At High Trails, one of the in-camp activities our campers can sign up for is called “Sanborn Blogging”. Here are a few of the most recent writings generated from that activity.
High Trails has been very interesting lately. For example, the Pony Express came today at lunch. Apparently, they are showering us High Trails girls with letters and gifts this Friday. The Pony Express is basically a bunch of Big Springs boys riding horses. They seem like the comedic type of group.
Another interesting event coming recently is the river all day which I will be attending. You get driven to the river and you take tubes and go tubing down the whole river. It is a very fun and time consuming activity. I am very excited.
-Ellen Chapman
For our cabinside overnight, we went to Quicks Homestead. So first we got there and we set up our tents. Then we went to the homestead. We went inside of the house and then we headed for the barn.
We went to the end of the field and saw the bones of a dead cow about middle age. It was kind of creepy. Then we had lunch and made ice cream. It was SO GOOD!!!
Then we had dinner and played sardines. Before we went to bed, we saw horses grazing. Then we woke up and had breakfast crepes and then packed up and came back. That was our cabinside overnight.
-Maddie LeClercq
At Sanborn Western Camps, one thing that we do a lot is horseback riding.
At the barn, you get to saddle up your own horse, brush your own horse, and get ready for trail-rides, all days, or overnights. It’s very fun!
You can trot, walk, lope, or canter with your horse. You can go many places while riding. For example, the candy cane, the 4-story tree-house, Hummer Spring, or you can just ride around in the Gymkhana ring. It is very fun!
-Autymn Bradshaw
So far, my most enjoyable memory has definitely been horseback riding. I am doing so much of it, it’s crazy!
Last week I rode about 5 times! My many activities include a Saturday Special (riding), a horse overnight, 2 riding all days, one for the cabin, and one I just do, and A FOUR DAY HORSE TRIP! But of course the best part of camp is Gymkhana!
I can’t wait!
-Talia Miller
High Trails has been fun lately. We are getting excited for Thursday and Friday because we are going on our first 14,000 foot OVERNIGHT.
We have gone on 14,000 foot LONG TRIPS, but never an overnight.
We are summitting Mt. Quandary. We are anxiously counting down the hour…no….minutes….no…seconds until our departure. We are nervous yet excited–WOO-HOO!
-The Dynamic Duo, Caitlin Sweeney and Hanna Ohaus
On cabinside overnights, Cedar Lodge East explored the remains of a dead calf, we we had first mistaken for an aardvark. Though very upsetting, we were glad to have gained the knowledge of the difference between a baby cow and an aardvark, and is showed us a piece of the circle of life.
-Kara Sinkankas