Camp Wood Haven - Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania

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luau. Continue your refreshing water activities with a creek hike, a water balloon fight, and a visit to Sweet Arrow Lake to go canoeing. Star Trekkers August 4-9 Entering Grades: 4-5 Cost: $330 Hiking in daytime can be fun, but hiking at twilight is fantastic! Join your friends for night time games like flashlight tag, glow in the dark archery and moonlight hikes. Plan a stargazing sleepover, take a tour of the summer night sky as well as a planetarium. PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS 6TH GRADE AND ABOVE Ghostbusters July 14-19 • August 4-9 Entering Grades: 7-12 Cost: $460 Explore the mysteries of Gettysburg while you spend three days and two nights there. Take the Ghosts of Gettysburg tour –voted the #1 ghost tour in the world— and experience an interactive tour that features hands-on methods of ghost investigation. Assist in a ghost hunt, and bring your cameras to document the event! During the day, you’ll have the opportunity to visit the Gettysburg Visitor Center, tour the battlefield, visit the Jenny Wade House, and lots more. Horseback Rider June 23-28 • June 30 - July 5 • July 7-12 • July 14-19 • July 21-26 • July 28 - August 2 • August 4-9 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $370 Beginners and horseback riders of all experience levels are welcome in the ring! Learn and improve your English or Western riding skills at your own pace. Weather permitting; you will have five mounted lessons either in the ring or on the trail. While not at the barn you will have time to enjoy all the other activities camp has to offer. Come for one week or more as all skill levels are catered to each week. Earn segments of the GSEP Equestrian Patch. Summer Sampler July 7-12 • July 14-19 • July 28 - August 2 • August 4-9 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $325 For the girl who wants to do it all, we’ve created a sampler! Enjoy sleeping out, boating, swimming, hiking, a climbing wall, archery, nature and horseback riding. Participate in everything camp has to offer. (Weather Permitting) Wet & Wild June 23-28 • July 7-12 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $430 Water + sun = fun! Hang out at the pool, explore Teardrop Island, and go on a creek hike—if that isn’t enough, leave camp to raft at Jim Thorpe and spend a day at Camel Beach. This program is for girls who love extreme water activities. Amusement Park Mania June 23-28 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $430 If you can’t get enough of roller coasters and log flumes, we have just the program to get your adrenaline pumping. Go to Hershey Park, Dorney Park and Knoebels. Chillin’ Out June 23-28 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $320 Are you looking for a more relaxed camp program? On Sunday evening, decide with your counselors how you would like to spend your week. You may choose to sleep in, enjoy chillin’ by the pool, go on “night bear” swims, or just have extra downtime in your unit. Take a trip out of camp to play mini golf and visit an old fashioned ice cream parlor. GSEP Adventure June 23 - July 5 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $695 Meet Girl Scouts from all over the council during this 2-week program. Sample some of the best activities GSEP camps have to offer. Climb the wall and horseback ride English style at Wood Haven, shoot archery and ride Western at Laughing Waters, climb high and low ropes at Tohikanee, boat and hike to Jacob’s ladder at Mosey Wood, climb the rock face and boat at Tweedale. You will return to Wood Haven to participate in regular activities in between your trips to other camps. There are no swimming or horseback riding prerequisites for this program. Bit & Bridle June 30 - July 12 Entering Grades: 9-12 Cost: $750 During this 2-week program, you will have the chance to take a trip out of camp to a horse show or the rodeo. Try your hand at another style of riding and learn more about caring for a horse. Participate in a horse show at camp. * Intermediate & advanced riders only. See riding prerequisites (page 3). Maid Marians Quest June 30 - July 5 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $360 Ready your bows, take aim, and shoot some summer fun! Spend extra time at the archery range, make your own targets, and learn about fletching as 32 camp guide • spring/summer 2013 • gsep.org • 888.564.4657
you prepare for the Great Tri-Archery challenge! In this three-part friendly competition, you’ll shoot at a floating target, show your archery skills in range challenges and participate in a special field archery event. With new friends, take a visit to an off-site archery range, you’re sure to hit a bull’s eye of fun and adventure. On the Road June 30 - July 5 Entering Grades: 8-12 Cost: $400 We’re on the road again! Spend the week going on day trips. Have breakfast at Shady Maple Smorgasbord and enjoy some outlet shopping in Lancaster, visit Dutch Springs Aqua Park, and take a trip to Knoebels amusement park. River Riders June 30 - July 12 Entering Grades: 8-12 Cost: $800 Girls will encounter some serious adventure with this exciting two-week trip program. Before leaving camp for the big trip, girls will raft the Lehigh River, take a hike on the Appalachian Trail, explore the low ropes course and climb the wall. Then when they are ready, they will travel to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia where they will whitewater raft, try their hand at the adventure course and hike. They will also have time to explore the National Park and town of Harpers Ferry. Saddle Up June 30 - July 12 Entering Grades: 6-8 Cost: $750 During this two-week program, you will have the chance to take a trip out of camp to a horse show or the rodeo. Spend time increasing your knowledge of horse care and refine your riding skills. Participate in a horse show at camp. * Elementary riders or above only. See riding prerequisites (page 3). Swamp Thing June 30 - July 5 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $320 What crawls in the mud at camp? Find out what lives and breathes in and out of the water of the Swatara Creek. Spend time at Teardrop Island, take a creek hike, go boating and visit the marshlands at Sweet Arrow Lake. And if that isn’t enough have your own dirty run at camp and enjoy some mudrucking. This program is for the girl that is not afraid of getting dirty! Art Extravaganza July 7-12 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $365 Painting, sketching and many other art mediums will fill this imaginative week of camp. Recreate a famous masterpiece, or just use one as inspiration for your own self expression. Take a trip to the Philadelphia Art Museum. Glee July 14-26 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $745 It’s show time at Camp Wood Haven! Delve into the world of singing, dancing and acting during your two-week stay. You will have the chance to visit the Dutch Apple Theatre, tour backstage and then enjoy dinner and a show. During your rehearsal breaks, you’ll have time for swimming, archery, and much more. Finish your weeks of theatricality with a performance for the rest of camp and your families. Oh the Places you’ll Go! July 14-26 Entering Grades: 9-12 Cost: $800 During your two-week stay travel to Williamsburg, Virginia where you will experience “colonial” life in America. While in Williamsburg take a side trip to Busch Gardens and Water Country USA. Just in case that’s not enough to do, spend the day at Virginia Beach walking the boardwalk and just having fun. While in camp before your trip enhance your skills on the low ropes course, the climbing wall and archery just to name a few. Take the Reins July 14-26 Entering Grades: 6-12 Cost: $740 If one week of riding isn’t enough, come to camp for two weeks to improve your riding skills. Horseback riders of all experience levels are welcome in the ring! Work on horse care, grooming, and general knowledge. Earn segments of the GSEP Equestrian Patch. 888.564.4657 • gsep.org • spring/summer 2013 • camp guide 33
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