Alright Folks
 

i am leaving tomorrow morning to go lifeguard at a Young Life camp in Colorado.. so i won't be around to amuse you all for a month. That being said, I WILL have tons and tons of great picture to show you all of the summer time rockies, kids flying off the blob, etc. so eagerly await all that.

Take care

Bye bye. :)

See yah!

The summer exodus begins. Mine is fast approaching as well.

There is nothing better than camp counselor sex. Here's hoping your female counselor counterparts are hot to trot.

Have fun!!

You work for the cult?

If that's what you feel like calling it then yes.

Just got home today, took 200+ pics but i'll only post the good few so as to not to kill toad's bandwidth.

Bring it on. :biggrin:
Especially the camp counselor sex pics.

hmm.. guess once you reach a certain # of pics the camera decides it doesn't want to share with the computer...

and sry bruce, none of that. i'm sure you're heartbroken

ok not ALL of them..... :o

Cult? I found the article about the camp being created on the site of the former BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH's property.

Interesting.

oook, back to what this thread is really about. i finally got *some* of my pics off the camera before the battery died. so here's a select few:

two of the other lifeguards Megan and Brit
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...olOlympics.jpg

the ridge runners
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...t/DSC04485.jpg

blob and lake
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...eLakefront.jpg

camp circle
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...nterCircle.jpg

i've seen way higher
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...nontheBlob.jpg

my buddy Matt out for a little hike
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../MattonTop.jpg

summertime hail
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...perWelcome.jpg

most of camp
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...CreekRanch.jpg

view from top of the mountain (camp at bottom)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ptheBottom.jpg

some flower
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...eysFlowers.jpg


i use photobucket for image hosting, if anyone knows of some other free service that gives more space per image lemme know (most of mine are over one meg, and PB's limit is 250 kb per image)

Nice pics! Gorgeous setting for a camp. The blob looks fun.

I use flickr for hosting. No per-image size limit, but a maximum number of megs uploaded per month.

Outstanding

very, very nice. breathtakingly beautiful views!

The girl is flying off the blob because the other kid on the left jumped down on it like a catapult, right? Or did she build up momentum on her own and he's just waiting his turn?

Wow. Doesn't look lke any of the camps I went to as a kid here in good 'ole Iowa. :green with envy: Nice pictures.

yeah people just jump down from the top of the tower and launch the person sitting at the other end of the blob into the air. I've seen/have pics of people flying higher than the tower.. which is a good 25 feet up.

I'm getting a memory card reader today or tomorrow, so I *should* have more and better pics for ya'll then.

And thanks for the compliments :thankyou: .

it's pretty um.. amazing to put it bluntly. Something like $32 Mil of private donations went in to building the camp and buying the property. Young Life sure knows how to give kids just about the best week of their life.

And actually Rich that's a different YL camp. This was Crooked Creek Ranch outside Fraser.

Great pics and the camp is really nice too...

I worked at a camp one summer and everyone kept getting hurt on the Blob - severe spinal cord injuries and such - so i"m surprised that any camps still have them.

Melida

wow Bullitt! Can I go with you next summer? Remind me why I haven't moved to CO yet?
(I still have great YL memories from my teen years, even though I've never really been "religious". Just fun to have an excuse to get out of the house on Wednesday nights.)

yeah we had more than our share of scares.. but they have put some restrictions and whatnot on the blob since back in the day. 100lbs max weight difference, no double blobbing (two people blobbing one person), and 2 resident EMT's that live on camp along with all 6 of us lifeguards.

:EDIT: I'm also going to NYC this weekend for the Dave Matthews/BNL concert with my bro and my padre. So I'll try my best to get some good city/show pics while I'm there.

<-- wasn't a rich kid

*hijack* What is Young Life? I remember a few of the rich kids being involved when I was growing up, but never really knew what it was.

Young Life Pretty much a giant international non-denominational Christian youth organization.

BTW, I like your sig Labrat

it's kind of a church youth group thing. i never belonged, but knew several who did.

Junior Moonies.

riiiiight... :rolleyes:

Junior Mints!

Oh-wait-this isn't the word association thread...my bad.

ok i got a few of my favorites on flickr. here they are:

http://photos23.flickr.com/29122298_38df53f056_b.jpg

http://photos22.flickr.com/29122299_34e1c59941_b.jpg

http://photos23.flickr.com/29122297_914a8e29cc_b.jpg

http://photos22.flickr.com/29122296_e5d9e9395a_b.jpg

http://photos23.flickr.com/29122295_ee58fb08b3_b.jpg

http://photos21.flickr.com/29122294_70c367b171_b.jpg

Very nice.

All of the kids that i knew in High School that were involved in Young Life were MEGA rich... they all had these huge houses where they would have YL meetings in their basements.

You evil bastard...now I'm pining even more for the mountains.

Looks like just about the most fun you might be able to have during summer vacation...assuming, of course, that there was plenty of sex, booze, drugs and loud music, too.

Just kidding. Even us sober folks could have a good time there. Nice pics!

Wow, that looks amazing! Nice work!

That's because rich usually equals conservative which usually equals religious. They weren't in Young Life just because they were rich, trust me. A lot of my friends were in Young Life and they were far from rich.

What he said. Though Young Life does have some extremely generous donors, which we are very thankful for. Otherwise the kind and scale of ministry we do would never be possible.

Ok I know I promised some more pics so here they are, finally got around ot hosting em:

Gettin ready to throw water balloons at unsuspecting campers
http://photos22.flickr.com/31541834_4b2bb60a47_b.jpg

Top of the mountain luge
http://photos21.flickr.com/31541833_fad41caa0f_b.jpg

Wierd flower
http://photos22.flickr.com/31541832_953feca2ad_b.jpg

4 white boys driving through Harlem
http://photos22.flickr.com/31540665_009a3a07db_b.jpg

Driving home
http://photos22.flickr.com/31540669_35b9ed96fa_b.jpg

Jowling!!
http://photos23.flickr.com/31540302_d89ab05a86_b.jpg

More Jowling!!
http://photos22.flickr.com/31539623_ba1250fe5f_b.jpg

Ouch
http://photos22.flickr.com/31540301_3d45146a12_b.jpg

Charles and an injured bird
http://photos22.flickr.com/31540299_fdc7fa0699_b.jpg

Pool Jousting!
http://photos22.flickr.com/31539622_e67922c377_b.jpg

The Holy Shrine
http://photos23.flickr.com/31539621_599f4b8794_b.jpg

Another flower
http://photos21.flickr.com/31539620_2f413099ff_b.jpg

My gato
http://photos21.flickr.com/31539618_ab4a2055be_o.jpg