Date: September 6th 2010

FootFall is NEXT WEEKEND (Hooray!!) Here are some FootNotes:

1. Schedule: You will receive a final schedule in your registration packet. If you want to participate in the Dutch Crossing workshop, you'll find a sign-up sheet in the Dining Hall.
2. Cabins: Cabins do not contain small trash cans (there are large trash drums outside). Your registration packet will include a plastic bag (made from recycled milk jugs), which can be draped over a doorknob or hook and used for trash until Sunday (the bag may also be used to pack your wet towels and/or bathing suit for the trip home). Bring your own hangers, soap products, pillows, sheets/blankets or sleeping bags, and towels. Consider bringing a small "bedside" mat or rug to wipe your feet before getting into bed, and a fan, and a lamp or flashlight.
3. Pool: Stan Fowler will be our extra lifeguard, which means that the pool will be open all day except at meals and during the evening dances. The pool will be open for a late night swim after both the Friday night and Saturday night dances. The pool will be open for half an hour after the last dance -- from 3:15 to 3:45 on Sunday afternoon -- so that you can cool off before you start home. You MUST be out of the pool by 3:45, and out of your cabins by 4.
4. Food: There's a campers' refrigerator in the Dining Hall for special food items. Please mark them with your name or initials. We have posted the menu on the website so you can look it over in advance. This year the Friday late night snack will be in the Dining Hall, and the Saturday night snack will be in the Playhouse/Canteen. If you'd like to bring any extra goodies or beverages to share during the late night snacks, please do so -- there will be plenty of food, but additions are always welcome. If you bring something for each late night snack, there's the camper's refrigerator in the Dining Hall, and a refrigerator in the Playhouse/Canteen kitchen.
5. Registration: The registration office will be in the purple A-frame on Friday afternoon and evening. If you arrive after dark, there will be lighted signs and purple lights. Last year most people had arrived by 8:30, so between 8:30 and 9 we will move registration materials to the Dining Hall. If you get stuck in traffic and miss dinner, we will have sandwich makings, yogurt, and chocolate in a cooler at the registration office. The Timber Ridge office number is 304-856-2630, and there is an answering machine which will be checked frequently. Call to let us know if you will be late, or if you will not be arriving until Saturday morning, so we don't worry.
6. Cell phones: Most cell phones do not work in the camp itself (although some people get spotty reception at the top of the hill or along the gravel road leading to Hook Mill Road). Most cell phones do work along Route US 50 and spottily on WV 259.
7. Joke Show: If you'd like to submit a joke for Saturday night's Joke Show, we'll have a box, with 5 x 8 cards and pens, or print out your favorite in advance and bring it with you. No specific topic this year - it's open season.