From left to right; Camp Director Amber Hullum, Program Counselor Carlos M. Huertas, and Program Counselor Andrew Schalk prepare to walk to the French Henry campfire site for their closing show on Thursday, June 17th, 2021.
French Henry staff walk to the campfire to do their closing show on Thursday, June 17th, 2021.
French Henry staff dance during their closing show at the Aztec Ponil mine on Thursday, June 17th, 2021.
French Henry staff pose during their closing campfire show at the Aztez Ponil mine on Thursday, June 17th, 2021.
Crew 609-EE-1 and EE-2 line up at the French Henry closing campfire show at the Aztec Ponil Mine on Thursday, June 17th, 2021. French Henry preforms interactive stories with scouts, in which they get to choose differing story paths as a miner in the 1800s.
French Henry staff preform a song during their closing campfire show at the Aztec Ponil Mine on Thursday, June 17th, 2021. The Aztec Ponil Mine has a rich and mysterious history of mining tales and tragedies that the French Henry staff tell through song.
French Henry staff gesture during a story at their closing campfire show at the Aztec Ponil Mine on thursday, June 17th, 2021.
The South Ponil Creek at French Henry on Friday, June 18th, 2021.
Camp Director of French Henry, Amber Hullum, crosses the South Ponil Creek early in the morning on Friday, June 18th, 2021.
A humming bird lands at French Henry's humming bird feeding station on Friday, June 18th, 2021.
Sydney Marie Bascomb cranks the squirrel cage on Friday, June 18th, 2021. The squirrel cage was the modern version of the bellows in the early 1900s, and does the same thing as a bellows would - feed the embers oxygen.
Andrew "Smithy" Schalk winds the squirrel cage to feed the forging fire oxygen on Friday, June 18th, 2021. The squirrel cage was the replacement for the bellows in the early 1900s, using mechanical gears to blow air rather than extra human power.
Smoke from the blacksmith rises into the air at the French Henry Forge on Friday, June 18th, 2021.
Evan Gregory of Crew 609-EE-1 grabs a blacksmithing apron before entering the French Henry Forge on Friday, June 18th, 2021.