Hey, all of you O2 Cool Camp Fans!

There’s really no way around it; you’re going to get hot during your summer camp stay. If you’re looking for a fun, easy way to stay cool this summer, then you’re in luck. You can find a great number of easy and breezy fans at Everything Summer Camp!

However, none of them are quite so cool as these fans from O2 Cool: the Funky Flexi Fan, the Squeeze Breeze Water Misting Fan, and the 5” Desktop Fan.

First, you’ll want to check out the Funky Flexi Fan. Bend, turn, snake, or loop it to get the perfect fanning angle you need to stay cool from this truly funky and flexible fan. It’s small, portable, and more than safe with its funky foam blades. Use in the car, at the beach, or on your bunk at night, your funky friend will be convenient to clip on something in your surroundings. Batteries are included in our Funky Flexi Fan.

Next up is the Squeeze Breeze. Give this handheld, Water Misting Fan a squeeze for a refreshing blast of cool, cool H2O! Adding a splash to an enjoyable summer breeze will really keep you comfortable on those summer camp scorchers. Just squeeze to mist yourself or give your camp buddies a playful squirt. Batteries included.

If you’re looking for something a little more traditional, the 5” Desktop Fan will keep a streaming airflow in your cabin or tent when you need to keep cool on a hot camp night. The O2 Cool Desktop Fan is a wonderful companion that’ll sit on just about any horizontal surface. Set your fan on a desk, a chair, or even on the ground. 55 hours of battery life are included in these handy fans.

Enjoy the breeze, summer campers! Until next time.

Hey, Blog Buddies!

Today I’d like to tell you about a guy who mostly remains behind the scenes. But, boy is he essential to Everything Summer Camp running smoothly on a day-to-day basis—he’s our Operations Manager, Brian. Operations Manager is his technical title, but really he gets his hands in everything.

Brian oversees every single order that you, our customer, place. From the time your order comes into our system, to the time we ship it out the door, Brian is guiding it the whole way.

As our Operations Manager, he oversees our Camp Trunk Production, our Graphics Department, the Call Center, and the Shipping Department. Aside from that, Brian also handles all of Everything Summer Camp’s general office paperwork, paying the company bills, doing payroll, and so on.

It’s a lot to handle. But then, that’s also his favorite part about his job. He thrives on the diversity that his job hands him. He’s been working here for the last eight years in which his job has changed a lot. Not that his position changed so much as it just continues to evolve. From paying the bills to developing production procedures, Brian’s job always offers him diversity.

Aside from what his position entails, Brian is also the IT guy around here. Since he’s probably the only one at Everything Summer Camp who can set up a closed-circuit network between two locations, he’s our IT guy by default. You can tell just by looking around his office that he knows computers; he’s got wires coming out of the ceiling and computer chips sitting out in a shoebox.

Brian has no doubt that an old job of his at a sporting goods store gave him a good background in sales and office management that has helped him a long way in his current position.

“I love my job,” says Brian.

Until next time, Campers.

- John

Hey, Camp Enthusiasts!

For today’s blog post I want to tell you about a very courageous company with whom Everything Summer Camp is more than happy to be working—and that company is CamelBak. What’s so brave about CamelBak? Just keep reading to discover the history that led to the success of this great company.

One might think that in our modern times, a company has next to no chance of success when it’s based on one of the most basic of human needs such as thirst. But thanks to a bicyclist named Michael Eidson and the Hotter ‘N Hell 100 biking competition that he raced in in 1988, he brought a semi-simple, yet brilliant idea to the hands of many.

The Hotter ‘N Hell 100 is indeed a hundred mile road race in the scorcher southern summer of Witchita Falls, Texas. To make it through this race, you’ve got to have water! And there are only a few different opportunities along the way to refill your water bottle.

Michael Eidson had enough forethought to fill up an IV bag with his drinking water which he then slipped into a tube sock. He then stuffed this apparatus in the back of his racing jersey. He put the thin IV tube over his shoulder and clamped it with a clothespin.

Pretty smart, huh?

Well, he didn’t look too cool and got laughed at by the other racers. But they all had to fumble around with their water bottles during the race. And more importantly, Michael Eidson had made hands-free hydration a simple possibility.

Once CamelBak developed the hydration pack, another competitive cyclist named Jeff Wemmer was so impressed with Michael Eidson’s product that he started bringing packs along with him to races so he could sell them to other cyclists. Eventually CamelBak hired Jeff and then, in 1993, sent him off on a road trip visiting every bike shop from Florida to California.

They were tough times for the company and for a while, every day, Jeff was bringing in just enough profit to continue opening CamelBak’s doors the next day.

It’s simply amazing to have turned an IV bag in a tube sock into quality hydration packs, but to then turn that into a successful company—that’s awesome. We’re proud at Everything Summer Camp to work alongside a company like CamelBak.

Thanks for reading, Camp Fans! Until next time.

- John

Hey, Water Fans!

Get informative tips about the importance of keeping hydrated as you go about your highly active and scorching hot camp days. Learn the tell-tale signs of severe dehydration that our bodies put out to warn ourselves when we’re at dangerously low hydration levels. Read the straight facts about how water fuels our bodies and come across interesting information and helpful tips for keeping water on your person at summer camp. This post from the Everything Summer Camp company writer has been removed from our Blog site and moved to our main site’s Camp 101 feature. Click here to read this helpful Blog post.

Hey there, Summer Camp Enthusiasts!

Every camper needs a trusty water bottle to bring along with them for a summer camp stay, right? Well, you’ll be glad to see that at Everything Summer Camp, we have a vast assortment of great water bottles and water bottle alternatives for your hydrating convenience this summer.

For today’s blog post I want to tell you about the All Clear water bottle from CamelBak. This BPA Free Plastic CamelBak Water Bottle belongs at summer camp because it’s so convenient in the outdoors thanks to its resourceful design.

See, when CamelBak created the All Clear, they gave it proven UV technology that effectively neutralizes any potential microbiological contaminants in your water to meet EPA standards. CamelBak also gave the All Clear a built-in LCD that will give you confirmation that your water has been purified. It will only take one minute!

Whether you’re pouring yourself tap water, filling it with pond water, or just holding it out in a downpour, your All Clear will have it turned into safe drinking water in sixty seconds! Now you can stay hydrated when you’re out there in the wilderness! All you need is a natural water source.

The CamelBak All Clear Water Bottle holds .75 L. You’ll have all the water you need when this thing is full. And when you run out, just wait until you pass another water source, and you can fill up all over again. The CamelBak All Clear lets you stay hydrated on the go and on the spot!

You can also make yourself a cup of hot chocolate because the CamelBak can handle anything from ice-cold to boiling-hot water. Heavy-duty and BPA-Free, it’s easy to see—this bottle was made for camp.

That’s all for today, Summer Camp Fans! Stay hydrated and drink up!