With the return of the Lake Superior trip, it’s back to the regular routine around here. Kids are back to working for stars in activities, and enjoying the water activities on yet another warm day at Deerhorn. Sports and Games is playing Star Wars on the soccer field, which is a game made up by […]

Since the Lake Superior trip was out of camp today, we decided to treat ourselves to sleeping in an extra hour. The cheers in the dining room at dinner last night with the announcement were loud! After breakfast sandwiches for breakfast, kids had two periods of activities with the same temporary groups as yesterday. This […]

The Lake Superior trip left this morning before breakfast. There are 33 kids going on this overnight adventure, up to Bayfield, WI, gateway to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. They ate breakfast at Paul Bunyan’s in Minocqua, and then headed north to Bayfield. They set up camp at the Apostle Island Campground, and then boarded […]

This week marks the halfway point in the summer, and it’s also one of the busiest…which, at camp, is saying a lot! Our Voyagers leave Friday, so there is all kinds of prep going on for that. The Lake Superior Trip leaves tomorrow and will return on Wednesday. And the weather has decided to throw […]

Sundays are a little different at Camp Deerhorn. We are always excited to get to sleep in an extra hour and have breakfast at 9. (french toast and ham) After breakfast today, teams met for team meetings to prepare for this afternoon’s big Sunday event. Spencer Ellerbusch gave the Words of Wisdom in the lodge […]

After some rain yesterday afternoon and evening, we woke to sunny skies once again. We had breakfast sandwiches on croissants and tater tots for breakfast, and then kids were off to clean their koogees and head to activities. Sports and Games played a game called Balco Ball on DK Field, which is like baseball with […]

Other than a brief rain shower this afternoon, today was another beautiful day for activities. After pancakes and sausage for breakfast, half of the kids who were here for B session headed to the big waterpark in Wausau for the day. Back at camp, everyone else had the first six activities of the session. Kids […]

We woke up this morning to more sunshine and blue skies, ready to get C session started. After breakfast of breakfast sandwiches and hash browns, the kids who stayed over were divided into temporary activity groups to do things like basketball and ultimate frisbee. We had three periods of activities this morning before having roast […]

The awards breakfast always sneaks up on us…the sessions fly by, and suddenly it’s time to wrap things up! At our awards breakfast this morning, we passed out lots of awards for Most Improved in each activity, as well as patches earned for stars in activities. Riflery high score “Sharpshooter” awards went to Canon Farrer […]

Two weeks surely does go by fast around here. Our B session ends tomorrow and it’s been a great one. Today’s weather was more of the same perfection for the end of activities and wrapping up things here at camp. After a breakfast this morning of make-your-own breakfast tacos, kids headed off to the last […]