Check In and Opening Campfires!

07/30/2017

Today was check in day for Session 3! It was so great seeing old friends reunite and new friendships form. All of our sibling villages met in the late afternoon and started teambuilding and name games so that campers could get to know each other. All of the Hird was together for the first time at dinner tonight when we shared big trays of pizza. From there we met behind the Dining Hall for a big game of ‘Jump Circle’ before splitting off for individual opening campfires.

Sacky, Hemlock, MAC Boys, MAC Girls, and STEP share smores around a campfire

Tacoma and Lenape enjoy a performance on a violin from a Tacoma camper

Pac and Windsong sing ‘The Hird Song’ with Al (sorry it’s a little bit dark, we got there late!)

Check in to the blog every night of the session for updates and stories on what the villages did during the day!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Morgan Theze

Born in New York but raised in Ireland, Morgan has spent every summer he can remember flying back to the US to attend summer camps. Over the years that Morgan worked at a well-regarded private camp in Maine, he took on many roles including Cabin Counselor, Head of Rocks and Ropes, Program Director, and Operations Director. Morgan began working at Frost Valley as a program instructor in 2014, leading activities for our schools and weekend programs, before becoming our Director of Camp Henry Hird. Campers at Camp Henry Hird range in age from 13 to 16. Morgan loves working with this age group as he finds that this is the time of their life where they form into unique individuals and discover the values that they will hold with them for the rest of their lives.