praise, indeed.

At breakfast today, we had 60% of our summer staff already with us. For the past week, they’ve been busting it alongside our DHs and PHs swinging weed-eaters, laying down paint and sod and picking up sticks and limbs and logs. Between (good natured) World Cup arguments, learning camp songs and traditions and getting to know one another, we’ve gotten a lot done.

By the end of dinner, we had 95% of team on camp. This is a HIGH energy group with more returners than we’ve ever enjoyed. Time to roll!

Speaking of which, Kate and I have great news.

Weequahic News

After being partners and part-owners in camp for many years, we completed our full purchase of Weequahic in May. We’ve loved working with our partners and will continue to be close. (They are all coming to Sydney and CK3’s wedding in August.) And, it was time to make Weequahic a completely family-run operation.

What will change?

Beside our young Kelly men becoming more involved and, with Luke heading to college, Kate and I spending more time in PA… nothing.

The values of Gratitude, Attitude and Courage have never been more important. Finding, recruiting, training and leading staff remains paramount. Home visits, Kate leading Nominations, the quest for continual improvement, great traditions we’ve started or kept going all remain the same.

If nothing else, it’s motivated us to do even more for our campers and staff and this great camp the Lustig family founded in 1953.

We are so happy to be fully started on Summer 2026. We’ve got two great weeks of Staff Orientation in front of us. After that, we can’t wait to get the kids here! Time for SUMMER!

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And, with that ‘right of fun’, comes some responsibilities.

Responsibilities at Camp

Just like us adults, campers have responsibilities, too. They are certainly more simple than the tax code, though: no swimming without a lifeguard, boys and girls stay out of the opposite gender’s bunk, follow the ‘banned items’ rule, do your chores and be kind to others.

The first three are pretty easy to delineate. These are ‘if/then’ statements. You either left your cell phone at home or you brought it to camp. Easy decision.

Those last two responsibilities – chores and kindness – those are a little harder to enforce. But camp, just like society at large, does better when all the participants practice what an old English judge called ‘obedience to the unenforceable.’

Chores

The following is by no means and exhaustive list of chores performed at camp but it’s certainly a good start:

• Make your bed every morning. 
• Put away your dirty clothes.
• Clear your plate and cutlery and trash in the Dining Hall at every meal… and help clean the table
• Brushing teeth, washing hair (with actual shampoo!)
• Assist with other bunk chores like sweeping or being the clean-up DJ or taking out the (small) trash bin or checking the drying lines, etc.

Why do all this? For a number of reasons. But the main reason is explained beautifully by Michael Korda:

Chores don’t steal childhood. They teach life. They teach gratitude… It’s about love disguised as responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Done right, chores build community. They make our place tidy and clean and more enjoyable. They help keep us physically safe and emotionally calm. We become more prepared for a brighter future. Let’s move to the last of the ‘unenforceables.’

Be Kind

It’s a choice – a set of demonstrable behaviors performed towards others… and yourself! Sometimes, being kind is helping someone up. Other times, being kind is passing along a challenging truth.

Now, we can’t make someone be kind. Each of us has to choose how we act towards one another and ourselves. We can set up consequences for certain actions – being mean, bullying, etc., sure. However, we cannot reach into a person’s mind and heart and drive them around like a tank.

What we can do isshow a whole bunch of great examples of kindness and patience (our staff and older campers) and inspire to live and act more kind. We can also have our counselors ‘nominate’ campers they saw doing kind and good things at camp at the Flag each night – a long tradition at Weequahic.

The power of examples is an amazing thing.

Do Your Chores and Be Kind

Can you have a ton of fun at camp without these two responsibilities being achieved with a level of consistency and effort? Sure can! (It just won’t be at Weequahic.)

Like many things in life that provide outsized benefits – eat your fruits and veggies, move your body, be grateful – these are simple ideas. That doesn’t mean they are always easy. But, like anything else, the more we practice….

Have a great week. Can’t wait to get everyone to camp soon!

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If you are like me, it’s probably not often or, more likely – it’s never.

So, why do I bring this up? Well… I’m typing this not long after a take-off from Newark on a flight home to Georgia. I don’t know if the pilot wanted to show off or we had incoming traffic or what but she moved us around a bunch and… it was so much fun! (My seatmate was less enthused. She’s ok now – I’m sure her nails will grow back.)

Looking out the window, I saw the NYC skyline, Lady Liberty, the bay, the low clouds all while swooping – literally – like one of those little starlings that dart around. And then it hit me – I’m flying. I’m literally flying.

Ok… ok – I get it. I can feel you thinking, “Yeah, Cole. That’s what happens when you get on a plane. You fly.” Yep – it’s palpable. I get it.

Let me tell you why I’m thinking about this a lot lately. (And, it’s not just because camp starts in seven weeks.)

Ice Age

Here is an important thing to remember: you, me and everyone else on this beautiful blue and green orb are descendants of the humans who survived the last Ice Age.

While the movies made the term popular, the actual event was… well, let’s just say it was ‘challenging.’ How much so?

It is thought that very, very few humans made it through that experience. To provide some perspective, it’s thought the people in Europe would fill just one SEC football stadium. It was a rough time for us… and we made it through!

And now, just 11,000 years later, we are flying and flushing toilets and exploring space and going to camp and having full meals delivered to our door and talking with grandparents across the country and….Phew. We are the descendants of some pretty tough people.

History and Gratitude

The more I read and listen to history, the more grateful I feel for our current times.

Are there things to improve upon right now? HECK YEAH. But we aren’t (literally) hunting our dinner. We aren’t talking about how much closer that 100’ tall glacier is getting to our cave/home. Saber-tooth tigers aren’t roaming the land looking for these not-very-hairy-no-claws-no-sharp-teeth things (read: us) to snack upon.

I’ve just finished listening to a biography on Napolean. Malaria killed enormous parts of his armies. The communication lags led to enormous advantages and disadvantages. There were actual serfs and lords and women couldn’t vote or be educated.

That was not that long ago – a mere 200 years. In context of the age of the earth, it’s not even a whisper of an eye movement, a thought.

Wow in the Every Day

Campers. Staff members. Anyone who is reading this…. Camp is a:

Complete. And. Total. GIFT.

When we read just a little bit of history and think about going to camp… well, it’s eye-opening. To take a few weeks and connect and play and learn in all the right ways? We aren’t working or trying survive. We are living.

Should we feel bad that we get to enjoy this gift? HECK NO. This is a gift for which we should be immeasurably grateful. It should make us better humans. We should use this gift to make friends from (literally) around the world, to expand our awareness and empathy, to deepen our resolve to be grateful, to choose how we respond, to build our courage in order to make the little spot on this world in which we live BETTER when we go back to our other home.

So, as I fly over the mountains the last Ice Age created, I leave you with this: come to camp prepared to make it awesome. We are going to zig and zag, do things we don’t normally get to enjoy… and remain aware of the gift that we get to enjoy. We get to do all this… together.

So good. Can’t wait. See you soon.  

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(Wait… that last sentence sounds a lot like… me. Let’s move on.)

Seriously – the tech in our pockets and all around us is really incredible. It allows for so much good. And… and. It can really hold us back.

Worshipping… What?

One of the drawbacks of social media culture is the productization of ourselves. We set up stories – mostly through images and posts – that we want to people to ‘buy’ with their attention and, if we really think about, their approval.

We make decisions on vacations that focus on posts that will sway others to think of us a certain way rather than exploring what we are truly curious about and experiencing with our travel mates. We pose. We construct. Very little is actually what is going on but rather the story we want to tell not to ourselves but to others.

It leads us all closer and closer to the idea that the shot must be perfect, that the words must be perfect that we… must be perfect.

Y’all, that’s not us. And while some will argue that has been one among us who reached perfection in the human condition, the odds are really, really not great that you and I will get there.  

But yet, rather than worshiping Yaweh or Buddha or God or something larger and greater than ourselves, our collective behavior and choices scream that we are very close to worshipping… perfection in ourselves. And that, in the words of David Foster Wallace, will tear us up.

(Parents, it’s an incredible read and something I talk about – though not in so many words – around the campfire with our campers.)

Perfectly Imperfect

Just as important, the chase for personal perfection holds us back.

Here’s a list of statements we often say to ourselves in those quiet moment: “I’ll be happy when…”, “I’ll be worthy when…”, “I’ll be accepted when….”

Let me help you finish those. In this modern society, young (and not so young) people often complete the above statements with ‘I’m perfect’ or ‘it’s perfect.’

The ironic thing? Those who really are happy or feel worthy or are accepted aren’t even thinking about themselves. Instead, they accept their imperfections with grace and humor and humility. They think of others more than they think of themselves. The contribute to the greater good of their family, their classroom, their team, troop… or bunk.

As Shannon Alder has said, “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.” The pursuit of perfect is a great way to beat yourself up and stop you from actually flourishing and growing.

You want the good news about your imperfection? Everyone else is imperfect, too. And even better, your imperfections will line up perfectly with a lot of people. As C.S. Lewis has said,

Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ..

You are perfectly imperfect. Rather than hiding these little foibles or eccentricities, recognize them, accept them and start contributing to the lives of those around you. You’ll get plenty of ‘likes’ that way. More than you can possibly imagine.

Have a great weekend, kiddos.

PS – How would I love you to answer those ‘when’ statements above? ‘…I decide to be so.’

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We really enjoyed Project Hail Mary last weekend. It was my second viewing. (Yes, yes – I’m a total nerd.)

You would think the movie was all about adventure and the solution to a huge problem. And, on the surface, it is. But the movie – and the great book – is all about one of our core values:

Courage

Don’t worry – I’m not spoiling anything. And the movie isn’t even about ‘just’ courage. It’s actually about finding the reason to be courageous. It also shows off at least one of courage’s two close cousins.

In my first viewing, I heard a line originally attributed to Lao Tzu. The second time, I really listened to it. Basically, one of the heroes states:

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

A mother will step between her child and an angry, threatening animal. A firefighter will enter a building to save those inside. These actions are not done just to be courageous. Rather, they are motivated by a higher purpose, love or calling. Courage happens because of the decisions made even before the situation.

But that’s not always enough. To truly live a life filled with courage, you need one of it’s great cousins:

A Champion

You also need to have someone(s) who spur you along, who believe in your abilities, even when you don’t yourself.  

In Dune, young Paul Atrides had his mother and father. He also had Duncan Idaho and Gurney Haleck. Fierce love. Preparation. Devotion to what he could become. (Though, in a touching moment, Paul’s father tells him the only thing he truly needs of him: to be his son.)

Yes, to fulfill find the heights of your courage, it’s incredibly helpful to have some champions, some people who believe in you more than you (currently) believe in yourself.

At camp, you’ve got a lot of champions – your counselors, your DH, your indefatigable Camp Mom Judy. (Look it up – it’s a good word and describes CMJ to a ‘T.’) Who else? Oh, yeah – me.

In Project Hail Mary, the ‘hero’ is introduced to a very strange ‘champion’ who not only believes in him but also shares the other cousin of courage with the hero:

Curiosity

Wait… what? Yes, curiosity is connected very clearly with courage. How? Think about it this way:

Every major invention or discovery required someone(s) to move against the grain, again the standard ideas. These were people who explored ideas, who pushed the boundaries of known thought and pushed our worlds past what we originally thought possible.

The not-too-ancients thought the earth was flat, that we were the center of the universe, that washing your hands before surgery was a bad idea, or the color of your skin or gender changed your value.

It took people of curiosity to question these perceived truths. They then practiced courage to chart new paths forward, those that opened everyone else’s eyes to the truth: the earth is (basically) round, we aren’t the center, hygiene is a good thing, all of us – ALL – are worthy of love and respect.

Camp is the Laboratory

You, my young friends, will need courage to do something new, to go past your self-set limits. It’ll be helpful to have champions. (You’ll have a lot.) It’ll also be helpful for you to be curious of the adventure ahead – who could you meet, what could you do?

There is no safer space to feel unsafe, to expand your comfort zone, to see that of which you are capable. Camp is the perfect place to practice courage and it’s cousins. Can’t wait to get started.

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The first that comes to mind? All the green around the lake. I promise you – there is precious little ‘green’ at camp right now. The winter slumber is over… but Spring has certainly not ‘sprung’ yet.

It brings up a quesions: Why are we fooled? There are lots of reasons but a few that come to mind quickly….

We are all pretty distracted.

All you have to do is walk around with your eyes up to see the evidence. People will literally bump into you because they are walking around (or driving) while looking at their phones or listening to something in their ears or thinking about something, deeply and/or distractedly.

It reminds me of Master Yoda’s admonition of Luke when they first met: “…Never his mind on where he was. What he was doing!”

That describes us – as a society – right now. And, when our minds are distracted, we take the first clues of a message and believe it because it’s the easiest thing to do. It’s natural – our brains are literally built to make snap judgements, to find the easiest path.

This combo – our distractions and our brains – make it easy to be tricked.

We love a good story.

Let’s be honest – the picture of the empty lake and all the ‘fun things we found’ at the bottom… they combined to tell a pretty entertaining story. I don’t know about you – I really enjoy being entertained.

A good book. A good joke. A fun movie. These all give us something to talk about and a point of connection. I took my parents – who’ve been married for 54 years – to see Project Hail Mary last weekend. They loved it! We had so much fun in the theater and afterwards talking about it.

We like good stories. It makes us a little easier to trick.

You Trust Me.

Ok – this one is a little dicey but I’m going to go regardless. When parents and staff (and the few kids who read my blog or emails) review the work I put out into the world, they trust what I write.

Why? Because Kate, the team and I have spent more than 20 years backing up our words with actions that support what we’ve said. It’s also due to me normally writing about more thoughtful matters. (As Kate loves to point out… she’s the fun one.)

No one expects something that isn’t true from me or from us as a camp. And, you shouldn’t… except for April 1^st. (By the way, there are a couple of examples that support this behavior. But this year’s was easily my best.)

Take Away

As the song says, ‘Slow down, you move too fast. You’ve got to make the moment last.’

It’s easy to do at camp – we don’t have our phones or tech or screens. We get to really be exactly where we are and truly with those around us.

And, when a story is really entertaining, take a minute and think, “Hmm… that’s really fun. But is it true?”

This is not to say something that is entertaining but not true is wrong. We humans have entertained (and taught) our friends and family around the campfire for tens of thousands of years through stories… which may or may not have been true.

In the end, a little bit of skepticism in this day of AI is a good thing to have in your worldview. If it’s on a screen – pic, video, zoom call, etc. – it can be doctored, made up or worse. When something matters, take the time to ask questions, especially in person.

As one of my mentors likes to say, there is no substitute for time spent together. We can’t wait to get everyone back to camp… and our (very) full Sly Lake.  

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The azaleas are blooming. Our dogwoods have announced their presence and the redbuds are singing. It’s the latter flowering tree that has me thinking today about beauty in the cracks.

We have two, big redbud trees in our backyard, planted before we got here in 2005. The top of one of the trees broke nearly off in the winter. I looked at it for weeks, thinking of way to safely remove the large, hanging branch, too high for me to reach with a ladder or climbing.

I got busy and forgot about it. Until last week. As the plants began to pop their Spring colors, I looked up and noticed something incredible:

That big branch that was barely hanging on had flowered up just as beautifully as the rest of the tree.

Kintsugi

There is a tradition of art in Japan called ‘kintsugi.’ It describes a process of rebuilding a broken bowl, cup or pot using gold, silver or some other precious metal to bind the pieces back together. In doing so, the function returns and the vessel itself is even more beautiful than before.

Its beauty comes from the cracks. Broken things can still flower.

There was a push in the ‘90s and early ‘00s to raise children to think they are perfect. As a society, we were so concerned about our young people’s self-esteem, how they held themselves. Turns out, this well-meaning approach to parenting led to those who had a hard time dealing with the cracks which life created in them.

Full disclosure – you aren’t perfect. (Goodness knows I’m not either.) You are going to make a lot of mistakes over the course of your life. All will leave a mark – some more than others. Sometimes, you’ll get nicked. Sometimes, you may feel broken. But….

Beauty comes from the cracks. Broken things can still flower. As long as you have something else. Read on.

Binding with Beauty

I vividly remember the days of braces, acne and my fumbling attempts at relationships. It’s a tough combination that comes seemingly at the worst possible time: late middle school and early high school. The combo and timing just about floored me.

Yet, I had a life-line in Mike Selleck. Mike was our youth leader growing up. From 7^th grade onward, he showed our group that it didn’t matter what we looked like, the grades we made, the failures (or successes) on the sports fields or recital halls or budding relationships.

We were loved and accepted, completely and unconditionally. And we enjoyed this incredible mix of fun and actual thinking that he and his team orchestrated every Sunday evening for years.

From this incredible combination, we flowered. We thrived. We had a refuge, a place where we could go each week to get re-filled in the best possible way.

He provided that which we all need – acceptance and love, fun and growth – to give us the space and tools needed to bind up our nicks and our fears and our broken pieces.

Many of us remain connected. I had lunch with Mike a month ago. Certainly, a lot has changed in the group of 23 of us from graduation until now. But all remember the beautiful binding that Mike helped create in us.

Beauty comes from the cracks. Broken things can still flower.

Beauty at Camp

Am I waxing poetic? Maybe… yeah. With Passover and Easter, both of the ‘worlds’ in which I live are experiencing a meaningful week. It’s got me in the mood.

Kiddos – you are going to make mistakes. A lot of them. At home, after school, at camp. All the places. So will your friends. So will your parents. So will I.

What matters is what we learn, how we bind ourselves up and how we move forward.

The good news? You can have help in all three of those next steps. In fact, I would argue that having the help is what creates he beauty.

At Weequahic this summer, the camp counselors can’t wait to help, to demonstrate it themselves and support you (and each other.) We are going to provide a space that is crazy fun and, at the right times, thoughtful and meaningful. And, you are going to have a lot of support at as you move forward.

You are going to do great. I know it. How? Because I know…

Beauty comes from the cracks. Broken things can still flower.

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I’ve learned how to drive all of the little and major equipment around camp and can (mostly) fix fryers, toilets and even washing machines.

The most recent learning centered around lake management. Did you know that lakes need to be drained every 50 years to maintain their health? I certainly didn’t… until I got a very grumpy letter from the PA Department of Agriculture, who oversees summer camps.

This direct, dare I say ‘rude’, letter included the following:

“Mr. Kelly, you are on record as the owner and manager of the property located at 210 Woods Road in Lakewood. You are also listed as the lake ‘warden’ of Sly Lake as your neighbors, Camp Nesher, are owned by a non-profit. Our records state the last draining of Sly Lake was March 31, 1973. You must rectify before the summer or you may not operate this summer as a camp for children.”

Lost and Found

So… drain the lake we have. And let me tell you: the discoveries have been epic.

Here’s what we’ve found so far:

• Twenty-three walkie talkies. Fourteen had names on them including six from a ‘Luis.’
• Remains of two sunk motor boats. And here I thought Director Kate started the craze in 2016. Turns out, she wasn’t alone in her affinity to sink boats.
• A time capsule. This was intriguing. It was from the early ‘80s and had a note: “I hope they never drain this lake.” Well… I hope these people come back to our Alumni WeeqEnd this summer. We’ll have an interesting talk….
• A hilarious note stuck in a ziplock bag with rocks in it. It read, “Dear Cropsie, would you please return my retainer if you find it? Thanks!”
• The remains of a massive shark. (SEE CAMPERS! I’ve been telling you there’s a shark in the lake for YEARS! Now, I get to say ‘I told you so.’)
• Multiple old canoes and ‘funyacks’ – you can see those in the picture.
• Lots of tie-dye shirts and bell-bottom pants. Hm….
• The last find was incredible: an underwater city for beavers. I feel pretty bad about destroying an entire ‘city’ built over what must have been 50 years. But, the State required it. So… off they go.*

*Don’t worry.  We relocated all of the beavers to a new lake that borders our friends at Camp Starlight. They’ll be so excited to find out their beaver population has tripled over the winter!

Ready for the Summer

We are now in the process of re-filling the lake. Thankfully, there are a number of springs under the lake and the winter melt has increased the flow of water.

We should be totally fine by the time our staff arrive and the fish – who are all safely in tanks throughout CIT bunks 37 and 38 (and Lakeview) – will be happy to return home.

Well – I’m happy we’ll be in compliance for the State and that things will be ready to go for the summer. Hopefully, I’ll be around for the next draining and that it’ll happen on the same day: April 1st.

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