Red Spruce Grove Girls, Ages 11-14
Strong hands, strong hearts
confidence in self and community Life in the Wild
Immersed in a wilderness community, campers distill daily life to the essentials. While cooking over an open fire, they create tasty meals, build shelters, learn ax and knife safety, archery and other wilderness-living skills.
Amid the knot tying and blueberry picking, campers learn resilience and self-reliance. They emerge from the experience stronger, more confident, aware and capable.
Red Spruce Grove Activities
Campers, who start off together at Indian Brook, hike to their site on a wilderness plateau. After their time living closely to the land in a small, supportive community, they return excited and eager to share their experiences and wilderness craft with other camps.
Posts from Red Spruce Grove
Building Community by Dancing, Working, and Having Fun Together.
What do the Zodiac, a bonfire, and 50’s diner have in common? Over the last two weeks, Barn Day Campers danced to the Zodiac in wacky attire (Topsy Turvy Tuesday for BDC insiders); Flying Cloud campers toted bundles of wood in their arms, and teamed up for heavier logs for the bonfire at their first […]
Banquets, A Birth, And More Good News
Yesterday we saw slow-roasted goats at Flying Cloud; summer transformed into a winter landscape at Timberlake; and tables turned into birds nests at Indian Brook. Young children enjoyed a dinner cooked over an open fire during their overnight trip at the Barn Day Camp. The sun shines today on Pickup Day for our overnight camps’ […]
I Can’t Keep Quiet
What a difference a week makes! The musical and poetic harmony of Indian Brook and Red Spruce Grove Interdependence Day performance still resonates with me: “But no one knows me, no one ever will if I don’t say something, if I just lie still Would I be that monster, scare them all away If I […]
