Camp La Junta Weekly Updates

Camp La Junta News March 1, 2012 As I sit in my office, trying to block out the noise of the gravel truck – gravel truck as in the one working on paving the road from the water slide to the office, removing the quaint pot holes that have become a drivers sport around here [...]

Camp La Junta News January 2, 2012 We wholeheartedly disagree that “the best part of the holidays is the end”.  We do however love to get back in the office in January.  That’s when the real fun begins.  All of the fall and holiday season is about wrapping up and getting ready.  January marks time [...]

December 15, 2011 Happy Holidays from CLJ Although it feels a little repetitious to declare that “it seems like just yesterday that camp ended”, it indeed seems like just yesterday that camp ended.  All of the things we plan to do, plan to finish and plan to plan are just about to be needed.   “Where [...]

Weekly News – The Daily Tatler December 1, 2011 As much as we’d like you to believe that we’ve been swimming laps in the river and rapelling off of the La Junta sign since camp, we thought you’d like an update on some of the things that have been going on.  (between laps and rapelling). [...]

Weekly News September 1, 2011 The kayaks are put away.  The cabins have been swept.  We’ve all returned from family vacation and now it’s time to move forward toward the summer of 2012. We’ve had an awesome resonse form 2011 campers, many of whom have already registered for 2012.  Today we will begin accepting return [...]

Notes From the Director July 29, 2011 As the summer winds down at CLJ, it’s always a melancholy time for us.  Certainly there’s the fatigue of 16 hour days for almost nine weeks.  But there’s also the fact that we won’t get to see such activity in our front yard for almost 10 months. Most [...]

It was the perfect time of the day to be wrapping up the First Term 2011 Tophand Gauntlet Challenge.

One of the most fatiguing weeks of the year is staff training.

So how many of you vote that we just sit around the new office and watch cartoons while we wait for camp to start? I thought this might be a great opportunity to give you a quick look into what happens during this final week before staff training.

It only takes one season to forget (block out) just how busy things get around here when Spring arrives. This year is certainly no exception. Things are wild. A good wild. But wild.