This is our last newsletter before the summer season starts! I can’t believe how fast this off-season has gone by and I’m ecstatic to get back to our mountain home. The staff and I (all 45 of them!) are itching to break out our sleeping bags, get up there, and get everything set up for the summer on June 11th!
All three of our camper sessions are full for this year – which means we will get to play with almost 300 campers up in the beautiful Trinity Alps this summer! Our family programs are not quite full yet, but sign up soon to make sure you get a spot!
As those of you that live in California know well, we didn’t get the gang buster snow year we had all hoped for and California is still facing a severe drought – but the good news is that up in Trinity County, we have gotten considerably more precipitation than in 2014. Our current water year precipitation is a little over 80% of normal, whereas last year we were only at 50% at this time. At Scott Mountain Summit we’ve gotten over 50 inches of rain this water year, whereas we only got 33 inches during the entire 2014 water year (which ends in September). We are very happy to report that Camp is looking to be in a better water situation than last year!
We’ve been counting down the days till 1st session starts on Instagram since this fall and I’d like to invite you to join us for the final sprint to the finish. Also, make sure to follow us on facebook if you’d like to get occasional updates from us about what’s going on up in the Mosquito Lake basin this summer.
See you in the mountains!
Sarah Camp
Don’t miss out on Family Days 2015!
Our three camper sessions are all full up, but it’s not too late to enroll for Family Days! Like last year, we will be running two back to back programs this year: a 4-night program where families will eat in “tribe” units – just like kids in our camper sessions do – followed by a 2-night program where everyone has meals together in central. If you can manage to get away from the city for 6 nights, enroll in both and spend a week at camp with your family! Use the button below to sign-up today before it’s full!
Family Days: Aug. 17th – 21st CampU Weekend: Aug. 21st – 23rd
2015 Fundraiser and Raffle = Success!
We want to send out a huge thank you to everyone who came out on April 19th to Radonich Ranch for the 2015 Concert Fundraiser and who purchased raffle tickets online beforehand! We raised over $9000 for our Campership Fund and YOU are who made that happen!
Thank you Dancing on Strings for the music!
Thank you Radonich Ranch and Marky Carr for the gorgeous venue!
Thank you to our volunteer STAFF for showing up at 8am to make it all happen and cleaning up so nice!
Thank you to all the individuals and business who donated so generously to the silent auction and made it so successful!
Thank you to the business who donated such delicious food and beverages so that we could so thoroughly enjoy ourselves!
We have some great photos of the event, which you can check out on Google+ or Facebook, but we’d really love to have some more. If you have any, please reply to this e-mail and share them!
The Kuttner/Mason Campership Fund
We are ecstatic to introduce this new campership fund in loving memory of Guy Kuttner and John “Moose” Mason.
Guy and Moose were lovers of high mountain wilderness, comitted environmental educators, and dedicated teachers.
For many years before their deaths, Guy and Moose met regularly with their friends Jud Ellinwood, Larry Fine, Jim Steinberg and John Triska, to celebrate the out of doors and life. Last year, to honor their memory, these four friends decided to set up a permanent scholarship fund to pay for all or part of a low-income inner city youth’s cost for two weeks of outdoor experience at Camp Unalayee.
To learn more about the fund and how you can contribute, visit our new Blog Post.
Thank you Los Bagels
Once again we want to send out a big “THANK YOU!” to Los Bagels of Arcata for hosting their annual Benefit Basketball Tournament on May 2nd. Galen and Travis made it out to compete this year and had a blast.
Thanks Los Bagels for your continued support!
Photo Contest
Ok, the last one was really hard, we’ll admit it. It was Papoose, in the southern part of the Trinities, past Grizzly Lake. Does anyone know if a Unalayee group has ever gone there?
Let’s do an easier one… Which lake is this?
As always, be the first to e-mail friends@gocampu.com with the correct answer and we’ll send you a tote bag!
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