Each day started with a classroom experience in the recently renovated camp classroom.
Here, Jack Strickland with the Walk Through the Bible program leads students through an animated classroom session.

Students spent a portion of the afternoon and/or evening working for the camp.  This involved everything from cleaning wash rooms, vacuuming, and doing dishes,to helping the camp staff with their outdoor evening youth programming with the many public school groups.

These first three weeks served as a huge bonding experience.   Students lived in very close quarters, with hardly enough room for themselves (to say nothing of all the suitcases and gear they brought for their first three months.)   Students are insisting that we do this again next year because of the way in which they were all able to get to know each other as well as they did.

Andrew and Guido throw a few chords to the wind. 

             Students have formed several teams to lead music and worship.

Someone discovered the local thrift store in Sundre had interesting clothes.
All the clothing you could stuff into a shopping bag for $5.00 had this group
dressed to kill for a fine camp dining experience and some trick keyboard work.

On the second weekend, team leaders Susan, J., and Steve
took everyone on a three-day mountain adventure.             
It was cold and rainy on the first day, sunny and warm the
second, and hot on the third.  Each person spent a day
horseback riding, a day rock climbing, and one day
mountain hiking. It was a time again to bond, and to see just
who it was that we would be living with over the next seven
or eight months. In a creative (however misguided) time around
the campfire, students and staff alike were considered and given
a nickname.  Some of these have unfortunately stood the test of time.

The crossing contained some of the more exciting  moments of a day already full of  surprises and beautiful vistas.

Here are two very different responses to the temperature and exhilaration of a day's climb.

Overall, the weather was  marvelous while we were at camp Evergreen,
and the scenery stunning.     From time to time even the moose (mooses?) wandered through the camp in the mornings, quite oblivious to the raw energy gathering in the bodies of students who for the most part rolled out of bed just in time for breakfast.  (Or class)