When Jaden Uram, a most accomplished Varsity Club hiker, returned from that venture on Webster Slide Mountain, he reported that “the hike was a bit harder than I remembered.” The heat and humidity had everything to do with it, I assured him and everyone else.
A couple of days in the soup does tend to tire one out and we were all for it when Rob Wiff declared last evening to be a movie night, starting right after dinner and ending early enough to get the boys off to bed well before their normal times. There was tons of heat lightning in the sky but no real storms hit us directly. I am told they cut the movie short to get boys up the hill and into bunks just in case. Good calls all around.
Yesterday afternoon featured just two major activities, a “California Beach Day “on the waterfront and a volleyball tournament on Pines Field. I spent both blocks on the docks (and in the drink myself,) it being too hot to even consider the few steps needed to reach the volleyball pitch. Sara got some nice photos of the games, and the participants themselves announced no real winners as the fun was simply in the doing. Good camp.
In my photos, at the end of my album, you see a few pics of boys in the council circle with raised arms. Rob had asked for a show of hands by those who had been in the lake at some point during the day. Only one of two older campers, lazy bones by nature, did not affirm.
Look, if someone offered the camp a million dollars to outfit the cabins and other buildings with Heat/AC units, we would not accept a nickel. Boys develop some resilience at camp and this is not only a terrific thing to witness but one of our main reasons for even being!
I had my eyes on the full-summer campers at breakfast this morning, to see if they might be a tad more slow in gait than some of the newer arrivals. Just the opposite. These guys are fully conditioned to camp by now and do not seem to care a lick about something as silly as a dose of humidity in the air.
The longer the camp tenure the better. I’m just sayin’