Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend your summer in Rock-N-Water's Trainee program? Each year at Rock-N-Water, six to seven individuals, who have applied for this program, are chosen to serve at camp as trainee's. Trainee's are like baby guides, they come to camp and get to learn all about camp [...]
Have you ever thought about working for Rock-N-Water as a 49er Fun guide in the spring? The 49er fun program makes history come alive for 4th graders. As a guide, you get to play a role from the past and be a living history guide from the gold rush, and teach 4th graders that God [...]
“I think people need to work hard and be diligent, but everyone needs a good laugh to keep them going.” […]
A letter from Craig Lomax – February 2019 Dear Friends, I am excited (and a little sad) to share with you some big news from Marianne and I. After 29 years, we have decided to close our time at Rock-N-Water. It was a difficult choice to make, but it is time for us to embark [...]
Preparing for your group’s trip to camp is time consuming and can be stressful at times so it is important to try to get this done as soon as you can before camp. This is really helpful when it comes to prepping for camp for the youth leader themselves. This means taking time yourself to [...]
When you are taking a group of students to camp, there always seems to be something left undone, some seemingly tiny detail that eludes you until it becomes blazingly unavoidable to recognize that failure to check that box, can have a significantly detrimental impact on the overall quality of your [...]
All youth leaders at some point try different things that will provide the opportunity for the kids of their youth group to get along well and really get to know each other. While you can easily still do those things at home, many youth leaders and groups are finding that taking the group to a [...]
If you’ve ever adventured with us at our summer camp over the past years, you may have seen our guides wearing a specific type of sandals which are called Chaco Sandals. Many of our summer guides have these shoes at our camp because of their durability and strong grip that is necessary for the [...]
There are certain certifications that every Rock-N-Water summer staff has to go through before they can guide campers on the water such as CPR and WFA (Wilderness First Aid). Because these certifications are so important to the safety of our campers, Rock-N-Water choose and continues to choose Sierra Rescue to train our staff for these [...]
The search for the perfect dry bag You would think that when looking for the perfect dry bag that one of your requirements wouldn’t be “that it stays dry inside.” Isn’t that a given? […]
