Balcones Blog

All of the lastest news from camp during the summer and beyond.

Term 1: Team Competition Day, The Ted 10,000, & Week 2 Beginnings!

June 14, 2024

On Saturday, we began a new tradition at camp, beginning the day with the Senior Camper Girls Flag Football game in the morning. All of camp gathered for breakfast outside in the Grid Iron. While the girls were warming up, campers partook in a Slip & Slide & Dunk Tank, and the Work Crew hosted a tailgate, cooking bacon on the grill. The girls had a pre-game Gatorade race to decide who would get the ball first (the Spurs won). At halftime, we had a mini game for a pazookie (a chocolate chip cookie with ice cream). The Stars won... Read more.

Term 1: Women's & Men's Dinner, Cookout, & Week 1 Highlights!

June 08, 2024

Thursday night at Camp Balcones Springswe hosted the saught-after Women’s Dinner, a night of delicious appetizers – like sauteed shrimp, pot stickers, and made-to-order gourmet pizza – dancing and singing, an outdoor movie while the sun was setting, and an inspirational and empowering talk from our Girls Camp Director. Meanwhile, Boys Camp roasted hot dogs on Balcones Beach, swam in Lake Ted (which has been full to the brim, we are happy to report!), and had a chili cook-off! The boys also watched the NBA finals after dinner, and a few older campers brought their fishign rods and fished at... Read more.

Summer 2024 is Here!

June 07, 2024

Happy Summer 2024! Term 1 at Balcones Springs has kicked off with a ton of PHUN! On Sunday night, we began camp with our classic camp tradition – team initiation – where old campers put on their red, green, purple, or blue to welcome new faces to Camp Balcones Springs onto one of four camp teams, the Texas Rangers, Rough Riders, Silver Spurs, or Texas Rangers. Read more.

Term 4, Week 2 Recap: Sunday Baseline, Nights in San Miguel, & Camp Game Day!

August 03, 2023

On Sunday, girls, boys, and counselors put on their brightest whites and gathered in our lakeside amphitheater for our camp church service known as Baseline. This term’s Baseline speaker was Father Steve, a camp legend since 2010. Father Steve was the priest at St. Austin’s in downtown Austin, Texas, from 2008-2015. He then moved to New York and now resides in California. Father Steve focused his sermon on our camp verse, Philippians 4:4,5,7. In his sermon, he spoke of the difference between happiness and joy. While happiness and joy are both positive feelings, we derive these sensations from very different... Read more.

Woman's/Man's Dinner, Chili Cook-Off, & More!

July 30, 2023

GIRLS CAMP VERSION OF FRIDAY NIGHT: Girls camp executed an epic prank replacing the MANS Dinner ritual with a hyper-girly twist. Girs camp swapped out the turkey legs and ribs on parchment paper with fuschia table cloths decorated with dainty tiered vessels, pink cupcakes, unicorn petit fours and heart shaped cookies. Glitter explosions marked the boys entrance as they went into the Rio Grande! The boys were first confused, and then ENRAGED as they realized the insidious prank. The prank did not stop there – the boys’ camp director, Joshua, had been captured (handcuffed and blindfolded) and was being taken... Read more.