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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids both went last year.  One did a general camp and the other did a specialty camp.  Neither camp seemed to be especially good.

Both kids were unimpressed by the activities and thought there was a lot of waiting around.  For instance, they did archery one afternoon, but each kid only was allowed to shoot one arrow.  It took a lot of time to get everyone ready and out of the unit to the activity, then there was a long safety training, all for 30 seconds of an activity.  For the specialty camp, they only did the specific activity on one day and all the other days were just normal camp.  (This wasn't clear from the description.).  On top of that the group for the specialty activity was too big so it was a lot of waiting and not very fun because they didn't get to do much. 
The rest of camp was lots of friendship bracelets and tie dye, both of which my kids have done a million times.

I'd try a different camp.[/quote]

This was our experience at two different camps (May Flather and Winona). My daughters had an ok time but the camps were not well-run with little supervision, particularly Winona (although I've heard it has a different director now). For rock climbing it was as PP described for archery, a lot of waiting around for 30 seconds of activity, and only one day for the specialty activity and then a lot of tie-dye and friendship bracelets the rest of the time.

I'll add that my daughter was in 2 of the 80+ photos of the rockclimbing camp. I get that they can't guarantee that your kid will be in photos but there was literally a photo of every other camper in her group rock climbing and in the end of camp skit. My kid was in the original group photo and in a photo with a bandana covering her entire face and holding onto a rope with a very large camp counselor standing over with a pool noodle looking like she was going to beat her with it (which apparently was the activity, disturbing as that sounds).

The other camp was even worse. My Brownie camper watched the counselors perform a start of camp skit, watched the counselors have a camp "beauty pageant" and watched the counselors have an impromptu camp wedding (officiant, couple getting married, bridesmaids, etc). She spent so much time sitting around watching the counselors do all of this that they never got to the activities that they were actually supposed to do (obstacle course, slingshots, etc.). Complete waste of time and money.

You get what you pay for. I'd look into more traditional camps.[/quote]

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