Monday, February 3, 2014

Pediatric Cancer camp teen volunteer opportunities?




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Any place in NJ, PA, or Delaware would be great. Teen volunteer age 17.


Answer
Check out the website of the Children's Oncology Camping Association. There is a listing of camps for children with cancer, as well as contact info for those camps. The camps that I'm familiar with don't necessarily take teen voluntee, but it can't hurt to ask. Some of the camps in the NJ & PA area are Camp Happy Times (which is in PA, but is actually for children coming from NJ), Happiness Is Camping, Camp No Worries, Camp Can-Do... and there are more.

The website is http://www.cocai.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userslist&listid=17&Itemid=156

Where Is there a place in pa to go boulderin and tent camping ?







I was looking for a place to go bouldering and then tent camping in pa and idk where to go that will let you camp in privacy so you can have a beer and a fire and like on a mountain or sonething


Answer
Cooper's Rock State Park, about an hour and a half south of Pittsburgh in Northern West Virginia, has great rock climbing and bouldering (Haystack Rock, halfway down the hill from the overlook, is great for bouldering but there are dozens of other cliffs there.) You can camp right across the highway from the Park at Chestnut Ridge campground that has cabins and a lot of various tent sites.

There are also good rock faces for climbing at McConnells Mills State Park about 45 minutes north of Pittsburgh near the intersection of highway I-79 and 422. There are both state and private camping areas in or near the park.

About an hour east of Pittsburgh at Laurel Mountain on Route 30 (east of Ligonier) there is Beam's Rocks which are not all that tall but OK for short climbs, though they will have a lot of vegetation on them this early in the year. There is fairly remote camping there along the hiking trails, especially the portions of the Laurel Highlands Trail that cuts through,

Although many of the camping areas do have formal rules barring alcohol, as long as you are quiet and discreet about it, you are not likely to get hassled for having a couple of beers in the evening at your camp site. If you get stupid and loud, the rangers may nail you but I have never had a ranger bother me as an adult camping in PA.

Be sure and check the restrictions this season on campfires. Due to an infestation of tree-damaging beetles, for the past few years PA campers have been told not to move or collect dead wood for fires. You have to buy split wood or bring your own clean wood to burn to prevent allowing the beetles to spread.




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