Willamette Geek: Hellboy, the Summer Camp

By RUTH BROWN

Doing the rounds of the interwebs today is news that TrackersPDX—which runs camps for adults and youngsters on skills like wilderness survival and wildlife tracking (so, a lot of paranoid survivalists, we imagine)—is running a summer camp based on the Hellboy comic series.

It struck us as a cheap gimmick at first, but it is actually a collaboration with Oregon-based Dark Horse Comics and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, so that's neat. It also does sound genuinely awesome:

Campers will also explore nearby Marmot, Oregon, and investigate the story of Adolf Aschoff—who was genuinely the town's founder, though Trackers seems to have embellished the tale somewhat to fit with the Hellboy theme, adding zombies, the Sasquatch, spirits and magic:

Other camp activities include potions and charms, telepathy training, gadgets of the occult, and meeting Hellboy artists.

Sadly, you have to be aged 9-17 to attend.

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