Summer camp registration is now open!
If the camp you want is full when you register, be sure to get on the waitlist—there’s no charge and no obligation! If a spot opens up, we’ll contact you and you’ll have 24 hours to let us know if you’d like to take it.
Ages: 12–17
August 4–8, 2025: Monday–Wednesday, 9:00 am–3:00 pm, plus Thursday overnight (drop-off at 9:00 am Thursday; pickup Friday at 3:00 pm)
Location: The Abode of the Message, New Lebanon, NY
Tuition: $690 — payment plan available; first installment is one-third of full tuition.
Please read our revised cancellation policy before registering.
If you are applying for financial assistance, register here.
Crow Call gives campers an authentic taste of a forest survival experience—its many joys and challenges. Teamed up with your survival group, you will spend Monday through Wednesday getting familiar with each other’s strengths, setting personal and group learning goals, gaining skills from Crow Call staff (and hearing their hilarious survival stories), and transforming the land’s generous gifts into survival items, which you’ll use with your group during your Thursday-to-Friday overnight survival challenge. These skills and items may include:
Shelter: Tarping and knots; making a fully primitive shelter
Water: Gathering, transporting, and purifying water
Wild Edibles: Identifying, harvesting, processing, and cooking
Camp Craft: Making pine bark bowls, “bamboo” canteens, and more
Trapping and Fishing
A note to new Crow Call campers: Group survival challenges are truly awesome experiences. Special moments with the land can open a window to understanding the earth in deep ways; the risks you take can reveal gifts and capabilities within you; and working and laughing alongside others can create lifelong friendship bonds.
Crow Call is designed for teens who are ready and excited to spend each day in extended, focused skills work. This camp is recommended for those with previous nature camp experience, as well as an openness to encountering mentally and physically challenging aspects of wilderness survival.
A note to returning campers: For campers who have previously attended Crow Call camp, staff will design a next-level challenge.
View and download the Summer Camp Welcome Letter with supplies list, schedule, and more.
Crow Call is not regulated or inspected by the New York State Department of Health and is not required to have a Department of Health permit. This camp is not required to follow Department of Health regulations, including checking the state sex offender registry prior to hiring staff; maintaining minimum staff-to-child ratios; hiring medical personnel; or reporting injuries or illnesses to the Department of Health.
Nevertheless, Flying Deer is dedicated to maintaining the same safety standards that we do in summer camp weeks that are subject to Department of Health regulation.