Eagle Lake Camp-a wonderful place!

We especially enjoyed working with Steve and Diane Hahn, the SOA's

As a Sower on Assignment they serve for 4 months and they came in the May but were delayed getting up the mountain because of 17 inches of snow.

Our transportation was this little "buggy" so we could easily get around camp and the steep hills.

This campus is 300 acres and so large that we are just learning our way around.

This is the Horse Barn.

They used to have horses, but no more.  Now it is a storage unit.

Steve rebuilt the stairs ( to nowhere) 

The door is closed off now, but will be opened again if needed.

Steve did a great job!

These beautiful surroundings sometimes have dangers. 

Lou is pointing to where lightning struck the trees and the cabin.

Luckily no one was using the cabin at the time.

It caused broken glass

and damaged the concrete supports.

Other areas inside the cabin were burned.

 

This lightning rod will be installed at the highest point of the staff housing.

A little time for fun!

"All work and no play"

(it is work to paddle into the wind!)

We came in August and enjoyed our first bit of fun on the lake.

(yep, the water is cold!)

A beautiful camp - with work and play

The kids enjoy lots of activities

 and the SOWERS help maintenance "do their thing"

Kayaking  and waterboarding enjoyed by the kids

The path to the zip line is quite a hike!

The Dining Hall

Can you imagine feeding 250 kids  at once?

Just think of the preparation. How would you like to be on the kitchen staff?

As volunteers we ate in another building with older teenage staff.

Very energetic and loud!

Can you imagine 50 teenagers playing games, shouting, and eating?

We had a good couple of weeks working on a variety of projects.

In a camp like this you never run out of work.

Ladies  Work

I'm glad our jobs were easier than others like kitchen work!

They had so many left over T-shirts  that we 'converted' them to pillows.

 Next year the SOWERS get to stuff the pillows with the filling.

Apparently the pillows sell very well.

We actually finished 120 'pillows'

The rest of our work time was cleaning some of the staff apartments

 as they had left camp for the winter.

The guys had a big variety of jobs.

This shed was built "backwards"  ( the slanted roof dumped the snow over the doorway and there was no access in the winter) so they were asked to change the window and door openings so that there would be access to the shed in the winter. 

Nice job, guys!

One of the maintenance sheds has needed a "re-do" for a long time!

It had been designed for vehicle maintenance but had degenerated into storage and a chicken coup, with everything covered with feathers and dust.

The new maintenance director is doing a fantastic job.

Steve and Lou were doing the entire space with cleaning and painting.

Lots of staff members and other special campers cleared out enormous amounts of 'stuff' so that the job could be done.  

Now that the walls have a new coat of paint it's time for cleaning and 

acid washing prep for painting the floor. 

After power washing, Lou stained the deck (or at least half of it) 

on the top of the boat house.

(More stain was purchased to finish the job.)

Next year the maintenance director said he wanted to start power washing

and staining the 62 cabins!

This gives a good picture of what SOWERS do!