It used to be that people thought of camping as simply going into the woods, learning how to cook over a fire, and sleeping under the stars. Not any more! While those still happen, there is so much more to do at camp! Climbing a 35' tower! Kayak and canoe instruction! Arts and crafts! Mountain biking! Guitar lessons! Each camper gets to experience all Fraser Lake has to offer. Sure, we still make fires, and we love to see those stars...but there is so much more to do at camp!

Each week our counsellors come up with a special event - an afternoon crusing the high seas with Jack Sparrow and his band of pirates...a pop-up circus with games, balloons, and clowns... a trip around the world to celebrate the Olympic games... Our special events are meant to be just that - special! A little different from the norm, and definately fun enough to still be considered "camp"!

Is there a better way to end your day than to be around a campfire with one hundred of your closest friends? Each evening is wrapped up with a creative assortment of entertaining skits, fun songs and serious songs. The walk back to Lone Pine through the still forest as the sun sets over the far side of the lake sets the scene for the daily wrap-up of activities.

In July 1970, my trunk and I were put onto the camp bus, and sent off for one month into the unknown camp experience. I was terrified to say the least. Once I was in my cabin, met my cabin mates and councillors, the "butterflies" were gone. From that summer on, I was a devoted camper! Each July, I was the first one on that bus heading north. Everything that camp offered was my dream summer - the lake, the friends, the songs' everything. I was hooked. Then I (sort of) grew up, moved on, started a family, and camp became just a wonderful panoramic swirl of memories. When my eldest daughter became "of camp age" I had the amazing opportunity to go to camp myself again, but this time as a volunteer at Fraser. How can you explain that cleaning dishes for 175 people is "fun"! At Fraser Lake camp, it is! Driving down the camp road, it"s like you have left the world behind. Camp is a special place where everyone is met with a smile and is welcome!! Camp rules are simple: respect yourself and others, safety is the priority, and above all you must (and will!) have fun. Always. Options at Fraser are limitless - the water sports, the land games, and of course the crazy campfires make for days that come and go all too quickly. All are enveloped in friendships that last a lifetime. My daughters and I look forward to next summer and the day when once again we'll drive down the camp road and enter a world of new possibilities.