A kick ass
summer camp located in the
Blue Ridge Mountains, or more specifically
Vesuvius,
Virginia (
USA). Everyday for two weeks you wake up at 7am to
Revelee. Everyone scrambles to the Rec Field for Flag Raising and the
Pledge of Allegiance. After that they have breakfast then go to class. Classes are taught by the counselers (who are usually
college students). From the top of my head, it's been awhile, subjects can be:
Anthropology
Astronomy
Botany
Conservation Literature
Entymology
Herpetology
Geology
Ecology
Mammology
Ornithology
Wildlife Art
Wilderness Survival
After class campers get a free time to go hiking, swimming, reading, work on reports, eat candy, etc until lunch. Immediately after lunch there's Rest Period where all the campers are stuck in
bunkhouses while counselers get some sleep. Most kids take the time to write home, play cards (
Egyptian Rat Screw,
Hearts,
BlackJack, and
Poker being the favorites), or work on reports for classes. Class again after Rest Period, and again after that Afternoon Rec. Just before dinner campers assemble on the Rec field once again for Flag Lowering. A short Rec time after dinner is followed by Evening Program where you sing songs and watch a movie (or listen to a
lecture). Then sleeptime!
Right after
Chapel on Sunday campers go on all day hikes with counselers. In the seven (eight?) summers I've been there, not once did we
not get lost on our hike- except for maybe water hikes where we just followed the river... The worst hike to go onto is the Mystery Hike. Mystery Hikes
always get
extremely lost and
always someone ends up getting stung by a few dozen
bees.