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On the way back from a trip to the Emigrant Wilderness, I visited Camp on Tuesday to see some surprising and wonderful improvements to Camp for this year. Read on to learn about the new shower building, new merit badge sign-up process, returning staff heroes, the return of the sailing program, our site updates, and even the beginning of the end for latrines!

Shower Building

The new shower building is completed and operational! This $250,000 project updated the old camper shower building (between Miwok and Chippewa campsites) with a new facility featuring individual shower stalls - no more waiting for the correct hours or finding the correct side of the building for your age/sex! Pictures should be coming soon.

Merit Badge Sign-up Process

The merit badge sign-up process has also changed dramatically - most Scouts are now signed up for merit badges online using a system based on Camp Chawanakee's popular online sign-up system. This has eliminated the need for a Sunday evening Program Midway (the end of a VERY long run for that program event) and helped make Sunday afternoon check-in much more relaxed: Troops now visit only the "essential" check-in spots during the afternoon tour (Health Lodge, Dining Hall, Waterfront, Rifle Range, etc.) and then get settled in. After dinner, program tours are conducted to show troops the main program areas in the Camp valley.

Returning Staff

Many returning staff continue to make Camp an enthusiastic and zany place -

Welcome one and all! After months and months of planning, coding, designing, and redoing, we're finally up and running. We originally intended this site to be a way for us, staff alumni of Camp Hi-Sierra, to provide information to the world about who we are and what we do. As we developed this site, we came to the realization that it would be far more useful as a community to which anyone can contribute.

So, we've got open sign ups. That's right, anyone can sign up for an account and add content to the site. Our amazing developer has taken the same cool technology found over at wikipedia.org and put it into our site here. This means that once you have an account you can add to just about any page and put your two bits in!