Posts by Adam Trufant
Choosing the Right Summer Camp for Your Child
Summer camping is one of the great youth traditions in the United States. Over the last century, millions of young people have experienced the great outdoors, deep friendships formed in wholesome environments, and the joys of belonging to communities that often endure far past the summers of childhood. Because summer camp is often the first…
Read MoreHurricane Helene Update
Dear Camp Family, We are grateful for your many inquiries and we wish to share that all of our camp staff members are safe and accounted for. Our camp community’s warm response has been uplifting in this difficult moment. Thankfully, the camps have weathered the storm with minimal damage. Many local to us were not so…
Read More5 Tips for Healthy Screen Use at Home
In this brief post, I’d like to celebrate the simplicity that comes from time spent in the wilderness and away from cell service, wall chargers, and the like. I’d also like to give us all permission to release ourselves from the pressure of constant connectivity. Tempted as we are to document everything digitally and upload…
Read More8 Things That Made Summer ’24 The Best Summer Yet!
Fall is here! After 8 weeks of reflection and cool down, here are some insights about our recent summer operations at Kahdalea and Chosatonga! I write with quite a bit of excitement because, frankly, the summer was one of the best and most impactful summers I’ve ever witnessed. Inspiration for this post is drawn from…
Read MoreSnapshots from the Summer!
From the Directors: CKC is all about connection: connection between campers and their counselors, connection to camp culture and traditions, connection to beauty and the allure of the wild, connection among friends which promotes growth in authenticity, self esteem, and resilience, and connection to God. See some of these connections in full color below in…
Read More“Opening Day” by Emily Kasper
There are few joys in life like the opening day of a North Carolina sleepaway camp. Early that morning, the cabins stand quietly ready, creaking beams impatient for the weight of rambunctious campers to fill them once more with trunks of new stationary and old sneakers. The equipment is readied, the grass mown, the kitchens…
Read More“Privileged Seats” by Emily Kasper
You have such privileged seats- well earned- where you can watch from the front row these young ones become themselves. For these fleeing days and weeks, we too join that privilege. A brief moment earlier this week showed a beautiful example- the lightning flash of becoming. A counselor listens, ponders- during chapel she yields the…
Read More“CKC on a Sunday” by Emily Kasper
There is nothing on Earth like a summer camp on a Sunday. The campers are all present after a busy week of paddling excursions, hikes and overnights, and biking or climbing expeditions. Everyone is together- and everything has slowed down. Today we saw counselors pausing to let the youngest campers track a butterfly for longer…
Read More“The World Is In Good Hands” by Emily Kasper
Hello Camp Families and Friends! Occasionally, we welcome guests to post on our camp blog, and it is a joy to introduce Emily Kasper as a contributor. Emily has been sending her kids to camp for a few years now, and has offered to share some of her unique perspectives on our platform. A hearty…
Read MoreAntifragile Children: “YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS!”
“Find a sleepaway camp with no devices and no safetyism. Many summer camps offer children and adolescents the chance to be out in nature and away from their devices and the internet for a month or two. Under those conditions, young people attend fully to each other, forming friendships and engaging in slightly risky and…
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