Cabins S-1 and S-2 are now back from their hiking trips through the Porcupine Mountains! With their return comes a special guest blog from tripper Kacy Lebby, sharing a trip report and some great pictures. We left Thursday morning, it was 55 degree and raining as we headed up to […]
As is tradition on Friday nights, we gathered at the Council Ring for our first Friday Night Service of the summer. Every Friday the whole camp gathers for a value oriented campfire program, and the first one each summer is called “The Friendship Fire.” We hold friendship as one of […]
For tonight’s evening program, we decided to unlock the potential of our supremely talented campers. The result: Bieber Fever! We announced that tonight’s evening program was going to be a skit show in Mike Hall, and each cabin was going to put on a performance for our judges. Each cabin […]
With the crack of thunder, we were off and the Summer of 2011 was underway! The storm in Chicago was loud, though you could hardly hear it on the bus as the noise of excitement filled the bus. As we drove North, the storm relented, but the noise did not. […]
And away we go! Tonight marks the official start of our pre-camp training week. The rest of our new staff arrived today as did all of our CITs. Training began with dinner and the first major lesson for our new staff was to teach some of them the horsengoggle. This […]
In Wisconsin, if you don’t like the weather, just wait a few hours. Over the past week we’ve experienced quite the temperature roller coaster. Like many of you, we had unseasonably hot days Monday and Tuesday, with temps into the 90’s. We were remarking at that time how unusual it […]
We have no cleaver line today. No real narrative on today’s picture… just one that I took a few days ago that I wanted to share. Our group here is growing. We are now half way through our life guard course, with 20 people getting certified. Much of our administrative […]
When life gives you lemons… Carve a totem pole? Last year right around this time we realized that one of our oak trees in front of the main lodge was not doing so well. We had the tree service come in and we came to the conclusion that it couldn’t […]
Fore! Over the past several years, disc golf has become one of the more popular activities at North Star. The program started with a temporary basket brought to camp by our resident disc golf pro (and CIT Director) Jeff McCormack. Eventually we got our first set of baskets, then replaced […]
