July 6

One of our classic Camp evening programs made its return this week: Counselor Hunt! The evening starts in Castle, where campers gather to hear the rules while counselors quickly change into all black in hopes of improving their hiding skills. Once the rules are explained, the counselors are given ten minutes to scatter across Camp and find the perfect hiding spot. Then, the hunt begins!

Of course, the challenge doesn't end once a camper spots a counselor. To officially "claim" them, campers have to know the counselor's first and last name, their cabin, and at least one activity they teach. Campers race all over Camp searching everywhere they can think of, while counselors do their best to stay hidden for as long as possible.

To make things even more competitive, cabins are divided into Grey and Green teams. Each counselor is worth a certain number of points, and every cabin contributes to their team's total score throughout the night. Once a counselor has been found, campers escort them down to the swim docks, where our Evening Program Queens keep track of which cabins found which counselors and tally up the points.

After about an hour of searching, we ring the bell and everyone makes their way down to the waterfront, including the counselors who somehow managed to avoid being found. Then comes the best part: the penalty for being found is jumping into the lake! One by one, counselors took the plunge while the Evening Program Queens revealed how many points each person was worth. In quite the upset, every JC (or at least the 21 out of 24 who were found!) turned out to be worth negative 1,000 points, much to the disappointment of the campers.