“I remember the week of outdoor adventure that grew into the group we warmly called the Extreme Mountain Women and the slightly less well known Kraft Krew. We did everything from kayaking the upper Green River (water fall and all) bushwacking and hiking on several extensive hikes, climbing, mountian biking and other various mountain loving [...]

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Here’s a set of photos taken one day last summer during our equestrian program. It was a particularly nice day, so we took quite a lot .

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Working with leather is another of the many arts and crafts activities at Rockbrook Camp. Most popular this past year was making strap bracelets decorated with different patterns. You make the patterns by using a hammer to stamp metal shapes into the leather strap. There are also letters, so you can spell [...]

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When you go to a summer sleepaway camp, you’ll have some crazy fun. Here’s a great example of a camp game that’s popular at Rockbrook… a Shaving Cream Fight! The rules are pretty simple. Armed and ready with a can of shaving cream and dressed in your bathing suit, you run around [...]

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Here’s a map that Sarah drew of the camp back in 1992. While certainly “not to scale,” it shows the main part of camp, the Rockbrook buildings and cabin areas. There are a couple of important new things not shown on the map, too. Can you name them? What’s missing?P.S. Here’s [...]

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The gymnastics camp activity at Rockbrook is designed for girls who want to explore gymnastics as a sport for recreation and personal growth. It is one activity offered as part of our overall tradtional summer camp program and is not really for girls who want to train for gymnastics competitions (like this gymnastics camp). [...]

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The teen programs for girls offered by Rockbrook bring together several unique aspects. First of all there are all the amazing things teen girls can do at camp… everythng from outdoor adventure trips like climbing and kayaking, to arts and crafts like pottery and weaving, to sports like soccer, basketball and volleyball. There’s [...]

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We thought you’d enjoy seeing how girl summer camps like Rockbrook can be just as beautiful in the fall as in the summer. When the weather turns colder here in the mountains, the lush green of the camp forest comes alive with color, as the leaves change, fall, and decorate the camp in spectacular [...]

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Over in Lexington, Kentucky, Sarah had a chance to meet up with Una MacCarthy at the camp party there. It was a great blast from the past, from the 1980s to be exact. Una has a long history with Rockbrook, attending as a camper, working as a counselor and even filling the Program Director [...]

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Kids at Rockbrook Camp also go on great adventure trips right here in the western mountains of North Carolina where we’re located. It’s just perfect for all kinds of outdoor adventure activity. There’s backpacking through the national forests, rock climbing on all the amazing granite around here, and paddling on the wild whitewater [...]

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