*SOUND ON* We finally got snow!Dusting off the camp stock of sleds and toboggans..Digging out our cross country skis and getting the snow mobiles up and running again after a long hibernation ..Winter camp outtakes from a visit last winter
*sound on* When a squad of ballet dancers from @hubbardstreet take over camp in the dead of winter. .(No one has dared a sauna at midnight before or since).The Warmth of Winter .clip from the short by @qwharton
Wandawega winters:Slow seasonMobile Hot chocolate Sledbar season Snow games seasonGrateful seasonFixing-every-one-of-the-million-broken-things-seasonAlso…Shotski season
Favorite time of the year. Spent the. Weekend getting icerink building equipment – we finally have ice – ready for the snow .Thank you Vince cook for the family and Portrait shots
This Northern Pilke came out of Lake Wandawega . …turns out that these things have been lurking beneath the surface forever.Every year the locals drag their ice shanties out onto the lake to have some bourbon and try their hand at hauling in something like this neighbor did a few years back..This was the weekend they taught me how to auger a hole and set a line. (Scroll to see what we caught).Walking away with these teeny fish ice cubes gave me a whole new respect for the old school Wisconsin fishermen ..This sport is synonymous with Wisconsin winters – love the history here so much, and that its is still so embraced
When you find images guests have tagged you in – love that visitors shoot and share their stays with us! These lovelies by @theamericanswede and @erikengstrom44
Happy Everything from our house to yours. (From our very tiny house that warms up surprisingly quickly when blankets, friends and bourbon are added).Ps: Dear snow, you blanketed us at this time last year, where are you hiding?
TB part 2: ICERINK DINNERPARTY.Tailgate bourbon and hot chocolate bar on the lake. Cold toes, warm hearts..Pulling from our past camp rinks – inspiration for this years icerink-Smores and campfire Hot toddies extra spiked Skating with antique blades Johnny cash Christmas on PABlankets and friends #cantwait . …. Matthew Alan
When you decide it would be fun to throw a dinner party on the icerink & the chili freezes solid so you just empty all the bourbon bottles. #tbt ..#frozenlips #stillfun photos: @matthewallenphoto ( snowshoes by @vincecookstudio ) with @cargo_north
OUR ONLINE STORE LAUNCHED yesterday morning and sold out by the end of the day…… scrambling to ship everything out now in time for the holidays! Cant wait to do this again next year!If you suffer from Altussessiophobia (fear of old things) the new Shop will be your definition of hell. (Its all old things & the history they carry with them)30 ANTIQUES from our personal collection,30 BACK STORIES they harbor.If you believe (like we we do) that objects can hold karma from their owners of past generations, then this tiny shop has been stocked with energy of a bygone era. So we thought wed start a new tradition with them.To ring in a new decade, and to put 95 years of Camp history behind us.Weve picked one antique each from various rooms at camp to put back out into the world. Theyve served their purpose with us, in the lodge, the rathskeller, the treehouse guest library.Once a year – well share some of these little stories, then close the shop until this time next year.WE LOVE HISTORY. EVERYTHING IS INSPIRED BY HISTORY, SO THATS WHY WE LOVE ANTIQUES.Pretty much everything in the store has already outlived most people – several objects are over a century old.Heres the thing that we realized you can go to a bookstore and buy a new book on fly fishing. But you wont find a hand typed letter tucked in its pages from the author. Or notes in the margin, or pressed flowers under its covers.Were here to share the stories:The deadstock ones from Wisco souvenir shops.The new-old-stock treasures found in auction attics.Everything in our shop is a hand-me-down.Or was purchased as a gift to someone at some point.They arent fancy. But they arent any less valuable to the kid who got a Girl Scout cap in 1950.Heres to sharing 30 of our little storiesfrom our house to yours.HANGING THE SHINGLE TODAY;https://tinyurl.com/wxyvuss*LINK ON TODAYS PROFILE THE UNBOXING:comes packaged w/embroidered camp patch, postcard, fish hook clip, wrapped in a Wandawega map, inventory tagged with itss history. .1st @bobcoscarelli
