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Yup I worked with a girl for a week who had a tent phobia. So bad she went home in the middle of staff training.

Course you are speaking to the girl who will choose a tent over a cabin even on a cold night. And enjoys the weird looks for doing so.

You think the person who had tent phobia whould have known your camp had tents-- didnt that person look at the website or anything the camp director sent out before camp?

I slept in a tent only once last summer which was during staff training. Slept pretty comfortably too that night.

Well tents can be avoided if you try hard enough. We have troop houses, yurts, platform tents, screened cabins and all weather cabins. It's not had to escape them.

It is a bit of an odd phobia but I think the point I was trying to make and maybe not clearly enough is that unlike the USA in that camping in britian is done in a tent! If we are going to a cabin in the woods we say we are going to a cabin not a camp. So in signing up for CAMP America most people that I know assume it involves at least some camping in tents! But this girl had based her notions of what camp would be like on looking at private camps with lush cabins.

Because Camp America / BUNAC / CCUSA / etc is just *so* good about telling newbies about all the kinds of camps. They are obsessed with the private camps!

Sorry I'll turn off the sarcasm now and go back to my application form.

I know I have nothing to do with Cedarledge, but I love reading your posts... for some crazy reason. The tent phobia just made me laugh. When I was at GS camps, there was always a staffer who wouldn't want to live or go near tents! They always requested units with cabins or the lodge.

I've seen the same thing with Camp America and others. Many of the internationals think they are going to a private camp and then are very disappointed when they have to live in a unit in a tent.

- Teenster

I guess I been lucky since the camps I been at only had cabins... Even for camps that I voluntered at for a week we managed to get camps with only cabins. The volunter camps only rented the camps from exiosting camps

We get staff members who really hate the tents now and then... They generally get over it within the first session, or they decide that camp isn't for them. We also have had some international staff members (and most likely some Americans too) come, never looking into Cedarledge, only seeing the luxury cabins that Camp America apparently advertises, and expecting to get that. Always make sure to do your research!

Yeah my camp has all cabins too. We only have tents for when the older kids do overnight trips off of camp.

I also love reading the posts even though i have nothing to do with Cedarledge!

I can understand not particularly liking tents. I get people who like them for sure, but I've had some fun experiences with racoons getting into my stuff (yes, I had food and apparently it was not an airtight container, but i'm only in the tents like one week per summer and the awesome cabins the rest of the time). Ok, so I would be ok if i didn't bring food into the tent, except for the fact that I always need to go to the bathroom fairly badly when I wake up and having to put on shoes and run to the bathrooms is not very fun for me. I like the cabin haivng the bathrooms in them. Other than that, I like the tents! I certainly would get used to them if they ever put me in them for a whole summer, so maybe they should put me in my "learning zone" and do that, or I should do that for myself! I don't mind the no electricity. It's just the racoons and the bathrooms!

See the cabins at the GS camps I have worked at didnt have bathrooms in them! I love platform tents cos they remind me the the ridge tents that I used to camp in as a guide

Yea the cabins I've lived in usually have a Lat unit near by and it's always a case of getting up and walking. For some reason it takes about 2 weeks for me to train myself to not have to get up at 4am exactly.

I love sleeping in a platform tent, with the sides all rolled up so it's "floating". It's a glorius feeling with the breeze comming through and seeing nature all around you.

Ah and the deer walking past your front door. They usually seem less scared of tents than cabins. Maybe it's because the tent units are quieter...

I love floating platform tents!

aww, the deer walking by and the breeze! awesomeness I like the tents themselves, and that would be awesome! I especially love having the sides up on a sunny afternoon, maybe with a little light breeze going on. ahhh I don't know if I would trust the flaps up all night with our weather over here, even in the summer, but on sunny days, ahhhh Man, now i want ot chill in a platform tent on a sunny day right now!

Me too!

That feels SO nice! Or on a really hot night, letting the breeze flow through. Or when it's raining... I love the sound of rain on a tent. Most relaxing thing ever!

i love the sound of rain a tent too - and it soo much better on canvas than the nylon stuff of pop-ups!

it's such a wonderful sound.

also agreed!

Aw, much as I love Manor House, I'm gonna miss the tents this year. There's always precamp! LOL.

You could always choose to stay in a tent? Our add staff lived in tent city - which was 4 platform tents and a yurt - while nearlly all the rest of the staff lived in cabins or adaronacks.

Nah, I wouldn't skip living in Manor for the world. Ha can you imagine just setting up a tent in the yard and being like, CITs! If you need me I'll be outside!