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Iglesia De Jesus Christo
Memorial day week end Iglesia came to Whisper Canyon. They have been coming to the camp for more than 15 years. They use it as a family camp. They are a local church from King City. Sometimes they...
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20 Something group came to work
Friday PM, this group of 12 rolled in. They were looking for some projects they could tackle. Saturday morning they started with the green paint and painted all the picnic tables and serving shelves....
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A step forward on the zipline
Friday afternoon we took delivery of a load of rock. We need to have some soft fall protection material under the travel way and will use the rock to contain that material. Now we need to spread them...
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Good Samaritan Church
Friday afternoon they started showing up from San Francisco.They brought tents to sleep in. It was fun watching them think through the set up process. On Saturday they wanted to work. So we started on...
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Animals
I removed the game camera from Kavanugh creek a few weeks ago due to lack of activity and the 40 minute hike just to get to it. I placed the camera on a fence post near the water tank in hopes of...
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Golden Calf and the spike buck
Just wanted to share a picture of the bison calf. It reminds me of a giraffe the way the legs are growing. Rather distinctive color at this point. Not sure of what sex it is just yet.The deer have come...
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Quilt show, Hesperia Hall
Friday 9-16 Hesperia Hall had their monthly potluck. We have been able to make some of them. It is always a fun time meeting more of the locals, visiting with those we have met previously. This months...
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Iglesia De Jesus Christo
This church group from King City has been coming to Whisper Canyon since 1996. They invite other churches to join them. This last weekend there were folks from Milpitas and Salinas. They always have...
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First storm of the season
Wednesday we got our first storm of the season. It was 1 nice 3/4′ rain.It reduced the fire danger and settles some dust. Then Thursday we had some light rain for maybe an hour. As the day wound to a...
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Work Day
Saturday 10-8 Ted Mort and some men from Atascadero Gospel Chapel came to work.They brought some wonderful upgrades to the camp. Scott is skilled at adjusting doors. Three of the chapel doors and one...
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Sunday Work Day
Oscar from the King City Church brought 7 young men up to the camp to work. Oscar works 6 days a week so Sundays are his only day to volunteer. I had them pick up where the men left off on Saturday. So...
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Fibar for the zipline
Thursday just before lunch the driver arrived with two trailers full of fibar. I met him at the bottom of the hill, drove him to camp and showed him where we wished the material dumped. I did that to...
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Zipline is a little closer
A group from Cupertino came down to practice their acappella singing. They call themselves The Grace Notes. So they practiced Saturday morning and helped on the zip-line in the afternoon. Spreading...
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Zip Line is up and running
Thursday 12 15 Sean and Nate come down from Scotts Valley and put the finishing touches on the zip line Sean took one of the first test runs using a climbing harness. Jennifer put on the harness and...
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Vespers, 1-5-12
Thursday nights Saint Luke’s Episcopal church has been hosting a pot luck meal prior to to evening vespers. We have been able to attend a few times It is not a large group, maybe 18 folks have been...
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Some workers came
Some folks came to work this weekend. We found a few items to work on that were not on the to do list but needed to be done. The rafters on the pole barn had some dry rot and needed to be trimmed...
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A few more pictures
Sonya sent me a few pictures she had taken from last weekend Left to right Zen, Amy, David and Sonja , they had just filled the trailer with leaves Unloading leaves in the field Sonja testing the zip...
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Tent sorting weekend
The weekend of the 19th we had the 20 something group come down to Whisper Canyon. They are from our home church PBCC in Cupertino. We have this heap of tent ribs in the back corner of the shop.I...
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Game camera
I have set the game camera up on an Oak tree at the Wye in the road. Lots of deer and rabbit pictures at 3AM. Here are some of the more interesting ones. We supect this Bob Cat is a cross breed. He is...
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PBCC
Similar to last year, the trip was delayed a day due to rain, They came for a week to do vacation bible school in King city. But that story is for others. What happened at Whisper Canyon was...
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Play structure and a peeping tom
Here is a picture of the first play structure completely assembled. I have just barely started moving the fibar under it. Eric came up the weekend PBCC left and helped me add the last platform and then...
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Fire pit and century plants
Jon started our new fire pit back in early April by laying out the firebricks. Last week Jennifer and I added the construction blocks for strength and volume. Her she is helping wet down some tools and...
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Iglesia’s spring retreat
It is always nice to host Iglesia De Jesus Christo. They have been using Whisper Canyon for more than 10 years. Pastor Arturo was teaching on the cross, which is in view from the amphitheater. There...
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Century plant
I spotted this stalk back on April 28th. It was already about 4′ tall So I stopped by on May 19th and got this picture. Notice the grasses have changed as well We rolled into camp this afternoon and I...
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Bay Area Baptist
Bay Area Baptist came down to Whisper on Thursday June 21st. It was a men and boys retreat. Here are some of them enjoying breakfast. This was their “black market kitchen” Here one of the guys fixed...
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Century plant @ 3 months
This was taken on July 25th. In just over 3 months this stalk shot up and has some form of blossoms on it. I am not sure if it will fill out some more or not. Keeping an eye on it.
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Water ski weekend
PBCC from Cupertino held another water ski weekend at Whisper canyon. They have been using Lake Nacimiento for their skiing adventures. They went straight to the lake on Friday morning then spent the...
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The animals are moving around
We are finding that some of the animals have changed their patterns. We are finding the does closer to the house we stay in. These gals were settled in just below us a few days ago and snoozed for a...
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Back in July
While the PBCC high School water ski trip was going on Sonja and her friend Randy helped work on the fire pit we had started. They are adding rock fascia to the fire bricks we had put in place...
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Stockader’s and food
We had a group of stockade boys from Cupertino use the camp the weekend of the 20th. This was a group of 14 men and boys. They helped clean up bark around the log splitter and hang some pre made bat...
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Animals
Fall is when spring is anticipated. A time of new births . Here are some pictures of the buck deer being interested in the does. You can see 2 bucks who are both interested in one of the does. Over...
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Housing for day sleepers
A few weekends ago the PBCC stockade boys mounted some bat houses here at Whisper canyon. Actually the leaders did the mounting. We are trying to encourage the bats and the assistance they provide in...
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Changes at Whisper Canyon
The week of March 25th was a busy week at Whisper Canyon. PBC Cupertino and PBC Willow Glen came down and engaged in several activities in King City. Vacation Bible School was held at three of the...
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First Baptist Church of Stockton at Whisper Canyon
This past week was fun. We had about 20 Jr High folks come to Whisper Canyon. What surprised us is the wanted to work. Here Roger and some student assemble a soccer goal. There was some demolition they...
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Prepping for some Yurts at Whisper Canyon
First Baptist Church of King City had some men come and help drill holes for the next few yurt decks. This happened the first two weekends of November. They drilled 100 holes over two weekends. There...
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Framing the Decks at Whisper Canyon
We had 11 framers come in and start building the decks. Most of the holes had drained from the previous weekends rain. The wire keeps the mice out of the fiberglass which is only under the yurt floor....
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Framers Returned to Whisper Canyon
One deck is getting framed while the far one has the yurt floor installed. The storm of 3 weeks ago did no damage, just postponed things a bit.I did have a tarp on some plywood with 2 pallets holding...
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It was a four yurt day at Whisper Canyon
Decks were ready and volunteers contacted. So the assemble started early Saturday morning. Here we are as they guys ate lunch. The above yurts are to the east. Below are the two yurts nearest to the...
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Framers came for a weekend
We had the some of the framers come back to Whisper to share the camp with their families back in June. Sweet time having them at camp. Of course Salvador wanted to work, so he made some steps to one...
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Home Schoolers
Some families from Atascadero area came for a class in creation science. The kitchen is an important part of the camp experience The merry go round is always popular with the students Source:...
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Framers at Whisper Canyon
We had 11 framers come in and start building the decks. Most of the holes had drained from the previous weekends rain. The wire keeps the mice out of the fiberglass which is only under the yurt floor....
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Way back in March at Whisper Canyon
PBCC is our first group of the season. They come in and hold Vacation Bible School with several of the churches in King City. Here is some worship time at the camp. Charlie from Mount Hermon was their...
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Comunidad Cristiana de Fe
This group come from King City. It is a ministry reaching out to students giving them alternatives on Friday nights They had some teaching times and just enjoyed the camp and hanging out. Source:...
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Saint Elizabeth Catholic Church, Milpitas
This weekend we hosted a group of young folks from Milpitas. There were about 80 students from 7 to 17 years old. They have a club called TNTT which promotes God as well as teaches about their culture....
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Star Gazers at Whisper Canyon
Early September, we had astronomers come to Whisper Canyon. For the previous eight years they had used Lake San Antonio. I hear it was a barren 5 acre parking lot, but the viewing was pretty good being...
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PBCC week at Whisper Canyon
The high school advance team comes in on Saturday to get organized for the week. They do a VBS program in King City at three of the churches. Wednesday they do a clothing give away in town. Here is a...
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Chimney fire, rebuffed
All photo’s were taken by Katrina Hearne, forwarded to me by Marty Wize Pictures taken from west of the camp looking generally S SE from our neighbors property. Received them as text messages. Jennifer...
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Some More Chimney Fire Pictures from Whisper Canyon
The camp did not lose any structures. Immensely grateful to God and the men who fought the fire. We got to the camp Friday 8-26 about 6PM and got over an hour tour with blow by blow commentary from the...
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Extent of the fire at the camp
Here is a crayon representation of where the fire came through the camp. My crayon skills have degraded a bit, but as you can see, while it came close to some buildings, the fire did no damage. On a...
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Whisper Canyon Spared from the Chimney Fire
“If the fire had come up the canyon even three hours earlier, we’d have had to pull out, and Whisper Canyon would have been lost.” Camp Hosts Larry and Jennifer Lewis heard those words while being...
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