Author: Maridy Carpenter

It was a great end to the week for our Rocks Ropes and Boats campers. We spend the day at the beach swimming, making friendship bracelets, rock jumping and collecting lake glass!  

Thursdays are nature hike day for our Rocks Ropes and Boats summer campers. Today we learned about trees, geology, insects, beavers, flowers, and so much more…

River Camp has been great so far! The campers have been swimming, rock jumping, and have been learning a ton of rappelling skills this week!

Checking in from River Camp! The campers have been having an amazing time so far. They started off with a great day of team bonding on the ropes course and then headed off to Scott Russell Station for the rest…

Our Rocks Ropes and Boats campers pushed themselves by climbing and rappelling at River Rock. We then went down to the Truckee River to cool off and splash around!

We were privileged to host Safe Embrace (the largest safe house in Reno, helping victims become survivors). What an EXTRAORDINARY team! They provide such a vital service to our community, and they arrived ready, willing and able to push themselves…

Our campers are having a great start to the week on the Project Discovery Course. So far the kids have enjoyed getting to know each other on low elements and pushing their limits on the highs. Their big reward for…

Another great week of Rocks Ropes and Boats. We beat the heatwave by enjoying beautiful Lake Tahoe! It was so much fun swimming, tubing, making friendship bracelets and rock jumping.

This session of River Camp was great! We got to stay at Scott Russel station, day trip to the emerald pools at rock creek where we cliff jumped, went down water slides, repelled, and caught newts, saw the largest steam…

DPSEF had an awesome day at the course challenging themselves and growing as a team. We were stoked to get them through elements low on the ground and high in the trees!