What to Make This Summer? Art Directors Have the Answers
By Jessie FisherThis is your role-by-role guide to the jobs that keep the Lair running. By the end, you’ll see how every part—comes together to create the Lair’s special song.
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Welcome Home: Finding Your Rhythm at the Lair
By Jessie FisherA place where networks grow, traditions deepen, and new campers are welcomed but as part of a breathing, evolving community.
What It Takes to Keep the Lair Running
By Jessie FisherThis is your role-by-role guide to the jobs that keep the Lair running. By the end, you’ll see how every part—comes together to create the Lair’s special song.
21 People, 5 States, One Family: A Conversation with New Camper Rob
By Jessie FisherWhat makes the Lair different from other vacations? For Rob, “the Lair offered so many more informal opportunities to reconnect than had we been staying in a hotel, or a motel, or a theme park.”
Learning to Speak Lair: Decoding Camp Vocabulary
By Jessie FisherThe Lair has a vocabulary that weaves its way through everything, from the thwack of arrows in archery to the glow of campfires at day’s end. Here, “Hail” is a goodbye, “Buy-in” is a challenge, and “Disco Bingo” is exactly what it sounds like. Welcome to the Lair lexicon.
Lair Virtual Information Session
First-time camper? Tune in for a fun and informative glimpse at what you can expect from a Lair of the Golden Bear vacation.
7 Things to Know about Camping at the Lair
By Heather JohnsonIf you’re ready to take a break from your hectic day-to-day life and breathe in some cool mountain air, you’ll find everything you need at the Lair—a Cal alumni destination since 1949.
You Know You’re a Lair of the Golden Bear Camper When…
If you’ve ever spent part of your summer at the Lair of the Golden Bear, you know the Lair is so much more than just your typical summer camp.
