Posted in Girls Camps on Sep 4th, 2008
Here’s a great old photo of girls at Rockbrook Camp enjoying their summer swimming and sliding down into the lake. We’re not sure when the photo was taken, but in the background you can see the Hillside Lodge with very little growing around it, and since that lodge now has a giant oak tree [...]
Posted in Campers on Dec 31st, 2007
“Rockbrook is a haven.
Well, that’s how it feels to me.
The crystal streams, the endless sky,
The tall and leafy trees…
I love the beauty of this place,
And all the things to do,
Like riding, swimming in the lake,
And climbing towards the blue.
Camp’s the best time of the year,
But the days - they just fly by!
Before long we’re at [...]
Posted in Games on Oct 24th, 2007
What is that thing?! Well, the kids at camp have named it “The Toy,” but it’s basically an aqua ropes-course, a climbing structure made of wood and rope suspended over the water on one side of the Rockbrook lake. The most popular game kids play on it is really challenging— you try to reach [...]
Posted in Summer Camp on Aug 6th, 2007
This Monday morning at Rockbrook started with a bang, literally! Three groups of girls were taken to Camp Carolina for Boys to compete in various activities such as riflery, archery, and tennis. The girls were triumphant in riflery, but unfortunately did not beat the boys in archery or tennis. After the tournaments the girls enjoyed [...]
Posted in Summer Camp on Jul 25th, 2007
Today the campers attending our third session arrived. We greeted everyone this morning (even after picking up a few at the airport), settled into the cabins, and got together in the dining hall for our first lunch. It was so great to see everyone, old and new campers alike, finally at camp. [...]
Posted in Hiking on Jul 19th, 2007
This is usually the most stressful time of the summer for my 15-year-old campers, because as banquet planners a day before the big night, there are usually a million more things to do and a million more reasons to stay up 24 hours straight. Thankfully, we were given a break from all of the intense [...]
Posted in Swimming on Jul 17th, 2007
Something pretty great happened to me today, down at the lake in the mid-morning hours: I joined the 440 Club. In order to join this prestigious Rockbrook organization, you have to swim 100 laps across a certain distance in the lake, and once you complete those 100 laps (440 meters), you get to go to [...]
Another amazing trip we take while at camp is to Sliding Rock in the Pisgah Forest. Only a few miles from camp, we’ll take a whole group of girls over for a few trips down the natural water slide. It’s tons of fun! You walk to the top of the slide, sit [...]
And speaking of relay races… here’s another classic summer camp activity. It’s the greased watermelon! There are several versions of this, but basically you take a good sized watermelon, coat it with shortening, toss it in the water (yep, it floats) and then you try to push it through the water as a [...]
Posted in Summer Camp, Swimming on Mar 21st, 2007
Ready for a dip in the Rockbrook Camp lake? It’s always “refreshing” , which is our way of saying, “chilly, chilly, chilly.” This is because the lake is fed by a true mountain stream that runs down Rockbrook Falls nearby. Jumping in on a hot summer day feels just great.
Ready for that [...]
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