MY HISTORY AT MTYC

I have spent at least one week of every summer of my life (except one) at Mountain Top Youth Camp. It’s a Christian camp on the mountain beside Pilot Mountain in Pinnacle, NC. I transitioned from camper to staffer in 2010. In 2016, I started creating recap videos of each camp week to show on the last day.

I have loved doing this the last several years, getting to know the campers and staff each week, figuring out how to weave together my footage of the different activities in an interesting way, experimenting with different ideas I wouldn’t be able to try in most projects, and starting to outline the videos more and more with highlights of the preached messages.

2021 CHANGES

With the addition of a beautiful little girl to our family, it became clear that we would not be able to spend full summers up at camp indefinitely, so I had to start thinking of different options. I ended up taking several day trips up to camp throughout the summer in addition to attending the full Excel week (a camp week for adults; check it out for 2022; it’s amazing!) to get enough footage to create a full summer recap video. Adding in additional footage from Erin Littleton and Luke Springer to fill in the gaps, here’s how the 2021 Summer Recap Video ended up: