Summer Progress-part 1

Cabins Complete! This summer was our first summer using our new cabins. They are beautiful! The porch gives a wonderful place for campers to congregate and the facilities are a big improvement from the rustic seasonal ones. The only down fall of them is that they are sort of hot in the summer. They are insulated for year round use and that insulation works very well! The sky lights are beautiful and work very well, the light they let in makes it so we do not needs lights most of the day. That light also comes with heat though and that heat gets trapped in there. We will be brainstorming ideas for next summer to help keep it cooler in there...thin shades that pull over the sky light from the inside that let in indirect light, window fans, etc. Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

Cabins-bunkbeds arrived!

We have so much going on right now I am going to post a few things...

The Cabins are 95% complete! The bunkbeds arrived today and are being assembled and the mattresses arrive tomorrow! They look SO amazing! It is hard to believe that the old cabins are under there somewhere.

New Ropes Courses!

As part of the reallocating of land, we are getting ownership of the Climbing Tower that we share with Camp Woodson. We also got a new High Ropes Course and a new Low Ropes Course. Both of these courses are built with the same elements but will be with new material so they will last longer. They are also centrally located for ease of use. We will continue to share the courses with Camp Woodson.

Indian Cabin relocation

The Indian Cabin is being relocated to another area of camp and the process it goes through is really quite interesting. They started by numbering each piece of wood and taking it apart log by log. They have removed the porch and the roof. The whole top floor is gone also. When they take it apart, they pay each section in it's own pile and move it pile by pile to the new area for re-assembly.

Lodge Progress

The Lodge is getting more attention now that the cabins are almost done. They have let the foundations on the 2 new sides and have started the flooring for both. The back wing that is going to be the teaching kitchen has had screening filled and packed and they are starting the concrete floors. The addition with the bathrooms has had the foundation set and the subfloors are coming along. They started scrapping shingles off today too.

Looking Good!

Well we are getting close to the cabins being done and they are looking fabulous! The walls are painted in the sleeping areas, the bathroom walls and tiles are finished and the floors were stripped and finished this weekend. I was amazed to see how good the floors looked, I am hoping that we can gradually do the same for the remaining cabins over the next few years.

The braces for the benches on the front porch have been installed and painted. One of the cabins has the screened doors on the front porch installed too. The concrete ADA parking spaces and ramps have been poured. This week we have the punchlist checklist meeting, so we can see how much is left.

The bunkbeds and mattresses have been ordered. They are the same as the ones in the Mountain View Lodge (formerly the Staff House). They will be in a natural Honey Oak finish with navy blue mattresses.

MVL is complete & cabins are coming along

The Mountain View Lodge is now complete! They added doors onto the living room area and the kitchen entrance from the main hallway. They added a new layer of drywall to the entire living room area and mezzanine. The upgrades were required by the Fire Marshal for our occupancy numbers. It gives the bedrooms some more privacy and it looks great!

The Cabins are moving along at lightening speed as usual. They have painted the exterior of one of the cabins, have the skylights in and have began the interior insulation. They have also started the benches that will line the inside of the screened in porches.

The Lodge is not slated to be complete before camp starts so they are focusing all their efforts on the cabins till they are done. Until then, they are doing demo and getting the foundational stuff done in the lodge. They have found some floor issues where the old walk-in cooler was and they keep running into underground springs that have to be redirected so the footers can be poured for the foundations. Look what color the lodge used to be!