A Lookout Mountain summer camp is returning to its coed roots after parents and campers expressed outrage when the couple who purchased the camp announced plans to exclude boys this summer.
“We’re rolling the clock back and going back to our traditional summer camp that we’ve had for so many years,” said Alyson Gondek, who is returning as owner and director of Camp Woodmont in Cloudland, Georgia, after selling the camp to Martin and Kelsie Tribble in the spring of 2024.
After her husband underwent open heart surgery in 2020, Gondek said the couple decided to sell the camp to allow more time with each other, their children and their grandchildren.
“When somebody goes through a very serious health issue, it makes you reevaluate things,” she said by phone. “We wanted to sell so that we could just continue living life as best we could.”