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AlisonS
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Username: Alisons
Post Number: 69
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2006 - 9:57 am: | 
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Any suggestions for my 10 year old Daughter? She's already got the day camp thing sewed up, so I don't need any recommendations there. But I do want to let her try a 2 week sleep away camp program. She went to one at a Girl Scout camp (not Hoover) last summer but it was for girls who had never been on a horse before, and was Western Saddle. My Daughter has been riding for a little over a year now and rides English Saddle.
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AlisonS
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Username: Alisons
Post Number: 71
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 7:51 am: |
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ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 4444
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 - 8:09 am: |
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I would do a google search for Riding Camps/Northeast. There are lots of nice camps. Some families I know send their kids to Virginia (W. Virginia?) but I do not know the name.
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naborly
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Username: Naborly
Post Number: 386
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 4, 2006 - 3:01 pm: |
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Camp Cayuga. Honesdale, PA |
bandw
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Username: Bandw
Post Number: 99
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 2:10 pm: |
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Brown Ledge in Vermont
http://www.brownledge.org/ |
doulamomma
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Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 934
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 3:26 pm: |
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I have no suggestions, just writing to say how cool this sounds - I want to go to horseback sleep-away camp! |
AlisonS
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Username: Alisons
Post Number: 74
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 11:38 am: |
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Thanks for the suggestions!
ffof, I'd done the google search, as well as used some of the search engines that are specifically designed to find camps. The response was overwhelming in quantity, and I couldn't tell about the quality.
What about Y Camps for horseback riding? Anyone know?
Thanks again.
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Zoesky1
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Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 1365
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 12:27 pm: |
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When I was a kid, I went to a YMCA-sponsored sleepaway camp in the Adirondack Mountains that had a horseback option, which I did one summer. Basically, you stayed in the same camp as everyone else but you got to go riding all day every day as well. It was called the Ranch Camp option. The camp itself was Camp Gorham, in Eagle Bay, NY. Now, this was 1981, so I have no idea if it's even still in business let alone still doing the horse thing. But you could do a Google and see what comes up. |
Zoesky1
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Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 1366
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 12:31 pm: |
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Actually, AlisonS, I got so curious and nostalgic after posting about Camp Gorham just now that I Googled it myself. It is very much still there, and they still do the Ranch Camp option. But you have to be 12 years old or older to do it. And the hitch is, even though it's a YMCA camp, it is owned by the Y of Greater Rochester NY (where I grew up). Not sure if kids from other places or states can go there. But here's the link if you're interested:
http://www.campgorham.org/general_info_about_us.asp |
AlisonS
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Username: Alisons
Post Number: 75
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 8:48 am: |
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Zoesky 1 -
Just Checked it out. Way cool, and just like you described it. But you have to be 12.
Thanks so much! |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 3959
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 9:50 am: |
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Alison, I was looking into camp Hoover and they have a riding option too. I think it's for girls between 4th and 7th grade. |
tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4031
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 9:55 am: |
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Try Fairview Lakes YMCA Camp near Newton, NJ. I toured the place with my daughter a couple of months ago. They have a good riding program in which the kids do everything from cleaning the stables to grooming the horses to riding the horses.
The location is very attractive. It is just over Kittatinny Mountain from the Delaware River.
http://www.metroymcas.org/html/fairview_lake.cfm |
Stellas_mom
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Username: Stellas_mom
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 6:47 pm: |
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Our daughter went to Frost Valley Y camp in Claryville NY -- and participated in the ranch camp option. The ranch camp kids live with the regular campers, but spend the day with the horses. She went for several years, and looks back on this fondly. |
pauli
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Username: Pauli
Post Number: 22
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 2:42 pm: |
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I went to a horseback riding camp called Road's End Farm in New Hampshire. I think it might still be there as I went back to visit while in the area a few years ago. It's a small camp and kids get a horse to care for and ride. I LOVED it and hope to send my daughter one day if it's still up and running. |
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
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Username: Rebec2
Post Number: 9
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:59 pm: |
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I went to Teela Wooket Camp in Roxbury, Vermont for practically every summer of my life... an amazing place, at least back in the 70s and 80s. It is now under new ownership... don't know anything about the current owners, but the camp still has a riding program. Check it out... the website is www.windridgetenniscamps.com
My 9yo son started the sleepaway camp thing last summer. Suprise Lake Camp in Cold Spring, NY... great camp, but no horses. Best 4 weeks of his life... he is doing the full 8 week session this summer! I am so jealous!!!
Good luck! |
runon
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Username: Runon
Post Number: 112
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 8:32 pm: |
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I spent six summers at Camp Kiniya in VT on Lake Champlain - such a wonderful part of my childhood. Granted, I was there a long time ago but the camp is still run by the same family, as it was when my mother was a camper an even longer time ago. |
AlisonS
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Username: Alisons
Post Number: 81
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 9:09 am: |
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Thanks to all posters. This has been very helpful!!! I'm going to Fairview Lakes this week to check it out.
My daugher is still early enough in her riding "career" that she doesn't need a high end program. Although All the camps that were mentioned look absoulutely fabulous, the price differential is big between a Y camp and a private camp. Fairview runs around $6 hundred per week, while the private camps seem to run around $1000-1200 per week.
Jennifer, I suppose we could have discused this in bookgroup last week!
Thanks again for all the help! |
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
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Username: Rebec2
Post Number: 10
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 9:52 am: |
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Alison!! Of course, that makes sense!!! I hadn't figured out that I was responding to someone I actually know.
Yes, I just looked at the Windridge web site and it is indeed a little fancy! Up until 1985, Teela Wooket was an all-girls camp, and my memories of it (I went from 1976-84) are all campfires and camraderie, and all the woodsy, crafty stuff associated with sleepaway camp. The camp Nathaniel goes to (www.surpriselake.org) is just like that... it feels like time stood still there as of 1979!
Let me know where you end up sending K!!!
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