ABOUT CAMP
Dunmore: A Sleep-Away Camp for Boys, Ages 8-16
Established in 1910, Keewaydin Dunmore is one of the oldest and most venerable camps in the country. Today, our campus spreads along the entire bay on the north end of Lake Dunmore, a clean, stream-fed lake, in the Green Mountains of Vermont which is ideal for all of our waterfront activities. With over 500 acres of lovely hardwood forest, the location and grounds are perfect for hikes, camp-outs and adventures that help our campers learn about the natural world.
There are approximately 200 campers at Keewaydin. To give each boy the best possible summer experience, campers are divided into four age groups, or "wigwams."
Annwi - 8 to 10 year olds
Waramaug - 10 to 12 year olds
Wiantinaug - 12 to 14 year olds
Moosalamoo - 14 to 16 year olds
Each wigwam is, in many ways, its own small camp—separately located—with an experienced director and staff, waterfront area, campfire circle, play area, boats and a program geared for that particular age group.
While Keewaydin provides boys with new experiences that allow them to develop self-confidence, maturity and character, we never forget that a constant of camping days is to have fun. In addition to the many great activities and trips that we offer, we structure plenty of supervised free-time into each day so that kids can relax and pursue individual interests: playing Frisbee on the ball field, swimming in Lake Dunmore, catching frogs in the lagoon, fishing off the dock, or simply reading a book!
Our campers come from over two dozen states and various foreign countries. They represent different religions, races, cultural backgrounds, and socio-economic backgrounds. Each boy is valued for who he is.
Welcome to the unique place that is Songadeewin. We're delighted that you are interested in going to summer camp and pleased that you've decided to have a look at our camp which we affectionately call: "Songa."
Songa is a place where girls have a great time, learn new skills, achieve independence, and make wonderful friends at a beautiful campsite on Lake Dunmore in Vermont. It is different from any other place you're likely to have been before. At Songadeewin we work to create a special community for girls where you can learn to become "a tall, strong, Songa woman."
One of our former, five-year campers recently wrote about Songa in her college essay. Here's what she had to say:
"My special place is where meals are still served family style, where the camp is not specialized, where technology has not taken over, and traditions are [adhered] to above everything else. The experiences I've had at Songadeewin will remain with me forever. It was my place where I could act like a girl but learn how to become a woman. Up at camp you are there to discover who you are and have miles of open water to do just that."
Keewaydin Temagami remains true to the vision of our founder, A.S. Greg Clarke "The Commodore", who wanted to start a camp that focused on time out of base camp, on canoe trips. Today we look much the same as we did in 1893; paddling in wood canvas canoes, using tump lines to portage canoes, equipment, and wannigans (the wooden boxes which we carry food and equipment.) Sections travel the surrounding wilderness waterways, often portaging from lake to lake or up and down rivers, making camp at new spot each night, sleeping in tents with one or two other campers.
We offer canoe trips for boys and girls ages 10 through 18. Each season we enroll about 150 campers, both girls and boys, who are assigned to wigwams based on age, experience and physical maturity. Each wigwam is split into smaller tripping groups of 4-8 campers called "sections", all of which are single gender. The duration and difficulty of the trips is determined by the age and level of experience of each section. We pride ourselves on placing each camper in the group that ensures a positive experience. For this reason camper's applications are carefully reviewed by the staff and placed in sections of similar age, maturity and experience.
Meals are cooked over open fires and sections prepare all of their food from scratch. Typical breakfasts are hot cereals, such as oatmeal or cream of wheat, and on special occassions pancakes and bacon. Lunches and dinners often include spaghetti, chili, stews, and curries. Meals are always made with a focus on good healthy calories. We do quite a bit of baking using our reflector ovens - from basic baking powder breads called bannock, to doughnuts, yeast breads and cinnamon rolls.
Most Keewaydin Temagami campers are in the 10-15 year old age bracket and take trips of five, ten and even twenty-one days right from our island base camp, Devil’s Island.
Returning campers can spend the summer at the Evans Outpost on Lake Kawaweogama at the southern end of Wabakimi Provincial Park. They ride a train 18 hours west to Keewaydin's cabin, where they take trips of varying lengths and difficulty.
The oldest campers - 16, 17 and 18 years old will take six or seven week expeditions, the longest of which, the Hudson Bay Trip, is our culminating experience for campers and concludes on Hudson Bay.
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In a noisy, hectic world, it’s easy to believe that places steeped in nature’s soothing silences have vanished forever, and lasting tranquility is no longer possible to find.
But spend just a single hour at Ojibway Lodge and you’ll discover that these and many other things you thought were gone for good can be still be had.
In the northern reaches of Lake Temagami, a magnificent north woods eden is waiting. You’ll find it along wilderness shores that stretch for 4,800 untouched kilometers across a timeless dominion blessed with 1,500 hidden island jewels. This is the land of Ojibway. And it’s yours to wander.
Feed Your Soul & Refresh Your Spirit
Leave the world behind and enter a spectacular realm of primeval forest magic filled with wonders great and small. Journey into deep groves of ancient pine, birch and cedar, and revel in an unbreakable stillness broken only by birdsong and the call of loon and owl.
Here, you start each morning with a breath of Earth’s clearest, most unspoiled air and cup your hands to lake waters so pure you can quench your thirst without a second thought. Long leisurely hours carry you past shimmering vistas to moments of serenity that end only when you’re ready, and vibrant wildlife and myriad birds beckon on every trail. Time, at last, slows to a perfect crawl as high summer’s sun lingers far into the evening. Then the spectacle of night arrives and a blazing starlit eternity arcs overhead to fill newly opened eyes with awe.
Welcome to Devil’s Island and Ojibway Lodge. You’ll have to work a little bit to get here. But then again, that’s exactly why you’ve come.
Tanya McCubbin assumed the role of manager in 2012, following the retirement of Sandy Chivers, who ran Ojibway for 28 summers. Before assuming the position, Tanya worked for years at Keewaydin as head cook, then business manager. A talented chef, who ran her own catering business for a number of years, Tanya brings a friendly laugh and a caring attitude to the lodge, making sure everyone is made to feel welcome and at home. She is joined by her family every summer: sons Malcolm (a Keewaydin trip leader) and Hudson (a Keewaydin camper) and husband Rob, a teacher, and an invaluable do-it-all guy. During the off season, the McCubbin family resides about an hour south of Temagami, in North Bay, Ontario.
经历了…
1095天
186000公里
Soucamp，由乐行机构倾力打造
为青少年精选全球
5大洲，
26个国家，
5372个营地，
24185个活动项目，
It is all for LOVE.
So，Camping！
