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Camp Grounded allows adults to survive the summer days at summer camp, but only after they pass all your digital devices.





If you miss the way you were going to summer camp, or have never had such an opportunity as a child, then Camp Grounded promises to give the adults have all the fun out of life at summer camp with no distractions of modern technology.
There is a face-art, but there is of Facebook. There is a post office box, but it's not email. Instead of user names, there is the "name of the camp." Status Updates are updating records on miniature "cool" boards, which are worn around the neck. The only permissible technology is digital camera historian camp.



Co-founder of Camp Felix Levy said that the purpose of the camp - is to give people a break from the daily "digital" interrupt their lives.
"We live in a world where the average person spends 8 to 12 hours" to the screen. " Our tourists spend an average of 13 hours of on-line reviews of the surrounding space, "said Felix. "So when you can come and just disconnect for a long period of time to play, create and explore, interact with other people, not because you do this for a living or not because it's your office, your colleagues, then create an incredible feeling. »
Camp Grounded surrounded Sequoia and is located in the valley of Anderson, Camp Navarro, Northern California. When visitors first arrive at the camp, enthusiastic counselors greeted them with applause and hugs. Tourists are offered homemade cookies with almond milk, and also a selection of nicknames. The camp has signs reminding visitors to those they left all their everyday technology and lived in the present. Tourists can even make the cut under the tree.



Even before the control desk, tourists pass a paper bag, which houses all of their electronics. Most campers bring their phones. Also take with them some of their tablets and laptops. Packages with the values ​​remain stored and locked in for the entire weekend. In case of emergency, the camp takes calls and emails and respond to them.
New member of the camp, who flew from Washington, DC, fought the urge to take a photo after it has sent its Galaxy Note 2 in a paper bag. "I hope I will not rip off his skin and look for it everywhere," she said. "I just really want to start living the moment, and not to live permanently in the desire to capture the moment and show everyone».
To vacationers could entertain without their technology, Camp Grounded offers workshops, trainings on all possible topics, ranging from yoga to archery, from the preparation of truffle to hip-hop dance and production of fire sticks. Also there exist traditional summer camp activities, such as "grasping the flag", swimming, and so on. D.



The cost is $ 570 fun, it includes living room, leisure and balanced, gourmet meals. The camp is now in its second year and increased from one to three seasons, each season populated 250 campers. Felix says that 40 percent of vacationers from last year back again. This year, he said, there are people flying with 32 states and 5 countries, in the age range of 19 to 81 years.
Resting, nicknamed the "love handles", who lives in San Francisco, is back for a second year. According to him, last year, after he returned from the camp, he became a better contact with other people. "When you live in San Francisco, you see people every day, and you can not interact with them. You do not recognize the people in the street, "he explained. "Everything changed when I got back. I was much more open and willing to talk to people, even those with whom accidentally met ".
Inspiration for a digital detox clinic came from a life-threatening situation. Felix said that several years ago he had worked so hard (he was vice president of engineering company in Los Angeles) that he did not understand what was sick. At that time, he had to go to the hospital and spend three days in the ICU after doctors discovered a "loophole" in his esophagus. Once the fear of his health, he decided to relax a bit and finally realized that other people would like to get the recharge time. And, of course, when Felix says about recharging, he has in mind the battery. "My goal for vacationers coming to the camp, leaving them feeling charged, to make them feel a new sense of self, a sense of new meaning."



Camp Grounded definitely seeks to solve the world's problems taking us to a "simple" times. Founders do not hate technology and do not ask people to stop them forever. This is a digital detox in the end, not the digital rehabilitation. And, clearly, that shortly after his return, vacationers connect with new friends from camp on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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