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Published on Friday, July 18, 2008
By Brandon Lowrey
Imagine a summer camp where the kids don't pick blackberries; they type on BlackBerrys.
Where they spend more time sending text messages than pitching tents. And where they block out all that racket from the crickets, coyotes and owls with the latest Jonas Brothers hit.
Camp directors say high-tech gadgets have not yet turned the great outdoors adventure into just another weeklong textathon.
But they fear it could.
And they're asking parents and kids to respect the unwritten ground rules of America's traditional coming-of-age summer experience.
"Everybody's got an iPod coming in," said Kenny Lund, a camp director for the YMCA's Camp Fox on Catalina Island.
"Let's go for a hike, not go answer e-mails on our CrackBerry," he tries to advise the young campgoers.
Most camps and parents discourage children from bringing along their cell phones and music players. First, they say, it takes away that feeling of freedom and independence most summer camps aim to foster
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