Underhill Update Blog

Every year the Explore program finishes the year by taking a final trip that has come to be known as the ‘Team Trip’. It is planned out by the Junior Interns (1st year interns) and the program staff at Bighorn serve a supporting role. The past few years that has meant hiking out ahead of the students to pre-established check points. Upon arrival we wait for each team to check in and then give them some piece of info for the rest of the trip.

This year Andrea and I went out with Leanna Guinn (our staff member) and Zach Vanderwall (Training Support Director). This year’s trip took a route we have used many times in the past starting just up out of Plains. We head to the top of Mount Baldy which towers over the Plains valley and then continue on the other side back down into the town of Hot Springs, Montana. We finished the trip yesterday and had a great big pig roast in the town of Hot Springs to celebrate.

It is hard to believe that we are getting ready to say goodbye this Friday to another group of Explore students. I am now finishing up my 6th year working with the program. It is a privilige to be able to interact with and lead such quality young men and women every year. I love the opportunity we have at camp to impact college age students and see them grow and develop into Christian leaders. As we draw to a close on this year, I am reminded that this program is the reason why I am at camp in the first place. I never imagined I would be working at a camp anytime ever in my life and yet here I am coming up on my the completion of my fourth year as a full time staff member with Bighorn.

Times change and we are looking at new ways to connect with a constantly changing base of students that come every year from a variety of backgrounds. One thing remains the same though, the power of the truth to penetrate to the core of who we are and demand our response. What a joy and adventure!