Hope Mountain Camp, Summer 2011

The following is from the American Cancer Society Quality of Life Manager, Amanda Childs, about the Hope Mountain Camp Summer 2011 session.

We had our Summer 2011 session of Hope Mountain Camp June 24-27 and this is my traditional recap for all of you......except this is going to be the BEST one yet!!



This year we did the same activities, but in NEW places. We camped on Friday and Saturday nights, both in amazing places. We rock climbed at Camp Hale (very beautiful and very interesting place) and we rafted the Colorado River. As per tradition, we tackled the ropes course on the last day.


Why such little commentary you may ask.... well this year I have the BEST thing ever for you all.... you get to actually SEE and FEEL camp. One of our amazing campers filmed the entire weekend and made a video!! I really really REALLY hope all of you will take the 10 minutes and watch the video ALL the way through, its so amazing and really gives you a good peak at how special Hope Mountain Camp is.. and what it means to our kids who come.

Campers with American Cancer Society employee, Amanda Childs

Campers with American Cancer Society employee, Erik Ortiz

I also want to take the time to thank the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center... Claire and the staff there really worked with me on putting together the best Hope Mountain Camp we could under our circumstances and our course director Katie Jack, remains to be the BEST we've ever had. I shutter to think what I might have to do to work with someone different :) She keeps us organized, on schedule and IN FUN. Once again, the BOEC continues to hire GREAT interns and ours this session fall into that category.  and one last huge thank you to Erik Ortiz, as you will see or saw in the video.. he is a GREAT help to me at camp and the kids ADORE him. Thanks for being there Big E. :)


The video below was produced by one of the campers, it's an incredible video that really highlights what Hope Mountain Camp is all about.