Summer Camp Cookout

Camping pictures, recipes, and stories from the life of a camp counselor. Submit your own camp stories!!!!!!

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My campers come and we clearly have the best cabin on camp so I'm like:

But then they have to leave at the end of the session and I'm like:

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The "Point" at Camp.  Overlooking the Marsh and the Bay.

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All of your campers come to camp with their bug spray like this, and somehow they still end up with a million bites, and you still have none. WINNING!

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Everyone who doesn't work at camp feels like this when they get ready in the morning.....and I'm just like "If I'm wearing pants with pockets, I'm dressed up!"

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Camping in Ripplebrook Campground, Oregon.

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Fire pit and griddle post dinner at our campsite.

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When you get home from camp and start telling your home friends a million stories and one stops you and says,

And then....your heart just breaks

They just don't get it.

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When campers think they are doing a good job of discreetly whispering during silent rest hour:

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View of the marsh at camp from the outskirts of a wooded campsite.

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Cooking a whole chicken in a dutch oven.

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All the CIT girls are always flipping their hair like

and then they find out that half the staff has lice and they all just go

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Me and my co-counselor whenever its peanut butter pie for dessert and our campers are just like...

And then they taste it and finally are like

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You can never pass up a good patch of brier for your fire.

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My co-counselor's name is Lars and whenever he introduces himself all I can hear is:

Because I constantly have quotes from Heavy Weights in my head.

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