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Getting started Birocapedia was made and is managed by a Birch Rock camper. Here are some things you can do if you are new here: Look up some of your favorite things at Birch Rock and maybe learn a little more about them. If you don't know what to look up, click the random page link to see a random article. Register an account by clicking the link in the top right. After that you can write and edit pages. Read some help pages to learn how to use this site. Write an article about something at Birch Rock like your favorite activity, your last cabin, or anything that you think merits an article. Look at the pages that have already been made and edit them. If you don't know what to write an article about, look at the list of wanted pages and write one of those.

News It is Sunday, April 28, 2024. The new Chief's Cabin is under construction. Pictures and updates of the progress can be viewed here. Over thirteen hundred images from the last 9 years have recently been uploaded. They can be viewed here. See the news page for past news. Featured article: Omar's Omar's cabin is located on the path that runs past the office and into Upper Camp. The building is currently used as a staff cabin, although this is just the most recent use of the building. In the 1980s and the early half of the 1990s, the building was known as the "Upper Shop." The upper shop held the power tools for the woodshop program and was used primarily by Donn Munn and the maintenance staff. By the late 1990s the woodshop program was not being offered as a regular activity. The building was used for tool and equipment storage and other assorted small projects such as working on the plaques. Read more Featured facts Another round of facts about the buildings of Birch Rock: Albert's Cabin has had two additions since its construction as the cabin for head cook Albert Bryant The new Brewster Lodge has a sleeping loft only accessible by ladder Cabin 5 has a secret compartment...somewhere...that has the names of many of the campers who inhabited the cabin Injun Joe's, named after the antagonist in Tom Sawyer, was moved further back from the lake in the early 2000s Eagle's Nest contains a road sign that many Eagle's Nest campers have signed The first group of CITs to occupy Pete's Palace were required to work its construction before they moved in In the '90s a white pine leaning dangerously towards Cabin 8 was cut down among speculation that the tree was trying to fall on Cabin 8 as revenge for being used as the "Pee Tree" by its inhabitants The Kennel used to be the lower wash house building (Thanks Thomas and Seth)

Featured picture The unusual outhouse on Saddleback Mountain