Articles in the ‘Featured Photo’ Category

In the Heart of the Rockies

This gallery of photos is a guest post from Michael Barton, a Deer Hill field staff member since 2002, who was Program Leader on our Heart of the Rockies adventure summer camp program last year. The Heart of the Rockies features the Weminuche Wilderness, the largest Wilderness area in Colorado. In the winter, Michael runs …

Featured Photo: Comb Ridge

This photograph, taken on our Wilderness Leadership program, shows the majestic height and length of the unusual geological formation known as Comb Ridge, Utah. Comb Ridge is a giant sandstone “monocline” that runs 80 miles north-south, in the center of the Colorado Plateau. Incredibly, the San Juan River actually cuts through the ridge, and it …

Sunrise over Mesa Verde

Walking to Deer Hill in the winter can be somewhat of an endurance test, especially with the winter we have had so far. Imagine yourself walking across an icerink with a snow gun directed into your face. But, every now and then your efforts are rewarded with a view like this: the beautiful Mancos Valley …

Featured Photo: Historic Service

This featured photo is community service-themed. In the past few years community service has become a buzzword in the world of teen summer camps and travel programs, and that’s great. At Deer Hill, community service for teens has been an integral part of our mission and values for two decades. We might even humbly suggest …

Featured Photo – Hopi Friend

Sarah Haynor and Richard Honeystewa hanging out in Hopi This photo, taken by Outreach Director Richard Malcolm while on a community service site visit with Canyon Country 2009, shows one of the special friendships created this summer at Deer Hill. Sarah Haynor, of Seattle, WA, is taking a break from the service work to hang …

Featured Photo – Nights in the Tipi

Dancin’ in the dark Deer Hill veteran leader Ryan Bonomoni took this evening shot of a group celebrating around a campfire in a traditional tipi at dusk this Spring. They built the Navajo tipi with Patricia Belinte and her family in Vanderwagen, New Mexico. The Belintes are a wonderful family, very connected to their cultural …