Canoe Camp

20 years ago, Canoe Camp 2005

Even without seeing his face, I think we all know who this is...

Did you go to Canoe Camp in the 1990s? Did you wear color combos of teal and purple? Did you sink the dock?

What are your memories from those years?

It has been a Canoe Camp special mini camp/reunion this last week of June 2023. It’s been 9 years since the last time Canoe Camp happened. Special thanks to Lance and Amy Kilpatrick for hosting and making hamburger night, and then taco night happen at their house.

We had the original canoes, original life jackets and paddles, and even sack lunches, a cookie break and punch in a jug. The only difference was we paddled down the Kankakee River in Illinois, instead of the Sacramento River in California. And Nick Sefton finally made it again to camp since his last time in 2002.

If you were at Canoe Camp in 2005, then here are your memories. We made this back before there were iPhones, before GoPros, and before camcorders had High Definition. But, there were still lots of capsizes and bruises that happened that year.

Also, the 2004 one is up too, on this same channel. It's got some weird music choices, and we didn't fully know what we were doing, but had a lot of fun on river that year too.

We sold both of these long videos on DVD to campers back then, so if you didn't buy one, then your wait paid off and now you can watch these for free on demand.

Canoe Camp 2005 Documentary Canoe Camp on the Sacramento River in between Redding and Red Bluff, CA.

Canoe Camp doesn't exist anymore, but because it's June, I just felt like posting some photos of a few good memories (specifically from 2008, if anyone is trying to guess).

Thank you to our host church, Gateway Community Church of the Nazarene. Thank you to Derek & Sheree Morrison, Luke & Sandee Broersma, Bud & Rita Englund, Crissy Fonseca, Kathy Hallett, Pat Dunn, Wes Faubel, Ray Wisner, Bob Kilpatrick, Samuel Werrbach, and Bennett and Tye Morrison for being key players in making this week a great week of camp!

Another successful Canoe Camp is in the books!

Check out more pics of camp on Sheree Morrison's page. I am too Smartphone illiterate to know how to get them on the CC page...and don't have enough time to figure it out.