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Alums as parents of campers

1st Session is in full swing. Yesterday, anxious parents and campers descended in the Canyon to kick of Summer 2017 at Laity Lodge Youth Camp. In that mix were several men and women who once had their own summer experiences 13 miles outside of Leakey, TX. With their camper and staffer summers long behind them, […]

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Conner Collins: Faith in Hardship

How long did you attend camp? I was a camper for 4-5 years, then on Crew, a Counselor the summer after that, then finally Assistant Guys Director. All of this was at Echo Valley. How has LLYC impacted your faith? Camp helped build the foundation for the faith that I have today. It taught me […]

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The Mahoney One Summer Wonder

Claire’s Camp Journey My journey with LLYC started out as a Delta Babe camper at Singing Hills. I attended camp all the way through Cabin I, then served on Work Crew. After that, I was an Echo Valley counselor for 3 summers, finally ending camp years (I’ve lost count) as Sugar Shack Director. Laity Lodge […]

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Registration & FOMO

We all know the feeling: you’re antsy and on the edge of your seat waiting for camp registration to open. You want your kid to get in to youth camp. You want to take your family to LLFC for a week. Now, if you were a 70’s or 80’s camper, chances are you leisurely mailed […]

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Bill Grogan’s Goat & Rodeo

Bill Grogan’s Goat is a Rodeo Round Up classic at LLYC. These three alums brought the acoustic version of this classic back into the Canyon last week and the crowd loved it. Not only did we do round one with the basic repeat, but we also stuck a huge handful of sunflower seeds in our […]

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Go to Camp, LLYC Alumni!

Listen to me, fellow alums: Resolve to make it out to the Canyon this year.  Do it. Need some quality time in solitude? Perfect, head to The Quiet House. Want a relaxing, enriching weekend where you get to be an adult camper? Ann Jack will get you all taken care of for a retreat at […]

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Frog Sullivan Tributes

“It was Frog who spoke to us at Roundups. I had accepted Christ and been baptized and all that fun stuff, but it was Frog who got to me, who helped me get it … who helped me to understand and internalize that we are flawed and God loves us anyway.” “What a great man […]

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The Frog Who Never Became a Prince

I just read The Frog Who Never Became a Prince by James “Frog” Sullivan. He was present for the birth of camp and gives the rest of us a sneak peek. Of that first summer of Laity Lodge’s youth camps, he says: …we only had 15 or 20 youngsters in each session, but I was […]

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Matt Self and other 90’s Giveaways (a la 90’s Alumni Family Camp)

A group gathered out in the Canyon in during April for the 90’s Alumni Family Camp. They told stories until late in the night and, apart from their offspring snoozing in cabins, it was just like old times. A huge scroll hung outside the dinning hall, waiting to be marked on. It said: You Might Be […]

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