Rock Climbing & Ropes Course
We’re still looking to fill some positions on our 2019 team! We need wonderful people to help us provide life changing experiences to our campers and help them have fun, make friends, and grow.
Camp Nurse (RN)
Join our Wellness Center team and help take care of our campers and staff members’ health needs! Currently, we have one nurse position open for Session 1 (June 22-July 6) and for Session 2 (July 6-20). Openings are for either the first week of the session or both weeks.
Office Administrator
This is an opportunity to join the administrative team at one of California’s premier summer sleep-away camps. You will be working with our office team to provide world-class customer service to the parents of our campers, who come from around the world. The primary job duties include answering parent phone calls and helping to answer their questions as well as clerical work (attaching HR files to staff records, recording reports from counselors about campers etc.), and working in our camp store.
On May 19th, we had a great visit to Northern California as the GAC Runners participated in the Schoolhouse Rocks 5K to benefit the Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation and we then hosted a GAC Party at Holbrook-Palmer Park in the evening.
At the race, the GAC Runners had a great time running and participating in the expo after the race. We loved seeing the many campers and their families who joined us!
In the evening, we had a wonderful time meeting more than 100 campers and their family members. We enjoyed pizza for dinner, played some carnival games, and had a first-year family orientation. It was great to see so many smiling faces!
If you’d like to take part in our final first-year family orientation (online), you can join us on June 2nd at 4 PM Pacific time. The event is an opportunity to watch an orientation video and then ask camp directors your questions. You can RSVP for that event here.
This summer, Nina Adams will be returning to join our staff for the first time as an Activity Counselor on our sailing dock. Nina spent 5 Sierra summers at GAC as a camper and wrote the following article about camp for the Larchmont Chronicle.
This summer, I will finally be returning home to Gold Arrow Camp, this time as a counselor. I am looking forward to reuniting with my friends from several summers ago and reliving my camp childhood memories.
-Nina Adams
Longtime camper, Nina Adams, wrote an article for the Larchmont Chronicle titled “Unplugged, Rustic Bliss: Camping in the High Sierra.”
As summer approaches, every kid has an activity he or she looks forward to most. For some it might be video games; for others, it is traveling with family; for me, it was always Gold Arrow Camp.
Gold Arrow is a sleepaway camp located on Lake Huntington in the High Sierra for kids ages six to 15. The camp is a traditional summer camp in the truest sense, offering campers an unplugged (as in no electronic devices!), rustic outdoor experience. Campers live in cabins for two weeks, and they participate in daily activities including horseback riding, hiking, water skiing, backpacking and rock climbing.
When I left for sleepaway camp at age 10, I had tears in my eyes and an unmatched anxiety. Would I make friends? Would I get homesick? I was beyond nervous concerning the two weeks I was about to have away from home. After my long, five-hour bus ride to the High Sierra, my feelings instantly changed. No one could have prepared me for the thrill and excitement I would feel when I stepped off the bus onto the campgrounds on Lake Huntington.
On the afternoon of May 5th, more that 300 GAC campers and their families met with our camp directors and some of our great staff for our southern California GAC Party. We celebrated Cinco de Mayo with dinner, songs, games, and the opportunity for parents and campers to ask experienced GAC campers and parents questions. We’re thrilled that so many new parents and campers were able to come and get a little taste of what camp is going to be like!
The event also served as a book signing for our Chief Visionary Officer, Audrey “Sunshine” Monke, whose debut book, Happy Campers, is now available for purchase.
If you live in northern California, we’re coming your way with our GAC Party in Atherton on May 19th! Details and RSVP for that event are available here.
Enjoy some photos from the southern California GAC Party:
Happy Campers: 9 Summer Camp Secrets for Raising Kids Who Become Thriving Adults is on sale in the US today!
In Happy Campers, Sunshine shares what she’s learned from over three decades at Gold Arrow Camp creating a community that campers and staff call a “second home” and their “happy place.”
You can order Happy Campers at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Books-a-
Join Sunshine on Facebook Live tomorrow (May 8) at 12:00 pm PT / 3:00 pm ET for an online book launch celebration and discussion.
Check out the Happy Campers Book Hub for many free resources, including a Happy Campers Workbook and Discussion Guide, 2019 Summer Read-Along Schedule, and much more!
Join the Happy Campers Book Club Group on Facebook to join Sunshine this summer as she covers one “secret” per week in July and August!
Come see Sunshine and get your book signed at an upcoming event:
May 16 (6-8 pm) – Branches Books & Gifts (Oakhurst, CA): Book Launch Party, Signing, Q & A, and Live Podcast Recording
May 19 (4-6 pm) – GAC Northern California Party (Atherton, CA)
May 20 (7-8 pm) – New Brighton Middle School (Capitola, CA): Raising Kids Who Become Thriving Adults Talk & Book Signing
May 30 (5-7pm) – Linden Tree Books (Los Altos, CA): Book Signing (it’s also farmer’s market day in Los Altos!)
Already have your copy? Post a photo of yourself (or your GAC camper!!) with a copy of the book. Tag Sunshine (@audreymonke on Twitter, @sunshine.parenting on Instagram, or @SunshineParenting on Facebook) or use the #happycampersbook hashtag!
Thank you so much for joining Sunshine in sharing ideas for raising kids who become thriving adults!
Join the GAC Runners for the Schoolhouse Rocks 5K in Menlo Park! We’re thrilled to back to help support the Menlo Park – Atherton Education Foundation at this great event. We’ll be at the expo before and after the race, so please come and see us. The race starts at 9, and we’ll be taking a group picture with all of our GAC friends and families at our booth at 10 AM.
Information and registration available here.
Learn more about GAC Runners! While you’re reading about the GAC Runners, you can also tell us what races you’re running in a request your GAC Runners moisture-wicking shirt!
Though many of our traditional two-week sessions are full, we still have space in some of our teen programs and specialty camps.
For teens, we have spaces in both of our Junior Counselor sessions for boys. We also have space in our second Outdoor Leadership Course, which runs from August 4th through the 17th. You can learn more about the Junior Counselor program here, and our Outdoor Leadership Course here.
We also have space in our Mini Camp program, which is a one-week program. Mini Camp is a great opportunity to experience Gold Arrow Camp in a shorter format, or to get a last burst of positivity before you head back to school! More details about Mini Camp are available here.
At GAC, we love the Poetry Corner. One of our favorite parts of PoCo is the reading of haikus. Haikus are poems that are three lines long, with the first line having 5 syllables, the second line having 7 syllables, and the third line having 5 syllables.
So we’re going to have a contest! Just send your best camp-related haiku to us (mail@goldarrowcamp.com) by Monday, April 15th. We’ll share the best camp-themed haikus on Wednesday, April 17th. Why the 17th? Because it’s National Haiku Day, that’s why! We can’t think of a better way to celebrate haikus than by sharing our favorites, and we can’t wait to read your haikus!
We’re thrilled to offer online Q & A sessions with camp directors. There will be two opportunities for you to join us virtually to discuss any questions you have about camp for 2019. These discussions are tailored to first-year families, but anyone with questions is welcome to attend.
The meetings will be hosted on zoom and we ask that you RSVP if you intend to join us. There will be a short presentation followed by an opportunity for you to ask questions and have them answered by experienced camp directors. The first online Orientation and Q & A will be on Wednesday, May 15th at 7 PM Pacific time. The second event will be on Sunday, June 2nd at 4 PM Pacific.
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP at this link. While you’re there, you can also RSVP for our GAC Parties in Northern and Southern California.
