Mid-November Update: We Are Grateful For You

by Ariella Rogge on November 18

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After successfully hosting the ACA’s Rocky Mountain Conference at The Nature Place last week and preparing for the WORLD PREMIERE of our BRAND NEW, Oscar-worthy Sanborn Western Camps Movie in Denver on 11/19 and Louisville on 11/20, we are looking forward to having some time for reflection during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Having the opportunity to be part of your child’s educational and developmental journey is incredibly humbling. In this season of gratitude, we want each of you to know how grateful we are for your commitment to the summer camp experience–and, specifically–to the Sanborn Western Camps experience.

Sanborn is unique, even among camps, because our mission is almost as expansive as the 6,000 acre camp property and as our 2 and 4 week long programs. Summer camp is designed to build community and be fun…and Sanborn does this while deepening individuals’ perspectives on the world, on themselves and on their place in the universe. Campers and staff are successful in this work because, at camp, they learn they can do hard things.

Many of the trips we do are physically challenging, often giving rise to the internal voice of self-doubt, “Can I actually do this?” And, because of supportive staff members, friends from all over the world, and a session length that allows for both growth and reflection, the answer is most often, “Yes, I can. Yes, I will. Yes, I did.”

It is all of those moments of individual and collective triumph that we look back on fondly during this holiday season, and we are grateful to our campers, camp families, staff members, alums and friends of camp who continue to see and share the value of the experience with those around them.

We hope you can take time over the holiday to watch a sunrise or a sunset, to go on a late afternoon walk or run with a neighbor, share stories with family and friends around a dinner table, and reflect on the experiences, inspiration and significant effort that you have had and made to help the world be a better place…as seen in the people you care for daily.

You are raising exceptional, unique and magnificent children and we thank you, again, for sharing them with us. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Ariella Rogge
About Ariella Rogge

Ariella started her career at Sanborn when she was twelve. After five years of camper and five years of Sanborn staff experience, she continued her work with kids in the high school classroom. Ariella and her family returned to Sanborn in 2001 to take on the Program Director role which she held til 2012. She and Elizabeth Marable became co-directors of High Trails in 2013 and then Ariella became the High Trails Director in 2020. In the fall of 2022 she became the Director of Sanborn Western Camps, overseeing the director teams of both Big Spring and High Trails. She lists mountain golf, Gymkhana, climbing mountains and making Pad Thai in the backcountry as some of her favorite activities at camp. Ariella received a B.A. in English from Colorado College and is a certified secondary English educator,an ACCT Level 2 Ropes Course Technician, an ARC lifeguard and NREMT and WEMT. She lives in Florissant in the summer and in Green Mountain Falls during the school year so she can stay involved with the busy lives of her husband, Matt, and two teenage sons, Lairden and Karsten.