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CTO Announces Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Summer Camps Program

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Cross Trail Outfitters today announced it is expanding its popular summer camps program this year. CTO is a non-profit, non-denominational Christian youth hunting and fishing club that has full-time club units is seven communities across Texas and Louisiana.

Since originating the Christian youth hunting and fishing summer camps concept with a single session seven years ago, CTO founder and Chief Outfitter Mike Arnold has seen the program grow to draw campers from more than a dozen states across America, and inspire a number of imitators as well.

At CTO summer camps, boys ages 10-16 enjoy a full week of hunting and fishing on top-notch game ranches. Each camper has the opportunity to harvest a big game animal while learning all kinds of hunting and fishing tools and tactics. “Our emphasis is on maximizing fun, hands-on experiences for the campers. The best way for a kid to learn is by doing, with the help of experienced and caring mentors. We avoid classroom lectures and workbook curriculums like the plague. Kids who come to CTO camps say they learn more than they ever imagined, all while having the most fun they’ve ever had in their lives,” said Arnold.

CTO’s local clubs are anchored by full-time staff members called Outfitters. CTO Outfitters work year-round with volunteers and landowners to introduce kids to the hunting and fishing heritage. It is this base of permanent staff that has allowed CTO to expand the program this year to keep up with demand.
   
“We keep our camp sessions very small on purpose,” said Arnold. “At a maximum, we’ll have 14 campers at any one time. This keeps our adult-to-camper ratio low, and our quality as high as possible. The thing is, there are only so many sessions you can fit in a summer on a given ranch. Thankfully, we have incredible permanent staff leaders in locations across Texas and into Louisiana, so we are able to do camps simultaneously now at two different ranches in different parts of the state.”

Arnold said the group’s Central Texas Outfitters will run one set of sessions at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country, while the East Texas team simultaneously runs the other sessions on a ranch in the East Texas Piney Woods.“Each of our camp directors not only has extensive year-round experience working with kids in the outdoors, and top-of-the-line training, but also has worked multiple years now at our CTO Summer Camps. Both our teams are the very best, and the camps they run will be the very best, too,” said Arnold.

Arnold expects the sessions to fill up quickly, and encourages anyone interested in signing up for their camps to contact the CTO Central Office as soon as possible. Tuition for all CTO camp sessions is $950, and includes all meals, lodging, gear and harvesting of a big game animal. The group offers need-based scholarships and fundraising opportunities, so that they’ve “never had to turn a kid away from camp just because he thought he couldn’t afford it,” Arnold said. For more information log in to www.TeamCTO.org/camps or call 866-KID HUNT.

Contact: Mike Arnold, CTO Chief Outfitter at 210-269-6590 or camps@teamcto.org