2026 Teen Paddle Day 1- Six Seven

Follow along with our trip down the Patuxent

We'll be posting photos and stories from our adventures at Jug Bay as often as we can. Please feel free to add your comments and stories from the week below!

Disclaimer -- it's a Teen Paddle tradition to tell the story of our week through a creative writing lens. These blogs reflect the paddlers' uniqueness, creativity, and fondness for "Mafia," a sneaky camp storytelling game where people "die," doctor's "heal," and paddlers have to try to solve a crime through creative storytelling. No one REALLY died, nor would any paddlers want the others "dead." (A few of the paddlers worried about what their parents might think when they read the blog -- and to be honest -- so did the adult facilitators).

2026 Teen Paddle Day 1- Six Seven

8/11/2026

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Today we began our long and arduous journey on the great and mighty Patuxent River. To begin the venture, we created treasure maps and asked our fellow pirates to finish them. This familiarized ourselves with each other before we embarked on a land journey on our metal steeds to the mountain called Calvert. We took a well earned rest in the cooling springs, blissfully unaware of the harsh weather to come. The mighty currents swayed our ships as we sailed and we were forced to perform rescues of those of us who were thrown overboard by the great gales. We returned to shore, exhausted, and had to heave our sailboats onto the slow metal steed. The clouds rolled in soon after and a terrible storm began; we found shelter as soon as we could. It seems our original plans are no longer possible and we set up a hurried shelter. Even now, in the dank cellar, with only the light of a kerosene lamp illuminating the parchment this letter is on, we await the next day without patience, eager to continue the hunt for our treasure.

-Authored by Luke, Calla, and Demi

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Follow along with our trip down the Patuxent