Camp Caribou Fall Update

Hey Caribou Nation, we hope this blog post finds you well and enjoying your fall season. We just had an amazing Boston Reunion at the Boston Sports Club in Wellesley.  Campers and counselors from all over the east coast came in to reunite, reconnect, and get excited for the upcoming summer. We played loads of basketball, had an epic match of dodgeball, competed in a couple rounds of laser tag, enjoyed some great pizza, watched the 2014 picture slideshow, and handed out the 2015 "Livin' the Dream" reunion t-shirts.  We want to give a massive shout out to all who came to the reunion,  it was great seeing everyone and we can't wait for 2015 at the 'Bou!  

The following were at the Boston Reunion: Ben B., Max L., Ben L., Danny E., Sam E., Issac L.,  Rohan P., Matthew S., Carson E., Jason H., Timmy D., Aaron W., Mitchell W., David C., Josh F., Ryan RS, Jake C., Jack T., Wyatt G., Andrew S., Ben Z., Will R., Peter R., Eric S., Brett S., Ryan C., Jordan C., Carter M., Brandon M., Corey L., Charlie L., Jackson L., Nate S., Simon L., Sheetz, Michael P., Ryan I., Corey F., TK F., Jake F., Jordan G., Nick S., Ben S., Andrew D., Henry F., Ben L., Teddy L., Joey T, Jeffrey S., Noah K., Owen M., Harry F., Lucas L., Logan L., Micah GL, Sam C., Ian K., Zach K., Lucas G., Alex C., and Spencer B..  

And a special shout out to our guys that came in from out of state:  Max K., Cyrus T., Ben S., Jordan S., Jack B., Mick B., Kevin M., Zach C., Greg H., Danny H., Chase G., Caleb K., John White, Savannah VM, Megan P., & Dylan L.!  

 

Here in the Caribou Winter office, we have been very busy gearing up for the 2015 summer. Bobby has been meeting with loads of new families in New York, Connecticut, Baltimore, DC, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.  Rotman has been putting the 2015 staff together and has seen a ton of guys wanting to return from last summer, BOUYAH!  Bill and Martha are doing great and have made a couple trips up to camp.  Up at camp the leaves have fallen, but the peninsula is looking great and our full time maintenance directors, Mike Day and Eddie Thompson,  are constantly making improvements on the facilities.  Lori sends her love and tons of hugs to the entire Caribou Family! Ellie is now 11 months old, crawling all over the place and has recently started day care where she gets to sing and dance during music class.  Ellie is definitely going have to share her talents at campfire this summer!

2015 Staff Returners: Danny Holdsman from Philly is making the big return and will be working at basketball this summer.  David Clardy from Lexington, MA is itching to get back to the waterfront and will be teaching swimming yet again.  Grant Purves, Caribou's Top Chef, from Darlington, UK is very excited to get back and add some new dishes to our Culinary Arts program.  JOEY T, JOEY T, JOEY T all the way from Mahwah, NJ coming back for his 17th summer and returning to his old stomping grounds as the basketball director.  On another note, you should definitely check out what Joey T. is doing out in Springfield, MA for his school and students.  Joey has been nationally recognized for his 100 mile walking club... check out the following link: Brookings 100 Mile Club.  John White from Palmyra, Maine is coming back for his 8th summer at the 'Bou.  John is bringing 30 years of High School Woodshop experience and he can't wait to start some new and exciting projects. Sammy "The Baker" John is making the epic return to the Caribou Kitchen.  Sammy our Executive Baker comes in with 25 years of experience working at the finest resorts in Florida and we can't wait for his famous homemade Boston Cream Pies, White Chocolate Cranberry Biscotti, and Carrot Cake!! Marianne Niles our Head Nurse and Shawn Niles one of our Chefs will both be returning to the 'Bou! Peter Rabinovitz from Needham, MA is excited to join the baseball staff and eager to add his own flare to the baseball program.  And Megan Perry from Gardiner, Maine, one of Ellie's Nannies, is pumped to be back on the peninsula.

Please keep in touch as we love to hear updates on how all of our Caribou Campers and Counselors are doing.  Happy Holidays!

2014 Camp Caribou Memories

It was an amazing summer filled with great memories!  Below is a list of memories that made 2014 unforgettable... Check it out!

Martha’s laugh – most recognizable noise on camp

Rotman acting like a large mouth bass during staff skits.

Pattee’s Pond canoe trips down the outlet stream

Bunk 4 Lip Sync – EPIC!

Willcox’s encounter with a mouse – not so tough after all

It’s a tie – Mexico and USA battle it out in the Olympics

11U dance party to the soundtrack of Pitch Perfect with Matoaka

Illinois wins America’s Cup in dominating fashion

15U Archery – CMCL Champs yet again

Hurley’s dancing skills and back flips

Bobby and Tyler reunite at the Native American Experience

The CA’s bring sports talk to a whole new level at the Sportscenter club

Weymo lights up the sky during the 4^th of July

Nick Pine winning the Caribou FIFA golden boot

Ian Norfolk bringing the Narwhals to campfire

Alex Walker unleashing his karate skills – WHOA….WHOA….WHOA!!

Ethan Hirsh – MOANIN’

Willcox and Al winning the best huggers award 

Jigz goes blonde, enough said.

Marshall Knight, Gabe Pinkus, and Matt Schick bringing down the house with their guitar skills

12U Hockey scoring 2 goals in the last 48 seconds to win the CMCL!

Lewis Arnsten steals the show at the Sr. Lip Sync

Beats – “CARIBOU FUN CHECK”

Mani’s, pedi’s, and face masks – Caribou’s first spa day

The Magic of V can do it all… magic, music, and comedy

Grant ushers in our new Culinary Arts program with a bang

Zach Russell and Zach Ashany are Top Chefs

Tom Merrett’s Family Guy impersonations, spot on!

Dylan Johnson is the new king of Bill impersonations

Caribou‘s got GRIT!

Chillin’ in the bunny pen

Senior line shaving cream battle

“odds are…”

Henry Wolfson’s record breaking sunscreen usage

Congratulations to all the Caribou Perimeter swimmers

Jeffrey Simon addicted to water exercise

Ellie chants during the all camp photo

Jordan Lapp scoring the winning goal to win 10U soccer

Mexican dinners cooked by Rafa and Jorge

The entire swim staff using sun’in

Chobani yogurt craze!!

Beach Day ice cream – BOUYAH

Rotman’s impersonation of Ellie!

Shane and Seamus – The Bash Brothers

SOSA!!

OOB security shirts

40/40 Home Free

Ally-Oop during meal times

The grey animal farm trip

Flour war in culinary war

2014 CMCL Champs! 4 out 5 years, it’s a Dynasty!

Casey Salzman’s riddles stumping us yet again

Ruxton, Andrew Little, and Ian Reilly take top honors at the Belgrade 5k Race

Grey wins Color War by a ten point margin

Clardy and Rosenfeld put on a show at Comedy Night

Mark Warrington is Jeffrey and Jeffrey is Mark Warrington

The Ice Bucket Challenge sweeps the peninsula

Jordan Flynn’s commanding performance in the win over the Manitou Soccer Staff

The Tighes’ and The Bronksys’, are they cousins?

Alex Ranck (SHABBA!)…a true magician

CIT’s reaching out and helping the community

Volleyballs Super Spoon Award

Tyler and Jigz continue the T.O.B award

Sammy John turns the Caribou Kitchen into a French bakery

“Hey Bill, give us a wave, said hey Bill give us a wave!”

The boating staff taking home the staff skit win

Charlie Van Vleck…best hair on camp

Zach Ashany giving out free hugs

Ike Chukwulozie’s legendary dance face… YES!!!!

The Maine Lumber Jack Show and Monkey C Monkey Do, great additions to Caribou Trips

Joey T. – “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

Miles Canning and the Ultimate Fitness program

Color War break and the dragster rocking the junior line

Super Seniors make it happen on Mt. Katahdin and summit within record time

Dirty Dickie and CooCoo Callan

Blue vs Grey staff basketball game…INSANE!

Jake Zaas and the pie eating skit

Hutzler’s awesome hair

Shane’s Haka

The Rubik’s Crew in Bunk 11

Travis and Bill sing “The Gambler”

Julian Aledo, Grey Moszkowski and Noah Tobin bring their talents to the Caribou Coffee House

Annie in the Water close out an amazing first session

The great work and tremendous output by the kitchen staff all summer

2014’s amazing weather!

We look forward to Livin’ the Dream in 2015!

July 11th - Camper Photographs

In today's Photography Elective the camper, Malec Nahas from Bunk 6 was challenged to take a picture of a arrow being shot through the air down at the camp's Archery Range! Malec was able to capture this image and successfully beat the challenge capturing multiple arrows as they soared through the air! Congratulation Malec!

Malec Nahas - Bunk 6

July 7th - Camper Photographs

Today we had a new photographer in the photography elective! Zac Ashany from Bunk 13 joined Corey Ladge in today's Culinary Arts Photography Elective where the campers photographed the cooking class!

Zac Ashany - Bunk 13!

Corey Ladge - Bunk 8!

July 3rd - Camper Photographs

Hey Caribou Nation, today we've got some awesome pictures again from Corey Ladge in Bunk 8 and Adam Glanz in Bunk 6!

Adam Glanz - Bunk 6

Corey Ladge - Bunk 8

July 1st - Camper Photographs

Hey Caribou Nation! First Photography Elective period went off smoothly with some impressive photographs from one of our newest and youngest campers, Corey Ladge in Bunk 8!

Corey Ladge - Bunk 8

Corey Ladge - Bunk 8

Camp Caribou Voted Number 1 Summer Camp

Hey Caribou Nation, we hope this blog post finds everyone doing well and enjoying their Spring season.  We can't believe that we are 46 days away from the 2014 summer starting up.  Things are already in motion up at the 'Bou.  Beats, Rafa, Damian, and Willcox are already at camp and getting the place ready.  From raking, to mowing, to cleaning, their hands are full, but the peninsula is already looking amazing!

The Caribou Winter office is officially moving up to Maine tomorrow, so all correspondence should be directed to our summer address:

Camp Caribou 

1 Caribou Way

Winslow, ME 04901

1.207.872.9313

Parents, this is your place for all Caribou news during our summer months.  We will be blogging throughout the summer about Caribou events, programs, tournaments, etc.  We will also be posting photographs taken by our campers through our digital photography program.

In case you missed it, Camp Caribou was voted Number 1 most amazing summer camp in the US!  You can check out the article through the link below.  We are very excited to see everyone up in Maine.

Top 50 Most Amazing Summer Camps

Also if you are looking for the Camp Trucking forms the link is below.

Camp Trucking Hard Copy Forms

Camp Trucking Website

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Camp Caribou Promotional Video

If you have not seen out latest video... Check out the link below!  BouYah

Caribou Hits East Coast and West Coast

Caribou Nation, we hope everyone is doing well and gearing up for Spring Time! The Caribou team recently split forces and invaded LA and NYC. Bill and Bobby were in LA and Martha, Lori, Ellie, and Rotman were in NYC.

Bobby and Bill went out to do an open house in Studio City, CA at Mrs. and Mr. Charles Fradin's home... Capital A.K.A "Frado" 19 year camper, counselor, and program director.  Also, home of Noah and Daniel Fradin, multiple year Caribou campers.  The open house was amazing! the Fradins have a pool (they didn't swim, it was a bit to cold) they got paddle tennis courts on a full length basketball court, wicked cool.  They got two in ground tramps with a basketball hoop next to them.  Erik Norfolk, soon to be new camper, was tramp slamming on the 10 foot rim, his brother Ian Norfolk, who will also be coming to Caribou this summer, was there, the two love skateboarding, stand up paddle boarding, water skiing, wake boarding, and can't wait for June 27th. BouYah.  Cooper Pate, new guy from Studio City, lives 4 doors from the Fradins, will be joining the 11 year old age group this summer, he loves all sports, but especially basketball.  He was shooting the lights out of Frado's court.  He knows Avi Kapadia and is looking forward to balling out with the 11u Bball squad.

Bobby and Bill spent several days in LA recruiting new campers and then proceeded to Coronado, CA.  Coronado is the island opposite of San Diego.  They went there and met with Andres, Santiago, Patricio, Diego, Danny and sister Maria Girault.  They live in a condo on the beach, directly next to the US Navy Seals Training Center.  WHO-AHH.  Bill and Bobby played beach football and hung out with all the Giraults and they're friends on the beach.  They were also fortunate in meeting lots of the boys friends who are interested in coming to Caribou this summer. They met Ryan and Garrett Sauter, Charlie Tomlin (C-Tom), and JJ Pintado. They were able to show everyone who attended the new Caribou Video in the hotel Del Colonado.  The hotel is unbelievably amazing.  It was built in 1888 and is the largest wooden structure remaining in the Unites States.  The place was Disneyland, multiple pools, spas, beach front, etc.  The Giraults and their buddies spend their time surfing, skimboarding, bike riding, scootering, skateboarding, playing beach football, and chilling in SoCal.  We want to thank the Giraults and Fradins for their tremendous hospitality.  We would love to come to your area and have an open with you and your friends, anytime you wish.

As Bill and Bobby were all over SoCal... Martha, Lori, Rotman, and Ellie were on the east coast for the NY Caribou Reunion at the House of Sports.  The reunion was AWESOME!!  They kicked off the event with a little entourage to get everyone movin' and screamin'.  From their the crew of 56 campers split up and played gaga, dodgeball, and flag football.  Sam Cox threw it down in the gaga pit, Dylan Lublin was holding his own on the dodgeball field, and Gabe Pinkus, Max Kaufman and Andy Godnick ran the show on the field turf.  We have to point out Martha's GaGa skills, UNREAL, who knew!! After about 45 minutes of playing around, we organized a 30 v 30 dodgeball match.  Cole Cutlip and Jeremy Wolf had the great idea of using mega earth balls as protection.  The game was massive and everyone had a great time.

At the end we all gathered for pizza and snacks.  It was great to catch up with everyone and one of the highlights that we heard was that Max Fisher recently won the New Jersey State Robotics Championship and is now off to CA for the World Championship in April, Good Luck Max!

The NY Reunion was so much fun and we want to thank everyone for coming out.  Keep in touch... 121 Days until Camp BEGINS!

Caribou Alums Doing Big Things!

Hey Caribou Nation, we hope all is well.  We wanted to give a big shout out to two Caribou Alums that have been doing some massive things and giving back to their communities.  Please check out the links below to read all about Alec Burkin, Super Senior in 2007, and Dan Geller, Super Senior in 2011!  Great job guys, the Caribou family is very proud!  #cariboucares

Alec Burkin: Gift of Life: Bone marrow donor, recipient meet for the first time

Dan Geller: Senior Organizes Second-Annual Day of Fun for Special-Needs Children

Caribou hits the streets of NYC

The Caribou blog is back and better than ever.  We hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the New Year!  Last weekend, Bill, Martha and Bobby went down to NYC to visit with new families, present families, and some awesome Caribou alumni.  The city was jumping as the Super Bowl was in town!  Bill and Martha started the weekend off by seeing Carter Gordon play in a youth hockey game in Central Park... Riley and his parents joined us as well.  First off, Riley still has the great hockey hair flow going! And second, Central Park is the perfect spot for a hockey game..  Carter scored 2 goals and his team came up victorious!  BOUYAH. Carter says "hello" to Caribou Nation.  He also has been in touch with Tigs a lot and is so happy that he is returning to the hockey program at Caribou!  

Then the next stop was the Fallon family for brunch.  Oliver and Conrad were there with their sister Daisy, their parents, and their Grandmother. Conrad, actually made the breakfast himself! He is an amazing chef. He made homemade crepes and popovers! Conrad is definitely going to have to teach a class or two this summer in our new culinary arts facility. He even sent Bill and Martha home with extra popovers. It was all so good!

Then Bill and Martha were off to Central Park to meet up with Avi K. and his family. It was so great to see him and catch up with him. He is playing a lot of basketball and having a great school year. Bill and Martha also had a chance to visit with Linus Grieco and talk with his younger brother Henry who will be joining us at camp for the first time this summer. We are all pumped for the upcoming summer!

Sunday evening Bill, Martha, and Bobby watched the Super Bowl at a close friends apartment who also happen to be the parents of two Caribou alumni, David and Ben Alterescue.  David is now traveling all over the world as the Global Marketing Director for Spotify. His brother Ben, another great Caribou alum, is a documentary film producer. He has a new film out now available on iTunes called "Book of Lone Peak". You should all check it out. It's a short film about a great High School basketball team in Utah. 

We look forward to seeing many more of you at our New York reunion at House of Sports on February 23rd.  Keep in touch… 140 days until camp begins!

"Unforgettable Summers"

Check it out!  Camp Caribou - "Unforgettable Summers"

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