September Update

by Ariella Rogge on September 01

It is hard to believe that the Aspen trees are beginning to lighten and whole groves are getting more and more golden leaves with each passing day. And, with the changing of the seasons, we are going to make a change this fall, too!

We are trying something new this year: a (mostly) fall focused 2026 Sanborn Road Show. We will be heading to Northwest Arkansas and Tulsa in early October (10/6=Tulsa, 10/7=Bentonville, 10/8=Fayetteville) and then Chicago (10/21), St. Louis (10/22) and Kansas City (10/24). Our Denver (11/5) and Louisville, CO (11/6) shows will be the first week of November and then we will have a series of Texas shows in January (dates TBD).

These shows are an opportunity for current and prospective campers, their families, staff and alums to come together to meet some of the camp leadership and to learn more about a Sanborn Summer. Whether you are a brand new camper or a 6 year camper or you haven’t been a camper for 25 years–we love having everyone join us for this hour long presentation and reconnect. We will be updating the website over the next few weeks as we finalize details. If you aren’t in any of those locations…fear not! We will also host a number of virtual Road Shows in January, too.

In addition to the Road Show news, we wanted to let our camp families and Big Spring campers know that Will Coleman has officially transitioned from his Big Spring Associate Director role into the Big Spring Director role. As a former camper and long-time staff member, he is looking forward to bringing consistency and longevity to the Director position at Big Spring and is also looking forward to a lot more Junior river trips and a few more mountain climbs next summer. Congratulations, Will!

We hope everyone’s school year is off to a good start–we are hosting school groups with our High Trails Outdoor Education Center program now–and it makes us miss all of the summer campers even more.

Enjoy the fall and we hope to see you at one of our fall or winter in-person Road Shows or on one of our online Zoom events!

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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 sons, Lairden and Karsten.