Dear Campers, Parents, Staff, Alumni, and Friends,
After a long, hot, dry summer, it finally rained a bit here at the Bar 717 Ranch. Barn Hill and the upper field are back to their familiar shade of green, and Grassy Flats Creek is flowing once again. Everywhere I look, a faint fuzz of new shoots sprouts beneath the dried stems of last year’s grass.
Autumn’s longer nights and cooler days bring a change in priorities here on the Ranch. We’ve spent the last month packing up platforms and putting away Program Areas. Now, the first frost of the season will be here any day, and it’s time to prepare the gardens, buildings, and animals for the coming winter. Mulching planting beds, cover cropping the Lower Garden, draining pipes, and gathering firewood occupy our days. It is a beautiful time of year, but the nippy morning air hints of the coming change of seasons, adding urgency to the work at hand.
The summer of 2015 will be our 85th year of Camp Trinity on the Bar 717 Ranch. We think that is cause for a celebration---and so we will! Mark you calendar for the 85th Reunion and Celebration, to be held over the Labor Day weekend, September 4-7th 2015 at the Ranch. Everyone is welcome: campers, alumni, staff, parents, friends and families. You can sign up to attend anytime through our website at: http://www.bar717.com/enroll/.
85 years of camping equals 85 years of fun, friendships, and memories. In preparation for the 85th Reunion Weekend, we would like to (re)connect with everyone who has been a camper, a counselor, or a staff member here on the Ranch going all the way back to 1930, so if you know someone who might want to be on our mailing list, please refer them to us here: http://bit.ly/bar717campservations.
All the best to you from all of us here on the Ranch,
Kent Collard, Director
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