The First Four Weeks

A great camp is one where the days and nights don’t add up.  It’s a place where as long as a child stays, it seems like yesterday that he or she arrived and, yet -- in terms of lessons learned, experiences shared and a deep, personal growing absorbed –- it can seem like forever.

And, so, at Adirondack, we build, our program day-on-top-of day, week-on-top-of-week –- holistically and individually -- for each of our campers.  Every moment counts and makes the next so much more valuable.  Payback grows exponentially. 

It’s not just about more chances at a favorite activity. It’s about blossoming and coming into one’s own.  It’s not just about how getting up on water skis can lead to the jump on a wakeboard or how a wet exit in kayaking provides a ticket to the white water trip. It’s not even just about friendship – deep, lifelong friendships that are forged in the heat of blue-white battles and the serenity of campfire… trusting, we-can-complete-each-other’s-thought friendships that come through shared accomplishment and growing sense of self and confidence.  It is, ultimately, about just that – a growing sense of self and confidence.

And that is why we restrict our two week program and want your children for a minimum stay of four weeks. We have a job to do.  And that requires giving our campers more than just a one or two week taste of Camp.  It requires full immersion into the life that is Camp – no more fragmentation (a week or two here, another there).  It requires the magic that is -- when there is time enough that the days and nights no longer add up.