“All Boys Should Go to Deerhorn”
Today’s blog post is another essay written by a Deerhorn camper, Will Matthei-Schmidt. Truly, we love reading these and hearing a camper’s first person perspective about what life at Deerhorn is like. I love Will’s essay, because it shows such growth. Will came to Deerhorn for the first time this summer, as a 10 year […]
“Goosebumps”
Today’s blog post comes from an essay written by Matt Mastrapa. Matt was a camper for 6 years and returned in 2015 to be an assistant counselor. He wrote the essay after the summer of 2014, his last as a camper. Thanks, Matt, for sharing what you learned at Deerhorn! I woke up with my […]
Choosing
How is it possible that one job as a camp director can be the best part of our job as well as the worst? On the one hand, we are making dreams come true for four longtime Deerhorn campers. On the other hand, we are sharing news of disappointment to their peers who were not […]
And Then All Was Quiet…
It’s been five days since camp officially ended. Usually I write a blog on the last day of Father Son camp, bringing the summer to a close. But somewhere along the way that last day, as I said goodbye to so many good friends, helped take down camp in the driving rain, and took a […]
Fishing and Fun!
The day dawned a little dreary but the rain held off until this afternoon. Fathers and sons took full advantage of the morning and headed out for more trips to the Rave, horseback rides, and lots of shooting at the archery range. Today was also guided fishing day, so most of our families jumped at […]
What Rain?
So our luck ran out a little on the weather today as we woke up to dark skies and pouring rain…but “Rain by seven, sun by 11.” as Big D used to say. The morning was pretty rainy, so some dads and sons took field trips to play laser tag, see movies, or go bowling. […]
Good Friends, Good Times
We welcomed another awesome set of dads and sons today for our final session of the summer, Father Son 4. Many of them have been to camp before, but there are also lots of new faces joining the Deerhorn Family. We were blessed with incredible weather, lots of warmth for swimming and wind for sailing. […]
Smiles & Tears
This morning was the D session awards breakfast, and it was full of emotion, songs, cheers, and lots of great speeches. The Deerhorn Sharpshooter award for top scores in riflery went to Henry Wolfe for juniors, Drew Bagnoli for intermediates, and Jack Hallinan for seniors. The tennis tournament champions were James Theriault for the 11 […]
The Water Campfire
What a day…it’s hard to put into words the last day of a Deerhorn summer…but I will try! We’ll get the menu out of the way first…cinnamon toast for breakfast, pizza bagels for lunch, and chicken fajitas for dinner. It doesn’t get much better than that. And the weather…the sun shone most of the day, with […]
Klepton & Other Fun
Every day, the Sports & Games counselors get up at breakfast to announce what game they will be playing that day. As I have mentioned before, some are your traditional sports like baseball or soccer, but others are games 100% made up by counselors at Deerhorn. And every day when that counselor gets up to […]