The Wayfinder Experience and the High Meadow School are happy to announce a one day event on Saturday March 29, 2008. We will be playing with swords and magic at the lovely High Meadow School in lovely Stone Ridge.
This event is for High Meadow School students ages 9 and up as well as participants 9 years of age and older who have previously attended a Wayfinder event. High Meadow School participants should contact the Wayfinder Experience for pricing information. All participants should bring a bagged lunch as well as forms and payment. You can find more information at www.wayfinderexperience.com/register and by calling us at 845-340-9880.
We hope to see you there!

When: March 29th
Where: High Meadow School in Stone Ridge, NY
How Much: $50
Drop-off: 10AM on Saturday March 29th
Pick-up: 6PM on Saturday March 29th

Thankfully, our online registration system is back up and ready to go! Register soon to take advantage of our great discount schedule!

In addition, applications for summer employment are now available on our website at www.wayfinderexperience.com/php/kid/staff.php. Make sure you read the application instructions before applying.

For questions or concerns, we can be found at 845-340-9880 or by email at info@wayfinderexperience.com.

Sincerely,
The Wayfinder Experience

We are experiencing some technical difficulties with our online registration system. We are working very hard to resolve this issue as soon as possible. If you are interested in registering for a camp, please give us a call and we'll take care of you over the phone.

(845) 340 - 9880 or 1-877-WAYFINDER

We apologize for the inconvenience, and we'll have the site up and running as soon as we can!

Sincerely,
The Wayfinder Experience

We are so excited to announce a 50's Sock Hop themed Valentine's Dance! Grab your friends or that special someone and come dance with us at Gina Marie's in Rosendale, NY. Gina Marie's is a ice cream parlor that will be a great setting for this event.

If you are interested in renting poodle skirts and shirts, give us a call. 845-340-9880.

What: Valentine's Day Sock Hop
Where: Gina Marie's in Rosendale, NY
When: Friday February 15, 7- 10PM
Cost: $10

Hope to see you there!

We are so very pleased to announce our Summer 2008 Schedule.

I encourage everyone to go to the registration page or event schedule and see what we have to offer this year. Those on our mailing list will receive a paper registration form sometime this week.

Feel free to give us a call or email for information!

Happy scheduling!

-Vicki

We at the Wayfinder Experience hope that you are enjoying 2008! We think that this is going to be a great year and we look forward to having many great adventures with you.

We have opened registration for our Spring Game at Camp Epworth. Make sure not to miss this event, which is always a memorable good time. You can find more details at www.wayfinderexperience.com/register.

We will be announcing our 2008 summer season this week. Stay tuned for more info!

Best regards,
Vicki

We are continuously expanding our Capture the Flag in Philadelphia, PA. We are pleased to offer the following days and times:

Thursday: Starr Garden @ 6th and Lombard, 3- 5PM
Saturday: Clark Park @ 43rd and Baltimore, 1- 4PM
Sunday: Allen's Lane Art Center @ Allen's Lane and McCallum, 1- 4PM

A $5 donation is suggested. For more information or to get on the Philly email list, please contact philly@wayfinderexperience.com.

Hope to see you there!

We will meet some Autumn Flower Fairies and celebrate this lovely season with a story and a craft. You can sign up at the Kingston Library or show up on Saturday November 3 at 10:30AM. This program is great for small Wayfinders!

The Wayfinder Experience and the High Meadow School are happy to announce a special one day event on Saturday November 10, 2007. We will be playing with swords and magic at the lovely High Meadow School in lovely Stone Ridge.
This event is for High Meadow School students ages 9 and up as well as participants 9 years of age and older who have previously attended a Wayfinder event. High Meadow School participants should contact the Wayfinder Experience for pricing information. All participants should bring a bagged lunch as well as forms and payment. You can find more information at www.wayfinderexperience.com/register and by calling us at 845-340-9880.
We hope to see you there!

When: November 10th
Where: High Meadow School in Stone Ridge, NY
How Much: $50
Drop-off: 10AM on Saturday November 10th
Pick-up: 6PM on Saturday November 10th

Join us for the most anticipated event of the offseason. Winter Game will occur December 26- 28 at the Ashokan Field Campus. For more information and to register, please go to www.wayfinderexperience.com/register or call us at 845-340-9880.

And for your enjoyment, the teaser for "The Doctor's Dilemma" by Molly Ostertag:

It was midnight in the Hospital of the Chalice. Clean white curtains sectioned off each patients’ bed, some of them lit from within depending on the restlessness of the inhabitant. An owl hooted softly outside the window and took off on white wings, coasting over the forest and the pebbly beach.
Dr. Lania Moldowsky, reclusive and talented head of the Hospital, walked slowly past the curtained beds. She held a list of the Hospital’s current patients in her hand and read it as she walked, aided by a small witchlight that bobbed along at shoulder height.
Anya Cygnus, 19. Traumatized by the death of her dark twin, her notes read. Did she kill him? That would make everything more complicated. Doctor: Nicholas Cloud.
Anya Cygnus tossed and turned in her bed, caught in the grips of a nightmare. As the doctor passed, her movements ceased and she sunk into deeper, untroubled sleep.
Pye Quickfingers, 18. Victim of an amulet apparently imbued with a curse of invisibility. The girl came by it illegally, one must presume. Doctor: Reverend Errol Worthy.
Pye Quickfingers’ bed appeared empty, but that was no great surprise.
Jenna Redtree, 11, and Aram Cooper, 12. Students at the Twinbrook Institute - read from a Book that filled them with the power of a god...which god? There was a third child who died. Doctor: Talia Giedwin.
Jenna Redtree and Aram Cooper slept in twin beds next to each other. Placed between them was an old, decaying tome bound in broken chains. The children and the book seemed to all be breathing with the same rhythm, the book’s moldy pages fluttering almost imperceptibly. Dr. Moldowsky gave them a troubled look, and crossed to the door of her office.
“The children have something to do with it, don’t they?” she said into the room. It was ornamented with a simple desk, a remarkably complex filing system, and a three foot tall chalice bubbling over with watery light. In the presence of the chalice, everything else seemed slightly unreal - easy to look over, then, the comatose body lying in a bed next to it. Copper wire connected the body to the Chalice, but with no apparent effect.
“The children, and their Book,” said the body, moving only its lips. “I warned you a fortnight ago, Lania, and I’ll warn you again. Something is coming.”
Events were indeed waiting to unfold, at the Hospital of the Chalice. Known far and wide across Ayewards as a hospital for those with magical ailments, it was a place where strange occurrences were common, and the staff used to dealing with them. Whatever storm was coming...they would weather it.

Fall Game was an awesome way to start the fall season!

Look for our email update later this month. We will be announcing some upcoming events, including a one day event and our annual Winter Game. To be added to our newsletter list, email us at info@wayfinderexperience.com.

We are always available for your birthday parties and bar mitzvahs, and we would love to do programming in your school or organization. Give us a call anytime at 845-340-9880!

Best regards,

Victoria Howland
The Wayfinder Experience

Come watch the leaves change with your Wayfinder community as we play in the fading light of Autumn. Fall game is always something new, and this year is no exception.

When: October 5th - 7th
Where: Camp Epworth

Drop-off/Pick-up: 5pm on Friday, October 5th / 3pm on Sunday, October 7th
Cost: $285
Game: The Family Twist - by Brennan and Moo
“Stand still, you little troll!”
“Gods, you’re a bad shot! And don't forget, Sis, our cousin IS a troll.”
Arrows flew through the air like a swarm of angry hornets. Priceless paintings of noble lords, ancient tapestries of battles between dragons and phoenixes, marble busts of unicorns and knights all shattered and broke under the storm of ranged weaponry. The vaulted ceilings, towering bay windows and cavernous passageways of Castle Twist rang with shouted curses and the flashing screeches of magic.
Alanna Twist, her leather armor strapped tightly to her muscled form, ran across the ruby-studded floor of the Grand Hall, her longbow grasped in her gauntleted hand. Arrows flew from her bow faster than the beating of a wasp’s wing, as her brother, Drake Twist, appeared and reappeared at will, his tongue poking out of his mouth, his chiseled features twisted in a mocking grin. Drake’s longcoat and jerkin were torn by all the near-misses of his sister’s arrows. Of course, most of this was impossible to see, as he kept discorporating into black, smoky whirlwinds, teleporting all over the room, dodging arrows.
Drake appeared crouched on a dragon skull, suspended from chains to the ceiling far above. Alanna let loose another volley, and Drake appeared behind Alanna, tapping her on the shoulder, giggling.
Alanna turned around, swinging a fist, and was met only by smoke and laughter.
“I’m going to kill you!” cried Alanna.
“Not very polite of you. But then again, it’s to be expected; when you spend more time in the company of horses than most stablehands you’re bound to develop some social problems.”
Drake ran along the walls, disappearing at random intervals, as arrows whipped behind him, shattering windows and cracking stone.
“At least horses don’t prance around the Castle fawning on idiot sorcerers, talking about balls and masquerades until they’re blue in the face!”
Drake appeared now at the beginning of a small, red passageway, leading to the dungeons. “If you’re referring to the Princess Sylvia, I’ll have you know she’s a great conversationalist.”
“You do much talking then?”
Drake smiled roguishly, “Not so much, no. If what we do in private interests you, however, I suggest you start wearing dresses, and bathing more frequently. Maybe you’ll have your first kiss before your nineteenth year.”
“I’ve kissed more people than you have!”
Drake arched an eyebrow. “Not counting horses?”
Alanna howled, and fired five arrows in one draw of her bowstring. Drake twirled and disappeared, laughing… and the five arrows slammed into the broad chest of the Lord of the Castle, Tiernan Twist.
Alanna dropped her bow to her side, her mouth agape. Drake swung from a chandelier, his eyes wide, and he gave a low whistle. “Oooooohhh… you’re in troooooubbbllee!!!!”
Tiernan Twist was a grizzled old man. He wore a suit of black, spiked armor with skulls set into the knee plates. A dark red cape swirled behind him, a greatsword strapped to his back. His face was scarred, his cheeks gaunt, as though he had spent a great deal of time in the company of some very foul creatures. The Black Knight, Alanna and Drake’s father, reached up to one of the five arrows embedded through his armor and into his chest, and ripped out one, examining it with some confusion.
“You’ve shot me… why have you done this?”
“Father, I’m so sorry! Drake was being…”
“I do not care what Drake was doing… I need a smith to repair my armor… and a cleric. Yes, I believe some healing is in order.”
Blood dripped off the arrow, and Tiernan scowled, and marched across the room.
“Let us only pray your mother does not find out. She’s in enough of a state as it is.”
“So I’m not in trouble?”
“Good gods, no. Wouldn’t be fair--your brother Emmet broke my skull when he was four and we only sent him to bed early. Didn’t let him have extra biscuits at dinner, you see. S’when we first realized he’d become a berserker. Hell, the first time I met your mother, I was trying to kill her. Luckily for the both of us, she was quicker than me.”
As Tiernan continued to march, dripping blood on the floor, Alanna followed him, and Drake appeared next to her, walking as well. The two of them glared at one another, a silent promise to continue this later.
“What’s mom all worked up about?” asked Drake, as the trio began to ascend a spiral staircase in the western tower.
“Family meeting. At the Summer Cottage. The whole world’s in an uproar again.”
“Why?” asked Alanna.
“The whole Autumn business. Next week it’ll be time for the Thaw, and the leaves still haven’t fallen from the trees.”
“Any idea what the cause is?” inquired Drake.
“Hell if I know. Everyone’s invited to help think of an answer though. Uncle Joseph is coming, of course. He’s furious, as usual. Jack’s going to be there, Klein and his new wife. Even Olivia’s on her way.”
“I thought she was trapped in a dimension of shadows forever?” asked Alanna
“Nope. Not anymore.”
“How’d she get it out?”
Tiernan shrugged. “Magic, I suppose.”
“Right.” Said Drake.
“Regardless, Emmett’s bringing the Triplets. Their first adventure was about a year ago. The Winter King was trying to take over the world again, and they went to drive him back North.”
“Do you think the Triplets are responsible?”
“They’re Twists. Even if they didn’t do anything wrong, odds are they’re to blame. This family can’t seem to get out of bed without putting the world in harm’s way.”
“Luckily, we’re always around to save it,” quipped Drake.
The father and his two youngest children reached the top of the stairs, and opened a door emblazoned with a sword and staff, twisting around one another. A crest of a family that for generations had protected the world.
The greatest family of adventurers and legends to have ever lived. And once again, it seem, they would need to gather. Paladins and Witches, Sorcerers and Bards, Archers and Thieves, all bound by the blood of the Family Twist; the most epically dysfunctional family of all time.

Wayfinder in the Big Apple! Come join us for our first-ever NYC Bootleg, a day full of swords, improvisational theatre, and fantasy adventure. Join the growing NYC WFE community!

When: June 9th, 10am – 5pm
Where: 106th and Central Park West
Cost: $50
Age: 8 and up

TO REGISTER: www.wayfinderexperience.com/register/

Hello Wayfinders!

The Summer 2007 Schedule has been finalized and is now available for viewing on our brand new website. Be a part of what is sure to be our biggest summer ever! Remember, if you pay early you can save up to 15% on your registration. Sign up for one of our many day and overnight programs running from Upstate New York down to Philadelphia. They’re all back: 12-Day Advanced, Intro I & II, Woodstock Day School, Unison, New Moon, Specialty Camp, Finale and more.

Click here to go directly to our program catalog. - Register

Click here to view our summer schedule. – Summer 2007

If you are reading this, chances are that you are on our hard-mail list. You will be receiving a copy of the summer schedule complete with a registration form, liability waiver, health form (doctor’s signature required this year) and camper agreement. If you have not received these forms by the end of the month, simply give us a ring or submit your information here to be added to our mailing list.

Remember, sign up and pay early to save! If you have any questions, concerns or queries, don’t hesitate to contact us. We are overwhelmingly excited to see you all this summer…and thanks again for all the support and love you have given to our growing community.

Sincerely,

Ike Shaw
The Wayfinder Experience

We know you've been eagerly anticipating our summer schedule ... and it's ready to go.
New Schedule!
Some changes from last year to make note of:

The camps running at The Epworth Center will be catered [most likely by The Blue Mountain Bistro]-- you asked, and we answered ... i'm really excited for the new meal plan.

There will be a 12-Day Advanced camp, followed by a 7-Day Specialty camp, but no 7-Day Community camp. During that 2nd week in August, the only overnight programming we're running will be the Omega Family Week program ... and if you want to attend that, you should call them literally right now, as is usually sells out within the first 20 minutes of opening. [The number is 845.266.4444 .... and tell them that we're so cool, they should have us run all of their teen programming]

There will be a Community Weekend in between 12-Day Advanced and 7-Day Specialty camp

The discount schedule has changed-- this is the new schedule:
Pay in full by February 28th, recieve 10% off your total.
Pay in full by March 31st, recieve 5% off of your total.
Pay in full with a check before April 30th, recieve an additional 5% off.
Siblings recieve 10% discount for attending the same program.

The people have asked, and Wayfinder has listened- we have a completely new website.
Peruse it fully, and you'll find all of the information you'd ever want [about The Wayfinder Experience].

This is the first piece of news on the updates page, please check back often.

We'll have the Summer 2007 Schedule up on or around January 1st.

Sincerely,
The Wayfinder Experience Website Team
- a fancy way to say 'Ike and Reed'

PS: To download camp forms, please click 'Register' and then click 'Download Forms' the right side of the screen.