Camp Blog

Our Camp Directors, typically Don Gentle and Woody Noland, post a daily blog each evening that covers the day’s events, highlights from trips, weather updates, and other news from camp. You can find our blog post at the link below. This is a great way to follow along with your camper’s day and is a good starting point for your letters!

Camper Photos

Our photographers work hard to capture the essence of each camp day through pictures, which we share daily throughout the session! While we strive to publish a shot of each camper every day, please understand that with trips out of camp, special programs, and 14 activities to photograph, we cannot guarantee that every camper will be featured every day. To increase your camper’s chances of being in photos, coach him to hop in front of the camera when he sees a photographer!

New for 2026: To view camp photos, you have two great options, depending on what works best for your family.

Option 1: High Rocks Photo Gallery (Free)
Our official camp photo gallery, where all photos are uploaded nightly around 9:00 pm ET.

  • Cost: Free
  • How it works: Access to the daily photos are free, although the gallery is password-protected for privacy. We will set you up with a personalized username and password on Opening Day.
  • The Experience: This allows you to manually click through the nightly albums to look for your son. While you can “right-click” to save a low-resolution photo perfect for a phone screen, these images are not high-resolution.
  • Enroll: You will be emailed login details on Opening Day.
  • Having trouble?: See our troubleshooting below.

Option 2: Waldo Photos (Facial Tagging & High-Res Downloads)
An optional, third-party photo service that partners with High Rocks to bring your camper’s photos right to your phone through facial tagging. We will upload these photos by 11:00 am the next day.

  • Cost: $14.99 for 1 Week, $24.99 for 2 Weeks, $39.99 for 3 Weeks, or $49.99 for Four Weeks per camper
  • How it works: Waldo uses facial recognition technology to scan our uploads. Every time a photo of your son is found, Waldo automatically sends a text alert or push notification directly to your phone with the image. 
  • Why Choose Waldo: It saves you time scrolling through the daily photos. Furthermore, your Waldo subscription includes unlimited high-resolution downloads of your son’s photos, making it incredibly easy to order prints or share high-quality memories on social media. You can still scroll through all the session photos along with your tagged photos, through Waldo.
  • Enroll: You can enroll anytime before or during your camper’s session.
    • Sign up via this link.
    • Upload a Photo: You will receive a prompt to text back a clean, front-facing photo of your son so Waldo’s facial recognition knows who to look for. 
    • View and Share: Download the Waldo App for Apple or App for Android.

Can You Use Both? Yes! You are welcome to use the free version and Waldo. Both have access to see all the photos uploaded daily. We will send every family login info to the High Rock Photo Gallery on Opening Day, regardless if you have registered for Waldo.

When Will Photos Be Uploaded? Around 9:00 pm each night, we will post the blog and photos to the free High Rocks gallery. The next morning, by 11:00 am, we will upload the same photos to Waldo for facial tagging. 

Have Questions?

Please call or email our office with your questions. We are happy to help walk you through our options and troubleshoot!

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High Rocks Picture Gallery Help

Registration & Login

On Opening Day afternoon, our new camper families will receive login details to the preferred email on file. Check your spam/junk folder if you do not see it. You have to be logged in to see photos. If you are not logged in, you will only see a blank page with no photo albums. returning families can use the password from last year or just use the “forgot password” link on the login page.

After you get the login sorted, below are some details to help you figure out all the features while using a desktop computer or laptop. The mobile guide (phones and tablets) is in the next section.

No high resolution downloads and image tagging will be done through our High Rocks gallery. Waldo photos will be offering these services.

High Rocks Picture Gallery: Desktop

Below are the details if you are on a computer.
A phone and tablet are similar, but may have different menus.

Top Toolbar

The toolbar at the top of the gallery has a lot of navigation and links to all the pictures and details. Including the different albums, your favorites, Tags, and other picture statistics. You will see three drop downs: albums, discover, and your name/identification. 

  • Albums
    • Click on one of the Albums on the main screen or choose “Albums” at the top that corresponds to your session.
    • On the next page, click on the day you want to look at pictures.
    • You will then see a window pane appearance that shows a preview of each picture.  Click on the image to see the whole view.
    • Album Slideshow: The little play icon above the images on the album toolbar starts a slideshow. To exit, hit the “X” out at the top right.
  • Discover
    • Allows your to see different options like your favorites, most visited pictures, most recently posted, and more.
    • Your Favorites: You can look down on the Picture Page section to learn how to “favorite” a picture. IMPORTANT: When viewing your favorites, DO NOT hit the broken heart that looks very similar to the “add favorite” heart… It will remove all of your favorites.
  • Identification – This is your login information. You can change our password here.

Picture Page

This is where all the excitement is located. Once you click on an image, you will come to the picture/image page. You can use the navigation above the image or use the carousel at the bottom to look at others. 

You can leave comments on any photos – we love reading what families are excited about! We will approve them and share them with the High Rocks family. Only people with logins with see comments.

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  • 1st Icon: The first icon is the previous photo
  • 2nd Icon: The “up arrow” icon will take you back to the gallery screen.
  • 3rd Icon: The two arrows facing opposite will take it to the Fullscreen/slideshow.  You can “x” out of this to go back to the image information like tagging, favorites, and comments.
  • 4th Icon: The last icon takes you to the next photo.
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Below is a list explaining each icon as it is listed in order from left to right. You can also roll over any icon to get a description.

  • Picture Size: Choose between two different sizes to display.
  • Play Slideshow: This will play the album in slideshow mode. You can hit the “X” on the top left of the slideshow page to close it. You cannot tag, favorite, download, or comment while the page is on the full screen or slideshow. Once you “X” out you can go to the picture you want.
  • Favorite: Click on the heart to save this picture to your favorites.  If it is already in your favorites, the desktop version shows a solid heart.  Under Discover, you can see all of your favorite pictures. IMPORTANT: DO NOT hit the broken heart that looks very similar to the “add favorite” heart. It will remove all of your favorites.

High Rocks Picture Gallery: Mobile

Below are the details for getting around the gallery on your phone or tablet.  The address is the same, but the experience is a little different with touchscreen-like details and different navigation menus. 

  • Menus: All the menus are still at the top, they are just hidden in a small block in the top right corner.  It has three lines on it (three lines or a hamburger menu).  This will drop down the Albums, Discover, Related, Albums, and your user info.
  • If you want to go straight to tagged images of your son, hit the Discover menu and type his name in the quick search.
  • Pick Your Session: On the main screen, you can still just swipe down the page to find your session and then pick the day from there.
  • Gallery of the Day: Once you get to the gallery of the day, you can just swipe down to see the pictures in a vertical carousel.
    • Double tap in this carousel view to get to an individual image. Click the menu (three lines or hamburger menu) to see options like slideshow, download (if you paid for the subscription), add to favorites, or the smug mug tag features.
  • Slideshow: Right next to the gallery name, you can hit that small menu block (hamburger menu) below the house to hit the play button to start the slideshow.
    • Hit the arrows to maximize the screen and I find this to be the best way to view on the phone.   
    • Once the slideshow is going, you can also swipe through the pictures going left or right.
    • You cannot do any of the menu items in the slideshow. “X” out or hit the “stop slideshow” to  see the hamburger menu again.  That is the menu dropdown to get you to all the options. 

Picture Page

  • On the mobile picture page, you can pull the small menu block down to tag, and favorite your images.
  • Navigation is the same as the desktop experience.
  • On mobile, there is also a carousel at the bottom to keep scrolling through the pictures.
  • You can also see comments or make comments from the picture page.

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