I learned in church today

[SCcoug]

I bet those guys look like idiots standing in the elevators surrounded by tailored suits in their green shorts and too tight khaki shirts.

They'd be rocking the dress uniform.

[pellegrino]

I don't know but the church has to have a good amount of money into just the Heber Valley girl's camp. Just the retaining wall for the road leading into the place had to cost more than I want to think about. Not to mention all the volunteered time from folks that work on it and senior missionaries that run it. I can't think of any scout/YM's camps like that the church owns. Does the average stake pay for girl's camps like this out of their budgets?

Our stake recently purchased a camp with a few other neighboring stakes. It's a modest facility that is run by senior missionaries. It is used for girls camp, but it's also open to any member who wants to reserve it. Most of our scouts' overnighters are now held there as well as the father and sons campout.

I don't know this Heber Valley facility, is it open only to YW camps?

[kccougar]

Our stake recently purchased a camp with a few other neighboring stakes. It's a modest facility that is run by senior missionaries. It is used for girls camp, but it's also open to any member who wants to reserve it. Most of our scouts' overnighters are now held there as well as the father and sons campout.

I don't know this Heber Valley facility, is it open only to YW camps?

Families can reserve spots there on weekends during the summer when Girls' Camp is not in session and scout are allowed to use it after they shut down for the winter.

[pellegrino]

Families can reserve spots there on weekends during the summer when Girls' Camp is not in session and scout are allowed to use it after they shut down for the winter.

so YW groups get first dibs? Is that how it works?

[Northwestcoug]

This reminds me I got a donaton solicitation from the BSA Greater New York Council the other day. Return address: Empire State Building, 78th floor.

This doesn't bother me. If it was on the top floor of the ESB, then yeah, that's extravagant. But I assume the rent for the 78th floor is dirt cheap, right?

[TripletDaddy]

Camp Sariah? Camp Rebekah?

creepy.

[kccougar]

so YW groups get first dibs? Is that how it works?

Not just first dibs. It is a dedicated YW Camp, run by missionaries. Like I said, they allow families to come in and use the pavillions/camp sites on Friday nights during the summers after the girls have gone home and then once they shut down at the end of the summer, they let scout troops come in and camp there, though none of the facilities (ropes courses, boats, etc) are available.

[LVAllen]

Camp Sariah? Camp Rebekah?

creepy.

That's one page. The full set of maps is 10 freaking pages long, and includes Camps Lucy Mack Smith, Esther, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Abish, Bertha Stone Reeder, Eliza R. Snow, and Minerva Teichert. Each equipped with its own ampitheater and pavilion.

https://www.lds.org/locations/campin...861?lang=eng#3

[Omaha 680]

That's one page. The full set of maps is 10 freaking pages long, and includes Camps Lucy Mack Smith, Esther, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Abish, Bertha Stone Reeder, Eliza R. Snow, and Minerva Teichert. Each equipped with its own ampitheater and pavilion.

https://www.lds.org/locations/campin...861?lang=eng#3

I hope Camp Eliza R. Snow has a unicycle course.

[Donuthole]

And OW says women are underrepresented in the Church.

[TripletDaddy]

That's one page. The full set of maps is 10 freaking pages long, and includes Camps Lucy Mack Smith, Esther, Marjorie Pay Hinckley, Abish, Bertha Stone Reeder, Eliza R. Snow, and Minerva Teichert. Each equipped with its own ampitheater and pavilion.

https://www.lds.org/locations/campin...861?lang=eng#3

Do they have a "Camp Law of Sarah?"

[BigFatMeanie]

I love how they have specific "Priesthood Tent Site" locations marked on the map.

[TripletDaddy]

I love how they have specific "Priesthood Tent Site" locations marked on the map.

there also seems to be a new emphasis on volleyball

[Clark Addison]

Camp Fanny Alger for the Beehive day camps.

[kccougar]

I love how they have specific "Priesthood Tent Site" locations marked on the map.

Why do you love that?