Woodcraft Week 6 News!
Aug 06, 2025
Four more Sleeps…
Under the stars and around the lakes with our 2025 summer camp friends until Adirondack Woodcraft Camps’ 101st season comes to a close. This summer’s Woodcrafters have had the best time adventuring together, and we have an incredible schedule this week to round out everyone’s Woodcraft summer experience. Here is our camp news:
Woodcraft Trips
For a small camp, we sure do build big and beautiful Adirondack experiences. More importantly, Woodcraft builds campers with an adventurer’s and a nature lover’s heart! The logistics of running multiple overnight expeditions and various weekly day trips, with their diverse sizes, abilities, and activities, come together in a great, big, beautiful puzzle made possible by flexible programming and an awesome staff. Woodcrafters ages 7-16 got out and about on day trips and overnight trips. Our second session trips included: Auroras, Ranger Post & Trail Camp Paddle & Portage from Long Lake to Tupper Lake; Auroras in the High Peaks, summiting Cliff, Redfield, Grey, Marcy, and Skylight; Ranger Post/Trail Camp in the High Peaks, summiting Haystack, Marcy, Skylight & Grey; Wenonahs/IV Paddle & Hike Blue Mountain Lake & Castle Rock; Hadarondah/Outpost hike and camp at Cascade Lake, OLTD Paddle Exploration of the Raquette Boreal Complex. Day trips this session included outings like Hike Giant Peak, Paddle the Moose, Hike Bald, Hike Black Bear, Bike McCauley, Raft the Hudson, Rappel from Bald Mountain, and Hike & Stargaze at Rocky Mountain.
Woodcraft Activities & Patches
What’s better than waking up in your cabin with your friends and heading to camp’s dining hall to enjoy a yummy breakfast and find your daily schedule waiting for you?! We can’t think of much, especially when the activities listed range from mountain biking to ropes course, archery to swim, canoe soccer to rock climbing, karaoke to outdoor leadership skills, SUP to art, nature science to riflery, and fishing to water polo. Nothing makes us happier than seeing our campers try out new skills and grow in confidence as they learn and make progress together. Woodcrafters enjoy working toward patches in a variety of activities, and you’ll see many photos in our Photo Gallery of campers receiving a handshake and a patch from their counselor after a meal. This is a long-standing Woodcraft tradition and is always accompanied by proud applause from peers and staff! Speaking of Woodcraft traditions…
Olympics, Candlelight, and the End of Summer 2025
Currently at Woodcraft, we are hosting the 2025 Summer Woodcraft Olympics! The Woodcraft Olympic torch is glowing brightly inside the Olympic Cabin Flag Circle on A-field, and everyone understands what good sportsmanship is as they challenge each other in Green & Gold competitions. Favorite Olympic activities are: Make a Meal, KP Relay, the Watermelon Race, and the Woodcraft Triathlon. Ask your campers about it when they return home!
Once the Olympics conclude on Thursday, we will enjoy two more days of regular camp activities before we all close the summer together at Candlelight. Candlelight is Woodcraft’s most special tradition and takes place as our last and final campfire each summer. We look forward to seeing our friends around the glow of the fire as the embers spark and rise to meet the stars in the Adirondack night sky. At that time, we will be thinking of Woodcrafters everywhere, both past and present, with great camp spirit!
We are really not ready for goodbyes, but we can work with an Auf Wiedersehen! Camper Pick Up is on Sunday, August 10th, is between 10 am and 12 pm. And, next summer’s dates are out! It’s never too early to enroll.
Our best wishes to you from your favorite Summer Camp,
Love, The Bartletts and the 2025 Woodcraft Staff Team
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