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We have more than 300 emails for camp alumni, but over the last couple of years some of you have moved or changed your email accounts.

Please send your new email and emails of other alumni to campstephensalumni@gmail.com so that we can update our list of camp alumni.

If you have an idea for a blog entry or wish to contribute other material like letters, recipes, diary entries, trip maps. . .send them my way.

If any links are broken, please tell me.

And don't be bashful. It's OK to comment. Really. It's OK.


Friday, January 12, 2018

"There is nowhere I'd rather be" - 1991 Girls Three Week Journal


The 1991 Girls Three Weeker: Left to right: Nicole, Heather, Shannon, Janice, Jessie, Lori, Jenny, Sophie and Cathy.

Here's the journal of the 1991 Girls Three-Week trip. 

Former camp director Bob Picken sent to me a couple of weeks ago. 

"I was cleaning out another filing cabinet and found the attached journal," Bob says. "I forgot I had it stashed away.  I thought it might make a good post on the alumni page.  I will have the original brought to camp this summer."




Our memories of these years on trail and at camp dims with the responsibilities of getting older, the challenges of being a parent  and our careers - and all the things life throws at us.

It puts a lot of distance from then to now. 

What doesn't change is the friendships.

"Trail is a chance for one to find oneself," Nicole Fenton writes on page 23. "It's also a chance to make the kind of friend you don't or almost never make in the city. A friend with whom you can be yourself, perfectly natural. They've seen you at your worst and at your very best."
Enjoy, Bruce


Trip "plaque" hanging in the depot.