By Jessica | Manager, Marketing & Outreach
Trailblazers just completed another successful camp season in 2012!
The majority of campers were returning to Trailblazers to be reunited with old friends. We also had new campers at each of our camps! There may have been a nervous faces on the trip to camp, but boats/buses/vans were full of smiles and laughter we dropped campers off after a weekend full of fun. One camper describer Trailblazers as ‘Heaven’, because its different from everywhere else. At Trailblazers we can share experiences, learn from each other, but more importantly be kids having fun at camp!
This year thanks to a generous donation we were able to fly campers from Alberta out to Vancouver to join in the British Columbia camp. We spent three lovely days at Camp Fircom on Gambier Island. Camper Rebecca was tentative to dip her toe into the ‘freezing’ ocean for the first time, but after a voyager canoe paddle could not get enough of swimming in the pacific!!
Our Ontario camp had 38 campers making it the biggest Trailblazers camp to date! Camper challenged themselves on the high ropes course and rock wall at Camp Medeba. There was also drumming, dancing and even trampolining!
Our Nova Scotia camp had lots of rain, but that didn’t stop campers from polar bear dips, nature hikes and releasing newly hatched monarch butterflies into the sky at Camp Brigadoon.
Camper Xaira in Manitoba didn’t want presents for her birthday, instead she asked for donations to Trailblazers! She and fellow campers enjoyed horseback riding, swimming outside and the rockwall at Camp Arnes.
Newfoundland campers look forward to Trailblazers all year, because they get to be reunited with friends from past camps. This year we had a camper drive 3 days to join us at Lavrock retreat centre! There were smiles, laughter, swimming, canoeing and of course epic rounds of capture the flag.
Check out photos on our website:
http://www.aboutface.ca/galleries.php
Thanks for all of the support.
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