COVID-19 Testing Updates

by Ariella Rogge on June 06

COVID continues to play a part in our summer planning processes, and our medical director has issued a few updates and additions to the pre-camp PCR COVID testing model for our camp families. We want to provide camp families with a larger window for acquiring the necessary pre-camp PCR testing. By increasing the time-frame to receive your pre-camp test, we are also building in an arrival cushion for individuals who may have had COVID recently, but who were asymptomatic.

  1. YOU DO NOT NEED TO ADMINISTER A PRE-CAMP COVID TEST if your camper has had a documented positive COVID test between March 12, 2022 and May 31, 2022, please make sure you have included that information in their Health History form as well as uploaded a copy of the positive result.

  2. If your camper has clinically or laboratory tested/tests positive for COVID on or after June 1st, 2022, please apply the following timeline:

  • Isolate your camper for 5 days per CDC recommendations from the positive test administration date or symptom onset (whichever is earlier).
  • Administer an at-home rapid antigen test on Saturday, June 11th or Sunday, June 12th, or on the sixth day after the original PCR test administration, whichever is LONGER.
    • If the at-home rapid antigen test is negative, please provide documentation (printed image, photo on phone) to the camper to bring with them to camp to show the nurses on Opening Day.
    • If the at-home rapid antigen test is positive, the camper will need to wait until 10 days after the original COVID (PCR or rapid-antigen) test administration date or onset of COVID symptoms (whichever is earlier) and must be asymptomatic prior to coming to camp.
  1. All other campers: Please administer a PCR test between today (June 6th) or Wednesday (June 8th). If that PCR test comes back positive, then please follow the next steps:
  • Isolate your camper for 5 days per CDC recommendations from the date of test administration, whether they are symptomatic or not.
  • Administer an at-home rapid antigen test on Saturday, June 11th or Sunday, June 12th, or on the sixth day after the original PCR test administration, whichever is LONGER.
    • If the at-home rapid antigen test is negative, please provide documentation (printed image, photo on phone) to the camper to bring with them to camp to show the nurses on Opening Day.
    • If the at-home rapid antigen test is positive, the camper will need to wait until 10 days after the original PCR test administration date and must be asymptomatic prior to coming to camp.

  1. If your camper has COVID symptoms or is sick on Opening Day, please do not send them to camp and contact us for further instructions.

  2. If your pre-camp PCR test comes back negative, please bring/send a direct copy of the official results with your camper on Opening Day.

We will welcome campers who need to arrive later than planned and we encourage everyone to get lots of rest, stay hydrated and avoid group gatherings or other exposure risks in this last week prior to camp.

If your camper’s PCR results are not available in time, there may be an option to receive a PCR prior to camp arrival in Woodland Park, CO. This service is available for an additional fee ($120 for rapid PCR) by calling Ryan Brown at 719-686-6666 or 719-651-9465 and scheduling an appointment. Appointments are exceptionally limited, so please do not plan to use this service to receive your pre-camp PCR testing, it is only available to campers whose results were delayed.

Thank you for your support and ongoing flexibility as we continue to navigate the rapidly changing COVID landscape. If you have additional questions regarding other COVID protocols and practices at camp, please refer to our previous emails or to our previous blog posts.

Thank you, Dr. Jeremy DeWall COEC/SWC Medical Director Mark Rutberg & Ariella Rogge Directors, Sanborn Western Camps

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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 teenage sons, Lairden and Karsten.