Jul. 12, 2009
Appalachian Immersion Family Camp (Elkins area)
Dolly Sods Appalachian Immersion Family Camp
August 3-7, 2009
Your full Appalachian Immersion "dude ranch" experience encompasses a 5-day/4-night adventure at the breathtakingly rugged Pegasus Farm in Elkins, West Virginia. Bring the whole family for a summer vacation you'll never forget.
Accommodations for RV, popup, or tents, plus rental camper includes full service bathhouse with hot showers. Camp cookouts provided each night with an occasional bluegrass campfire jam; food barn available for snacks, breakfast, and lunch. Our outdoor adventure guides, environmental scientists, and musicians lead each day's activities. We offer rock climbing, caving, tubing, and hiking. Cultural immersion activities include seminars in dulcimer making, old time singing, and traditional Appalachian dancing. Environmental awareness and outdoor appreciation classes offered with time for stream surveying and fishing, Appalachian botany studies, outdoor cooking classes, and nature art. Each day will have activities for the whole family, just the kids, or just the parents.
Your choice for $700/family. Includes all campground fees*, food, activities, and instructor's fees (excluding some extracurricular activities) Register with Director Lynda Bell at LogCabinLearning via phone 301-676-7263.
Lynda Bell
312 West Main Street
Sharpsburg, MD 21782
PRORATED FEES AVAILABLE:
Single campers: $250/week
One parent/one child: $450/week
Full family: $700/week
OPTIONS TO STAY FOR LESS THAN FIVE DAYS ARE AVAILABLE! WE WILL PRORATE YOUR STAY BASED ON THE NUMBER OF DAYS AND NIGHTS YOU WILL BE WITH US.
PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS, I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU TO MAKE THIS
AN AFFORDABLE TRIP FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. ITS AN EXPERIENCE YOU DON'T WANT
TO MISS!
A Day with Miss Bonnie on Pegasus Farm
There is a lovely spot deep in the hills of West Virginia, in the shadow of Seneca Rocks, that immediately makes you take a deep breath, and stop and stay for a while.
When you drive down the gravel lane, the first thing you see is a little white farmhouse with a dog named Zen and a kind woman with a kerchief on her hair and a smile on her face. And beside her, always beside her is a twinkling smiling man. This is Mark and Bonnie, the proud proprietors and owners
of Pegasus Farm and Campground.
I was very fortunate to be introduced to these two wonderful people by a good friend who told me he thought they would be interested in talking to me about sponsoring family camps on their farm. So with their generous invitation to drive down and spend the weekend with them, I packed up the car and headed up and over the hills past the shadow of the great Seneca Rocks, and into the little valley of Elkins, West Virginia.
After a fantastic weekend of Bonnie's belly warming down home cooking, a tour around the farm, visits to the Augusta Folk Art Center, the Graceland timber baron's mansion, and the Stuarts Recreation Area, we all found a common vision coming together of how to share this wonderful place with other families.
I had the opportunity of going back again another weekend to work with several families who had come together for a work weekend on the farm. Some of us worked on rebuilding a stage roof on the festival grounds that had blown off in last year's big storm. I spent time with a sweet group of young children
fishing in the farm pond, making flower crowns, and hunting for tadpoles.
After finishing the work on the farm, we all gathered together in one of the Pegasus Farm buses and drove the crew over to Seneca Rocks for a day of rock climbing. As I rounded the corner of the trail with a group of energetic teenagers and our guide, I had to stand still for a moment and just experience the overwhelming awe that overcame us all as the shadow of Seneca loomed over us. To find yourself in the presence of such beauty and power is a moment of complete humility and perspective. To suspend yourself in space within only a crack in the rock, to wedge your fingers and toes in, to reach for the top, to
test your strength is an adrenaline rush that drives you further and higher to the bright blue sky above.
These are the sights, sounds, and feelings of spending time in this magical valley and the inspiring hills around it. These are the experiences that brought me to the place where I can offer you an invitation to join us.
If you are interested in spending time with us at Pegasus, take a moment and explore the Pegasus Farm website, as well as finding more camp details and contact us!
We would love to hear from you and have you share your ideas of how we can tailor this experience to meet your family's needs and interests. I hope to see you soon at Pegasus Farm!
Lynda |
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