The second session of North Star’s 72nd summer is officially underway! When we got off the bus, the staff and the 8-week campers were cheering like crazy to welcome our new campers. It was a beautiful sunny day and it dried out the puddles from last week’s rain. As the […]
One of our Intermediate campers summed it up this way. “Fourth of July is one of those days that makes you wish camp went on all year.” When you walk into the dining hall, the guys are singing and dancing. Born in the USA, Party in the USA, Proud to […]
Last night was our annual Hatchet Hunt! The Hatchet Hunt is an event where every cabin competes to try and find a hatchet hidden somewhere on camp property first. The game is a combination of a scavenger hunt and a race and requires every camper’s participation. During the hunt, the […]
It is hard to believe that it has been over a week since the busses pulled up and the first session of summer 2016 began. Now that we have finally settled into the camp routine, it is time for an update of how the session is going. We began our […]
At camp, not everything goes as planned. Tonight was supposed to be our opening Green-White Series, but the weather had other plans. Instead, we waited out the rain in the Lodge as only our guys can… Our first trips of the summer returned back to camp today with the return […]
After a busy day of swim tests, physicals, and capture the flag, we are finally underway with our normal schedule of activities. The day started with our oldest campers beginning the drive to Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada for their ten-day canoeing trip known as “The Canadian”. Our fifteen […]
All, all, all of the campers have arrived safely and North Star’s 72nd summer is officially underway! The boys arrived to a perfect Northwoods day of 77 degrees and sunny and were welcomed by the most energetic staff you could imagine, jumping up and down to celebrate their arrival. Thanks […]
Pre-camp has officially begun! As the last of our staff is making their way to the north woods from all over the world, we are ready to begin pre-camp 2016. For the next week, our staff will be participating in a one-week orientation to prepare for the campers’ arrival next […]
Sifiso Tawane returns for summer #2 at North Star. Coming from Johannesburg, South Africa, he makes the farthest journey to camp this summer. Sifiso has quite a bit of camp expereicen both in the US and in South Africa. He works with Camp Sizanani of Global Camps Africa. Global Camps […]
We still have nearly two weeks to go until the busses roll up and we can begin our 72nd summer, but that doesn’t mean things aren’t already busy at camp. Throughout the past couple of weeks, staff have started to trickle into camp to make sure that everything is […]
Fraser Ashworth comes to North Star for his first summer. The Dundee, Scotland native goes to the University of Glasgow where he is studying psychology. Like many of his countrymen, he played quite a bit of soccer and rugby growing up, but eventually settled on basketball as his main sport. […]
