CNN Heroes: Hero Recharge Program at Sanborn

by Ariella Rogge on November 06

CNN Heroes: Hero Recharge Program at Sanborn Western Camps

This weekend we are excited to host another First Descents Hero Recharge weekend for our local frontline health care workers. We are thrilled they are back at camp and looking forward to rock climbing, hiking and spending time with these amazing heroes!

Check out the CNN profile on the First Descents Hero Recharge program we ran earlier this fall–you’ll recognize the Four-Story Treehouse, The Nature Place, Wild Goat Mountain and Witcher Rocks!

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Ariella Rogge
About Ariella Rogge

Ariella started her career at Sanborn when she was twelve. After five years of camper and five years of Sanborn staff experience, she continued her work with kids in the high school classroom. Ariella and her family returned to Sanborn in 2001 to take on the Program Director role which she held til 2012. She and Elizabeth Marable became co-directors of High Trails in 2013 and then Ariella became the High Trails Director in 2020. In the fall of 2022 she became the Director of Sanborn Western Camps, overseeing the director teams of both Big Spring and High Trails. She lists mountain golf, Gymkhana, climbing mountains and making Pad Thai in the backcountry as some of her favorite activities at camp. Ariella received a B.A. in English from Colorado College and is a certified secondary English educator,an ACCT Level 2 Ropes Course Technician, an ARC lifeguard and NREMT and WEMT. She lives in Florissant in the summer and in Green Mountain Falls during the school year so she can stay involved with the busy lives of her husband, Matt, and two sons, Lairden and Karsten.