Camp Legends: A Double H Ranch Podcast

After a summer and fall hiatus, Kate and Jacqui are back to catch you up on all the latest camp news and share what's been happening in their lives. Tune in to hear about the 2024 Giving Tuesday Campaign, exciting plans for bringing back some camp classics to camp, how you can stay connected to camp this holiday season and how Jacqui navigates being off script on this episode.

Jacqui and Kate take to the streets of Double H and find out what some members of our year round team are looking forward to during the summer of 2024.    Kate also shares about some exciting changes this summer at camp and how everyone is preparing for the best summer ever!  

Join us for the first episode of 2024!  We are sorry to our listeners that this has taken so long.  Kate and Jacqui share many camp updates including the Summer 2024 theme, a recap of our winter program and what they have been up to.   As always, if you have ideas or people you want to hear from, please reach out to Kate or Jacqui.  

On this lengthy, but highly entertaining episode, Jacqui and Kate sit down with our residential nurse team from this past summer and learn all about their experiences as camp nurses and how their careers have been impacted by camp.  There is a lot of laughter, sharing of favorite meals and reminiscing on our favorite camp songs!  Enjoy this episode with Nurse Maggie, Nurse Leslie, Nurse Cassie and Nurse Vieve.  A special thank you to MedSolutions who financially supported our residential nurse team through a generous donation to the SeriousFun Children's Network.

We are back and kicking off Season 3 of Camp Legends with an always popular episode!  In this episode we hear from our alumni campers about their time at camp this past summer.  We also get caught up on Kate and Jacqui's post summer vacations and hear about the famous "dog cabin" at Double H.  Enjoy!

In our 20th episode, Kate and Jacqui interview our new CEO, Alison Wilcox!  You'll hear how Alison learned about Double H, her experience at various youth development programs, and her excitement for her future here at Double H.  We hope you enjoy this episode and get to know our new CEO, Alison!

In this episode, Kate and Jacqui interview the amazing and talented Corinne Lafayette about her role as the Family Outreach Coordinator at the Double H Ranch.  You are in for a treat because you will also get to learn about Corinne's cat, her first job and a recent adventure she took in the sky!Please enjoy this episode with Corinne Lafayette.*This episode was recorded in May prior to camp starting but due to the busy nature of camp is just getting published now. Thanks for understanding. 

In this episode, Jacqui and Kate share why they had to take a podcast hiatus and the challenging situations that they have faced over the past six months.  They also share about all the preparation for the summer and the exciting things that are happening at camp. 

In this special mini-episode, Jacqui and Kate share Double H's 2022 Giving Tuesday Campaign and how YOU can get involved!  They discuss the Play It Forward Campaign and what excitement you can expect tomorrow, November 29th, 2022 during #GivingTuesday! 

During this episode, we got out into camp to hear the sounds of summer camp!   Give a listen and remember how magical summer camp is.  Thanks to Julia, Josie and Kolby for interviewing campers, staff and volunteers.  Enjoy the sounds of summer!

We kick off our first episode after Summer 2022, with a very special episode that features our alumni campers.  During the alumni session, campers aged 17-21 get to come back to camp for a unique and different week at camp.  They participate in workshops, camp activities, give back to camp events all while reconnecting with each other and the staff.  This episode features interviews with our Alumni campers and interviews conducted by our Alumni campers!  Enjoy a glimpse into our Alumni Session 2022!

Everyone knows that camp doesn't just happen and that it takes a lot of work to get ready for the most magical summer ever but today we go behind the scenes of what the preparation of camp feels like.  We hear from Kate's wife Lacey as she shares how she keeps Kate calm before the summer and we hear from Jacqui's husband Scott as he shares how important camp is to their family.  The entire team at Double H works extremely hard to make summer camp happen and there isn't enough gratitude in the world to acknowledge the work that goes into making a summer at Double H, the best one ever.  Through it all, we made it here to Summer 2022.

We interview Double H's very own Creative Engagement Director, Julia Martini.  Julia shares with us how she started at Double H, what skills she learned from being a summer staff member and how she has made working at Double H her career.  We also share a letter from a staff member from 2010 who talks about how camp still impacts her and her family today.  Get the tissues ready.  

We are back from our holiday hiatus with exciting updates on our holidays, Kate's love of TikTok, Jacqui's confusion over TikTok, and most importantly our ADAPTIVE WINTER SPORTS PROGRAM.  Listen as we take the show out on the mountain and hear from our volunteers, campers, and families as they participate in our Adaptive Winter Sports program.  

We're wrapping up the year and ushering in the 2022 Staff Application! Jacqui and Kate reflect on their "roses and thorns" of 2021 and call two former staff members to chat about their time at Double H. Join Chris "Chocolate" Guidarelli and Becca Wagner as they share why they loved working at camp and how the experience has  impacted their career paths.  We'll also find out why Chris's dog joins him at work and which celebrity Becca has loved working with the most.  From all of us at Double H, we wish you a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year! 

This week's episode is our first-ever Counselor Corner episode.  We hear from some of the 2021 summer staff as they share their experiences at camp and why camp is so important to them!  Our counselors make the magic happen and for that, we are so appreciative.   Kate and Jacqui take some time at the end of the episode to share the gratitude they have during this Thanksgiving season.  We hope you enjoy Camp Legends: Counselor Corner episode!

We had an amazing summer at Double H this year!  We hosted six weeks of summer camp at a reduced capacity and had an absolutely wonderful time being back on site.  Join Jacqui and Kate as they talk to campers who were at camp this summer, and reach out to an old camp friend!  

Join Griff and Pezz this week as they reflect on how difficult times (showers) in our lives can end up bringing us good things (flowers) when we stop to recognize it. Listen as they interview a camper about how some "showers" in their life have brought about "flowers", share a song written by a camper with Hear Your Song and answer some questions about camp opening this summer. Finally, be transported to camp in your mind as former counselor Maddy McColl leads you through a beautiful visualization meditation. 

During this episode, Jacqui and Kate talk about the changes they have experienced this past year and also talk to Dr. Gerry Florio.  Dr. Gerry is a Clinical Health Psychologist at Glens Falls Hospital and also provides Double H with psych-social support throughout the year.  Dr. Gerry talks about the changes he has seen over the past year, how to cope with those changes and why camp is so important to him.  Please enjoy!

Join Pezz, Griff, and a whole slew of campers and counselors this week as they share how they find the joy that is all around them both during this crazy pandemic and every day in their lives. 

It has been a year since we shut our doors to in-person programming and moved to virtual programs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.  We knew that this episode had to contain lots of joy, so we turned to two long-time Double H volunteers to bring us that joy.  Pat and Dom are amazing humans and camp volunteers and shared with us the magic and memories of camp and how they have coped with such a different and difficult year.    Get ready to laugh, smile, and take a trip down memory lane with the Martinos!  

Join Pezz and Griff as they interview two different sets of people whose friendships started at Double H! First, Griffin and Regan show us the beautiful bond between campers that can arise at camp and continue beyond. Then, we have Marquise (Shamu) and Parker, whose counselor-camper friendship is one of mutual inspiration and respect. Also catch an exclusive recording of one of our camp songs, and this month's riddle! 

Camp fills our hearts up with love and for this February edition of Camp Legends, we talk to three people who love camp in very meaningful ways.  Chris Woll and Kate Woll met at the Double H Ranch and Jacqui chats with them about finding love at camp and how camp has impacted their lives.  Dr. Ray Walsh is a camp legend and Kate talks with him about how his love of camp and the mission of camp-inspired their whole family to get involved with Double H.  Enjoy and Happy Valentine's Day!

The second episode of Camp Legends is a Kid Takeover edition. In this episode, Chris (Pezz) Pezzulo and Alex (Griff) Griffen interview two campers about their camp experiences, share the Double H story during Storytime, and try to stump our campers with some riddles! They ask an older camper, Jason, and a younger camper, Ellie, how they think camp began, and how their camp stories started. 

This first episode is focused on  "Camp Origins."  Kate Walsh and Jacqui Royael interview Double H CEO Max Yurenda and the daughters of our founders, Charlene Wood and Clea Newman and share what they learned "because of camp".