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 WHAM, BAM, POKO SLAMS
While the girls were celebrating and sobbing, the boys were slamming (food that is) for their own informal celebration of the end of camp. It has been a long standing tradition for the boys to spend one more evening together as a section and to cook out and make a huge blowout meal. Each year it seems that the meals get bigger and better.
This summer the Pioneers tried something a little different and rowed across the pond for an authentic cook out over a fire at Indian Rock. “The meal was good and there was a lot of food. We had hamburgers, hot  dogs, corn on the cob, Mountain Dew and Zebra Cakes for dessert” remarked Travis Fischer. Pioneers danced as Pioneer Section Head Will Pole played the guitar, and some choose to try and burn off their meal by scaling boulders nearby. Pioneers spent the rest of the evening sleeping out in the new Lean-to to finish out their last evening as a section.
Intermediates fired up the grills at The Homestead for their end of the summer slam. They feasted on the usual cook out cuisine, but got lucky when seniors added to their cache of chips, snacks and sodas. Many of the Homestead’s barnyard inhabitants looked on hungrily while the Intermediates enjoyed their feast. Josh Goldberger commented, “the goats tried to follow us up Bare and Rattlesnake, so I’m glad they didn’t try and join us for dinner.”
Seniors chose to have their slam a little earlier yesterday in order to be able to squeeze in one last section activity. The group headed to Vermont for a baseball game and kids were excited about the chance to get out of camp for a little while. When asked how he enjoyed the game Senior camper Matt Kantor said, “the game was fun, but the best part about going was the food at the ballpark.”
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g out of swimming, the Big MacCready comes and goes, and girls and boys host their awards banquet. Even though both camps hold similar banquets they are still very different. The banquet is a time to recognize and celebrate the achievements of the campers for the summer. 
anded out several “Golden Horseshoe Awards” for talented riders and Teonna O’Leary was “disappointed that I didn’t get a Golden Horseshoe.” Imagine O’Leary’s surprise when her name was called to receive the “Unicorn Award.” “It is the highest honor you can get as a rider and it made me really happy to be presented with it.”
jokes from the summer scribed onto it. Kelsey Von der Linn was the recipient of that award last night and was “not expecting it at all. This is my first year as a camper and I was only here for three weeks; it really is an honor that I got chosen.”
