Alpine Camp for Boys

09/09/2025

Returning Camp Families, don’t forget today is the last day for Priority Registration! Sign up by the end of today to hold your spot for Summer 2026!

09/04/2025

On Tuesday, September 2, our beloved Mrs. O, Carter’s mom, went to be with her Savior. It is fitting that she left this earth on her wedding anniversary. Mr. O adored his bride and always said she was the best thing that ever happened to Alpine Camp for boys. They were a faithful pair, loving and serving campers and staff summer after summer. Their joy and laughter were contagious to anyone in their presence. Her careful attention to detail brought beauty to a camp full of boys. Whether it was planting oak leaf hydrangeas in front of the dining hall, placing flowers in the gym for Sunday worship or helping us not miss lichen, mosses & wildflowers in the woods of camp, she taught us to have a sense of wonder in the creation surrounding us and how it points us to our Creator. The most important seeds she planted were the countless times she shared the love of Christ by opening her home to friends, family and her camp family. In the summer, she would read stories & scripture during Sunday vespers to our youngest campers which was one of her most favorite roles in camp. Mr. O at her side and milk & cookies were always served! All a small glimpse of the feast they are now partaking of!

Glenn & Carter along with the rest of their family, want to express their deep gratitude for your prayers and encouragement to them at this time. As it has been difficult to say goodbye to a mother and grandmother, they have hope and peace in the truth that “Jesus says there is nothing broken that won’t be mended, nothing sick that won’t be healed, nothing dead that won’t live again. Because God is making everything sad come untrue!” (taken from the Jesus Storybook Bible) Her faith has now turned to sight and for that they all rejoice!

09/04/2025

Memorial Service for Mrs.O

Visitation
Sunday, September 7
4-6pm EST
Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church

Memorial Service
Monday, September 8
10am EST
Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church
Lookout Mountain,

12/24/2023

A message from our Directors:

At camp, we love a good story. Over the years, counselors have often read the Chronicles of Narnia to their campers after cabin devotions. Sometimes it is in the smallest things at camp that we glean the largest lessons. We wanted to share this quote from The Last Battle: “Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.” As we gather this Christmas at camp with friends & family and Carter’s mom, Mrs. O, we pray that we would have the childlike awe and wonder at the birth of the Christ child in the stable. May His arrival and the good news that “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us…the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth”(John 1:14) be “bigger than our whole world” to us and may that truth rule in our hearts throughout the year.

As 2023 comes to a close, we look back on the summer and off season with much gratitude for our campers, counselors, staff and camp families. We are thankful for how the Lord has brought your story into the story of camp.

Merry Christmas from Lookout Mountain,
Glenn & Carter

05/31/2023

Glenn’s first blog of the summer is posted. Follow along to get updates from camp!
www.alpinecamp.com/blog/2023/5/let-the-games-begin.

01/24/2023

Many of you have asked for an Alpine belt and we finally have the perfect one! Go to our camp store at www.alpine-camp-store.myshopify.com or email [email protected] to place your order by next Monday, January 30. We will only be doing pre-orders for our needlepoint belts. They will make great graduation and Father’s Day gifts!

12/24/2022

A message from our directors:

Merry Christmas to our Alpine family & friends! Walking through camp, there is a frost covering the teamsports field and a lingering dusting of snow on cabin roofs. It makes us long for warm summer days when boys are back in camp riding mountain bikes, throwing frisbees, making lanyards, laughing together and singing songs in the gym. We are grateful for another great summer on Lookout Mountain! We are also thankful for our full time and summer staff who work so hard to make camp a special and fun place for campers and most importantly a place where boys can “grow in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52).

This year we lost Carter’s dad, Dick O’Ferrall, who was affectionately known at camp as Mr. O. As we gather with our family at camp to celebrate Christmas this year, we are missing him very much. He cherished this time of year with family and loved all the details of the season…candlelight Christmas Eve service, reading the Night Before Christmas to the family, watching gifts being opened that he put so much thought into, enjoying a bowl of peppermint ice cream after a large family meal and telling stories around the dinner table well into the evening.

During Christmas of 2020, he spent time reminding us that in the midst of so much unknown and change in that year, that our Savior is unchanging, that His message is the same, the gospel has not changed and that is what we can put our hope in and where we can find our joy!

So in our days of missing him, we can remember that we have hope and joy in the midst of much loss. The joy that the child born in the manager came so that we might be made new in Him (2 Corinthians 5:17) and the hope that one day all things will be made new through Him (Revelation 21:5).

Sally Lloyd Jones words it well in the Jesus Storybook Bible…”And the King says, “Look! God and his children are together again. No more running away. Or hiding. No more crying or being lonely or afraid. No more being sick or dying. Because all those things are gone. Yes, they’re gone forever. Everything sad has come untrue. And see – I have wiped away every tear from every eye!” And then a deep, beautiful voice that sounded like thunder in the sky says, “Look, I am making everything new!”

Going into 2023, may we seek the truths and promises of our unchanging Savior. In experiencing joy in the small details of our lives may we see more of who He is and wonder at His love for us.

For Rapids that Flow,
Glenn & Carter

09/09/2022

College guys…our staff application for Summer 2023 is now available on our website! Apply today!

08/04/2022

Information for Mr. O’s Memorial Service & link to livestream:

All Eastern Times
All events will be at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church • 316 Bragg Avenue, Lookout Mountain, TN

Friday, August 5 • 2:30-4:30 pm Visitation (Sanctuary)
Friday, August 5 • 4:45-5:30 pm Hymn Sing (Fellowship Hall)
Saturday, August 6 • 11:00 am Memorial Service (Sanctuary)

Please note that parking is somewhat limited, so carpooling is encouraged.

Boys, there will be peanut butter in the ice cream! It will be served outside of the Fellowship Hall during visitation.

For the Memorial Service, wear a touch of Alpine green (green ties, bowties, etc.).

Link to live stream is:

This is "Dick O'Ferrall | Memorial Service" by Lookout Mountain Presbyterian on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

07/18/2022

On behalf of the Breazeale, Harmon & O’Ferrall families, we wanted to share the following for the Memorial Service honoring Mr. O (Dick O’Ferrall) who was the beloved founder and longtime director of Alpine Camp.

All Eastern Times
All events will be at Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church • 316 Bragg Avenue, Lookout Mountain, TN

Friday, August 5 • 2:30-4:30 pm Visitation (Sanctuary)
Friday, August 5 • 4:45-5:30 pm Hymn Sing (Fellowship Hall)
Saturday, August 6 • 11:00 am Memorial Service (Sanctuary)

Boys, there will be peanut butter in the ice cream! It will be served outside of the Fellowship Hall during visitation.

For the Memorial Service, wear a touch of Alpine green (green ties, bowties, etc.).