Trip Day Return

Glenn Breazeale | May. 28, 2015

A post from Carter:

Trip day is one of my favorite days in camp!  It is a chance for campers and counselors to take a break from their normal camp schedule and embark on a fun adventure.  This morning, all of camp loaded chartered buses and headed to Lake Winnie (an amusement park near Chattanooga).  What we thought might be a semi-rainy day, ended up being one of the most beautiful blue skied days.  As I walked around the park today, there was a contagious since of excitement and happiness.

Every where you turned you could hear a group of campers erupt with laughter and screams as they took off on a ride or see a cabin stopping mid day to enjoy snow cones and icees in the shade.  I had the pleasure of riding the cannon ball roller coaster multiple times with several groups of campers.  I loved walking up the ramp and hearing them say to one another “sit with me!” or  “wasn’t that so awesome-let’s go again!”  And I would see one group of campers race with a counselor to a ride and then another group pile into paddle boats with a counselor and laugh together as they paddled around the lake.  So the day appealed to every kind of camper.  The buses rolled back into camp and campers hopped off the buses to take showers and get their mail.  I think all of camp will sleep well tonight!

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Glenn Breazeale
Glenn Breazeale

Like his own father, Glenn grew up as a camper at Alpine for six summers, coming from Jackson, MS each summer. He has served on staff at Alpine since 1997, working full time as Assistant Director from 2003 to 2005 and Director since 2006. Prior to that he gained experience serving in various capacities including cabin counselor, Head Counselor, Head of Project Adventure (Ropes course), Horseback instructor, and Program Director. Glenn’s love of camping and his desire to preserve the traditions of Alpine drew him back to camp to offer young boys the same opportunities he experienced. He met and fell in love with Carter during a Square Dance with Camp DeSoto.