Unlike other camp consultants and professional staff trainers, Chris still works at camp and is therefore intimately familiar with how child development and camp intersect.
Chris visits between 20 and 30 camps between Memorial Day and the 4th of
July and then returns to his roots at Camp
Belknap in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Chris, his wife Simonida, and their two boys,
Dacha and Sava, live and work together at
Belknap for the last six or seven weeks of the camp season.
Chris began attending day camp at age 4 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He attended a sports camp in Portland for several summers before his best friend persuaded him to try overnight camp when he was 12. At age 14, Chris received "Senior Recognition" from the leadership at Camp Belknap and was asked to be a member of the Belknap Leaders' Corps the following summer. In subsequent seasons, Chris was invited back to be a Leader-in-Training, a Cabin Leader, an Assistant Division Head, and finally in 1989, a Division Head and the camp's Waterfront Director. Chris has been the Waterfront Director at Camp Belknap since that time and now shares that duty with several other highly qualified leaders.