Happy New Year !
We hope that you and your families had a wonderful Christmas and New Year !
We are looking forward to an AWESOME 2009 and its only 5 short months till camp starts !
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Refer a Friend!
Refer a friend to Mountain Camp and receive a free t-shirt!
Click here to refer a friend !
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Mountain Camp Apparel
Want to look great and keep warm this winter? Shop for Mountain Camp apparel online at our store. Click here to order products and browse our store.
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 Early Bird Enrollment ends January 15th Enroll now and save!
In order to qualify for the Early Bird Rate, we must receive your application and $500 deposit by January 15th AND, you must pay in full by March 1st. You can ENROLL ONLINE by clicking here, or you can download a Camper Application from our website.
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 Mountain Camp Scholarship Fund
Mountain Camp and the American Camp Association are working together to provide summer camp for deserving children who can not afford the camp tuition. Last year we provided more than 80 deserving campers scholarships to camp, and this year we are hoping to send even more!
Mountain Camp has partnered with three outstanding Bay Area non- profit groups: S.M.A.R.T. ,Real Options for City Kids and the Caldwell Foundation and we are asking for your help. When you are completing your online Camper Registration, you now have the option of contributing a tax deductible donation to the Mountain Camp Scholarship Fund.
Any contribution will be greatly appreciated.
Like no other youth activity, camp has the ability to shape life-long attitudes and behaviors. It is a place where children are treated as individuals, and encouraged to grow in a supportive environment that values diversity. In this intimate setting, children from all backgrounds learn to live cooperatively, and make close and lasting friendships.
The American Camp Association is a community of camp professionals who, for nearly 100 years, have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs. Because of their diverse 7,000 plus membership and their exceptional programs, children and adults have the opportunity to learn powerful lessons in community, character-building, skill development, and healthy living-lessons that can be learned nowhere else.
This is an opportunity to support Mountain Camp's mission to send more deserving kids to camp, as well as the ACA's mission to enrich the lives of children, youth and adults through the camp experience.
Please donate online when you register for 2009 !
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Check out the new Website and Camp Voices Video!
If you haven't been to the Mountain Camp website in a while, check it out! We recently gave the entire website a face lift with great new photos and features. We are especially excited about the completion of the new Camp Voices video - available online at the end of the week !
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 Going Green as a Camp
As we all strive to do what we can for the long term health of our environment, Mountain Camp is proud to have a long history of environmental awareness and we continue to look for new ways to make our camp more green.
In the last five years we have reduced the amount of "paper" needed to run Mountain Camp by:
- Replacing the printed newsletters with fun electronic newsletters.
- Encouraging families to register online and emailing invoices to parents.
- Publishing Parent Packets online so parents and campers can read electronically.
- Fun Fact: Mountain Camp was one of the 1st ACA camps to offer online registration and has done so since 2002!
- At camp, we have used recycled building products as well as Trex decking and Hardiplank™ sidings for the cabin walls. Hardiplank™ has been used in a majority of the construction over the past 15 years. Hardiplank™ is an environmentally friendly building product that is non-combustible, long lasting, and easier to manufacture than vinyl or aluminum sidings and doesn't deplete forests like wood siding.
- Also up at camp we use a propane powered generator that provides the electricity supply to the entire campsite. Cleaner burning propane as opposed to a dirtier, cheaper diesel generator makes a major difference in lowering our carbon footprint.
- We have a great partnership with the South Tahoe Refuse Company which has a Material Recovery Facility that sorts and recycles ALL our camp refuse.
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 Staff Update
Shaelyn Dawson is working in San Francisco and just finished applying to law school, hoping to head to New York next fall. Anna Harkin just got back from her amazing trip to England where she was able to see 8 counselors from Mt. Camp! She is also very excited to start student teaching in Iowa next semester. Tim Wood has had Anna, Joel and Mark all come and stay with him at once! He is now planning a Ski trip in the states, hopefully Lake Tahoe! Jen Hunt is back in Finland, trying to stay warm and working hard at her last year of University... she can't wait to finally graduate!! Sabrina Littee has been back at school and studying hard to become an EMT! and Christine Abbotts is in Law school in the very cold north of England. She is missing camp like mad and can't wait to go back next year!
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