Let’s Beat the Heat!

It’s hard to beat the heat when you’re at camp… but we’re trying by learning how to set up camp… inside!

We managed to beat the heat with the tents… but we couldn’t manage to fit the rock wall inside the Casa Catalina Thanks to our friends at GoArmy.com we were able to have a rock wall at camp again this week. It was a piece of cake compared to the real rock climbing the girls did on Mt Lemmon this week, but fun all the same! Here’s some pics from the rock wall:

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Mysteries of the Pond

Dude! We hiked all the way out to the pond and it was all dried up! It just had a layer of slime on it… ewww. But it was fun to look at for a little while. Makes you think about all the little animals that live at the Hacienda. I wonder where they are getting their drinking water from if our ponds are all dried up? I wonder if they all travel over to the Golf Course to get their water? I wonder where we would have to get our drinking water from if we depended on the water at the Hacienda. Both ponds were dried up and so we ended up at the pond behind the Straw Bale house where there was a really neat layer of some organism with cool things growing on it. Sweet! I’ll try and upload some pictures a little later!

Camp Fury was a HUGE Success!

Camp Fury ended today a huge success with a graduation ceremony and a parent expo! Twenty Four Campers were challenged throughout the week by the elements, fears and each other. They pulled fire hoses, rescued “Bernie” in full gear in the dark, rappelled from a six story building, climbed a 105 ft aerial ladder, trudged through a mud pit in full gear with working hoses and woke up extra early for Physical Training each morning. At night, they relaxed and got to know each other better, building leadership skills and self confidence. Each of these girls left the Public Safety Academy today with new experiences, memories, a whole new level of confidence, new friends and new aspirations.

More on Camp Fury to come! Meanwhile, you can check them out on Facebook!