Website Updates

We just updated the camp website with a few new items. Parents will be happy to know that we are adding the Health Form to our Forms page so it can be downloaded at any time. Also, we have changed the tour page so you can take a tour around camp. Click the photo to check it out...

"Hi Mom, Camp is Great!"

Last year, Deb Mallin wrote a wonderful article about being a mother of first year campers. If this is your first summer as a camp mom or if you aren't sure whether your son is ready for camp, please take just a moment to read "Off They Go--A Mother's Guide."

New Vessel for the Fleet

Sailors, get ready to high-side this summer. Just purchased : a stunning 1998 Melges X-boat for the Chippewa sailing fleet. This is a beautiful boat that was used mainly for racing. It will certainly be ready for the regatta this summer at camp if any of you skippers are up to the task.

Before it can set sail on Cass Lake, however, we'll need a name. Any ideas?

An Ode to Camp Chippewa

I’m so very excited,
Your time is quite near,
You’ve brought so much fun,
I’d like to give a cheer.

New sports, new activities,
New counselor, new cabin,
Old friends, old chums,
And lots of blabin’

From Chicago and New York,
You’ve brought us together,
St. Louis and Manchester,
Whatever the weather

Oh awesome Camp Chippewa,
We love you each summer,
We’d stay all our lives,
It couldn’t be funner!

By Spencer Dillon
Spencer is from Wilmette, Illinois and wrote this poem during his sixth grade year after his first summer at Chippewa.

Canadian Trips 2007

As you know, the Seal River trip will be headed out for the first time since 1995. What other trips are headed out? Once again, the Quetico awaits our voyageurs headed into the ninth grade. As wonderful and remote as many of our other trips are, few trips offer the rugged beauty and challenge as can be found in the Quetico.

For our older guys, the Sanford-Elsie trip will be one destination. Great fishing, fun whitewater and the legendary Indian Head cliff and Horse Falls. A return trip to the Gammon River also is in the works for first session. Portaging over the watershed in the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park will be rewarded with classic rapids and chutes. Keep your eye out for pictographs as well as you paddle Aiken Lake. Finally, the second session will launch a new trip for Chippewa. We have been studying the Kopka River for the last several years and look forward to camp's first descent to Lake Nipigon. Among the highlights...three 3o-foot waterfalls.

Chippewa voyageurs will again find real adventure on the trails of the north country, paddling and portaging the ancient canoe routes. It will be another amazing year for trips.

Parent Handbooks On the Way

Travels plans, packing, and all of the mysteries of preparing for the coming summer are addressed in the revised Parent Handbook. Look for yours in the mailbox by the end of the week. Can't wait? Download a copy from the Forms page on the camp website. Word from our travel agent, Travel One, asks that you book early this year to ensure the cheapest airfare possible. Contact Amy at Travel One by calling 800-245-1111.

Mary's Mac & Cheese

By popular demand and special request, here is Mary's recipe for Mac & Cheese:

Macaroni
Powder cheddar cheese sauce mix
Cheddar cheese, shredded
Butter or Margarine
Milk
Lawry's Seasoning Salt
Salt
Pepper

Cook desired amount of macaroni in boiling water until soft. Drain, then add butter and cheddar cheese sauce mix (powder). Add Lawry's seasoning and salt, pepper to taste. Add milk "to right consistency." Fill casserole dish to half with macaroni, cover with shredded cheddar cheese, then finish filling dish with macaroni. Cover with cheddar cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.

Seal River Maps

For those headed north to the Seal this summer, here are the maps that will be used during your adventure. They are 1:250,000 scale. Remember, you can order them from World of Maps (800-214-8524) if you would like your own set.

64J – Tadoule Lake
64I – Shethanei Lake
54L – Churchill
54M – Caribou River

Want more information, check out the blog entry titled 'Ordering Canadian Trip Maps' from December.