2008 Camp Details & Activities

July 6-11, 2009, we will once again host great kids from our community who come from single parent homes. The youth, ages 13-16 years, are selected through referrals from school resource officers, officers in the community and the schools themselves. Only those kids with limited or no criminal backgrounds are chosen, and they must abide by camp rules. Five days of camping, hiking, biking, horseback riding and whitewater adventures await you!  GET YOUR APPLICATION IN EARLY!

Travel

The Rendezvous experience begins when participants gather behind the Police Services building to load their gear and board the buses. The 50 mile trip up the Poudre Canyon gives everyone a chance to get acquainted. Click here to see what you should bring.

Accommodations

Accommodations are courtesy of the Colorado National Guard Drug Demand Reduction Team. As the campers arrive at the campsite, individuals become teams because it takes a cooperative effort to turn a pile of tarps and poles into the tents and cots they will call home. Adults act as advisors and assistants, and the differences between cops and teenagers soon disappear as camp takes shape.

Activities

The real fun starts the next day. Daytime activities include horseback riding, mountain biking, white water rafting and hiking. Nighttime entertainment centers around the roaring campfire. Mountain men, who originated the Rendezvous, drop by to take the campers on a richly illustrated trip into the history of the region. Police K-9 handlers do a demonstration and the ever popular dance is on Thursday night. A rousing game of capture the flag and orientation with the National Guard members rounds out the week.

View short video:
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View Slideshow of past Rendezvous:
[2.8MB QuickTime] [7.5MB WMV]

For more information, email us at:

Bruce and Paula Younger
H.D. and Frances Morgan