A BYM Camping Program work grant is a great way to offset some of the costs of camp and be part of an amazing Quaker community where everyone is pitching…
Dear Family and Caretakers of Teen Adventure, We write to you from another warm summer day at Common Ground Base Camp. The birds are chirping, the stoves are alight, and…
Hello from Teen Adventure! It is the ninth day for TA trips as we near the halfway point of each trip’s 19-day journey. It is hard to believe that so…
The adventure is underway! Four TAP trips (Teen Adventure Program first years) and three TALT trips (Teen Adventure Leadership Training second years) are just over a third of the way…
David Hunter, Camp Property Manager This year at the camps… We just finished one of our best summers ever and wherever we went we found happy campers. Campers enjoyed all…
Jane Megginson, Camp Program Manager 2016 was a fantastic year for the Camping Program! We had the highest enrollment in the history of our camps with over 600 campers attending…
Howdy from Teen Adventure! Just over two weeks ago, TA Staff at Common Ground started the process of planning, packing, practicing and playing to get ourselves ready for camper’s arrival….
The BYM Camps—Shiloh, Opequon, Catoctin and Teen Adventure (TA)—had a great 2015 season. For the third year in a row we are at a high of camper weeks enrolled
“Quaker Faith is placed not in the achievements of the past… but in the promise of what is to come” Joshua Valle, Friends Journal, April 2014 David Hunter, Camp Property…
by Sarah Williamson The BYM camping program is a huge touchstone for my family. For my brother and me, because we were campers and counselors and both met our spouses…