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WHAT
TO BRING TO CAMP
- 1 sport shirt
- 8 pair underwear
- 8 T-shirts*
- 2 pair tennis shoes
- 1 pair leather shoes with heels or boots for horseback
- 1 pair flip-flops, "tevas" or "aqua socks" to wear to swimming
desirable
- 1 woolen sweater or jacket
- 12 pair socks, white preferred
- 2 cotton sweat shirts*
- 6 play shorts – any color
- 1 pair long pants for dance (optional)
- 2 pair long pants or blue jeans for riding or hiking
- 4 sheets for single bed
- 2 pillow cases
- 1 pillow
- 2 blankets
- 8 medium bath towels
- 2 bathing shorts
- raincoat
- flashlight
- canteen
- 2 laundry bags*
OPTIONAL ARTICLES
Tennis racquet, baseball glove, camera, sleeping bag, musical
instrument
*Camp Laney T-shirts, sweats, laundry bags and caps may be
purchased at the camp.
We suggest you leave watches and jewelry
at home. These articles are easily lost or misplaced and you
really have no need for them while at camp.
*Please do not bring any pets to Camp Laney.
Camp
Communications
Outgoing and incoming mail is
delivered daily. Address: P.O. Box 289, Mentone, Alabama
35984. Telephone calls may be made through Rob Hammond,
Director, Camp Laney, Mentone, Alabama. Telephone 256-634-4066
or 256-634-4067. Please limit your calls concerning travel,
information, transportation, or administrative matters to the hours
of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. After these hours, emergency calls
only. Boys are not permitted to make calls.
Marking and Packing
Uniforms are NOT required at Camp
Laney. Campers should be equipped with serviceable but
inexpensive clothing. Old clothes are great for camp.
Every article of clothing, including socks, must be marked with name
tapes or plainly where it will not be erased by the laundry.
No article will be sent to the laundry unless it is plainly
marked. A list of articles brought to
camp should be pasted at the top of footlocker. Articles left
at camp with names on them will be mailed to campers. Those
left without names will be disposed of two weeks after camp is
closed.
Laundry
Laundry
will be sent out once during the two-week sessions. It will
not be sent out during the one-week sessions. It usually takes
laundry about three days to return. Send what you think your
child will need for the period of time he stays.
Directions to Camp Laney
FROM ATLANTA
Camp Laney is
less than 2 hours from Atlanta. Take I-75 north to Adairsville exit
#306. Exit left on Georgia 140 to the intersection at US 27 north.
Turn right and follow US 27 to Summerville, Georgia. In Summerville
turn left on Georgia 48 west and follow it through Menlo, Georgia
up Lookout Mountain. At the state line Georgia 48 becomes Alabama
117. Follow 117 straight into Mentone, you will pass Camp Skyline
on the right and then cross the Little River. Take the first left
after crossing Little River onto West River Road (Little River Hardware
Store is on the right) and follow the signs.
FROM BIRMINGHAM
Camp Laney is
less than 2 hours from Birmingham. Take I-59 north to the Valley
Head/Mentone exit #231 and turn right onto Alabama 117. Follow 117
through Hammondville and Valley Head up Lookout Mountain to Mentone.
After reaching the top of the mountain go approx. 1 mile and look
for a right turn onto West River Road (Little River Hardware Store
is on the left) and follow the signs.
FROM CHATTANOOGA
Camp Laney is
less than 1 hour from Chattanooga. Take I-59 south to the Valley
Head/Mentone exit #231 and turn left onto Alabama 117. Follow 117
through Hammondville and Valley Head up Lookout Mountain to Mentone.
After reaching the top of the mountain go approx. 1 mile and look
for a right turn onto West River Road (Little River Hardware Store
is on the left) and follow the signs.
FROM HUNTSVILLE
Take US-72 east
to Scottsboro, take AL-35 east to Fort Payne and get on I-59 north
to Valley Head/Mentone exit #231 and turn right onto AL-117. Follow
117 through Hammondville and Valley Head up Lookout Mountain to
Mentone. After reaching the top of the mountain go approx. 1 mile
and look for a right turn onto West River Road (Little River Hardware
Store is on the left) and follow the signs.
OUR PHONE
NUMBER IS: 256-634-4066
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