A Historic Hike Around Hemlock Overlook One of the things I love most about working at Adventure Links previously at Hemlock Overlooking Regional Park is that I count all 400 acres as my backyard. When I’m not working in the office or facilitating programs, I often take to the trails to explore this gorgeous property….
Category: Hemlock Overlook
March 25, 2016
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A few days ago, while interviewing two of our “perpetual” residential campers for a camp video, I heard something that caught me by surprise. When asked what their favorite part about residential camp was, both girls answered simultaneously, “Talking to the other girls at the end of the night.” In a camp where a typical…
March 3, 2016
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I have the kind of mother who loves to cut little articles out of the newspaper about things to do, places to see and her favorite, places to eat in Washington DC and then give them to me. The most valued one of these little bits of paper she has clipped for me was the…
June 3, 2015
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We get busy sometimes, busy planning summer camps, busy planning team building programs, busy training our staff, busy getting our fleet ready for camp… The point is sometimes the things we care about get pushed to the back burner. While our daily goal is to get people outside and to interact with the environment our direct…
May 11, 2015
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In order to get to our Zipline participants have to traverse one of two cables between what we creatively refer to as platforms one and two. Here is what it looks like when 100 adult participants head to platform two from platform one. Music – “Dead Code” by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/song/DeadCode
This is my second spring at Adventure links. After a long winter here at the park, some of our new seasonal staff have arrived. It took me a little while to realize that one of the great aspects of my job was going to be meeting new people each season. Working with someone on…
February 3, 2015
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One of the things we struggle with here at Hemlock Overlook is dampness and humidity. Especially when it comes to our gear. Anyone who has ever spent time in Virginia during the summer can relate. One of our winter projects has been to create a storage and supply area for our paddling gear. This Personal Flotation Device (PFD)…
We are getting both sad and excited around here. Friday November 21st is just two weeks away and it marks the last day of our 2014 program season. We break the week before Thanksgiving so that our staff have the opportunity to spend the holiday at home. Our staff travel far and wide to, places as far…
March 4, 2014
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Here at Hemlock Overlook winters can be beautiful, they can also be long. While we have programming options that work most of the year, many of our programming options require warmer weather. Activities such as Rock Climbing, Caving, Kayaking, Sailing, Watershed Studies, and Ecology Lessons require warm weather, trees with leaves and unfrozen rivers. So…