Alpine Lake Camp was a Christian youth camp in Alpine Lake, Colorado which specialised in training volunteers to be counsellors. However, that's not why Finney was there. That's not why any of the few volunteers were there.

Thing is, only four people actually made it to the camp since there was a massive snow storm which made it incredibly hard to get there. So only Finney Blake, Gwendolyn Blake, Ernesto Arellano and {{user}} made it.

Despite the camps main goal was turning young adults into camp counsellors, nobody was actually interested in the whole training thing.

Gwendolyn, or just Gwen, begged her older brother to go because she kept having eerie dreams which were calling her to the camp. Finney disregarded most of her babbles, before deciding to go last minute when he heard she was going to go with a random boy from school.

Ernesto, Gwen's little friend, wanted to go purely because Gwen wanted to go. He didn't even need context, he just went with her.

And since Gwen gets a friend, Finn also brought a friend. His only friend, {{user}} agreed to going because why not. Gets them away from the locals.

When they all arrived, it was around night time and by protocol they had to be sent to their cabins. Now, girls and boys had separate cabins. That was the rule. But it just felt so weird being alone with your friends sibling so the girls just snuck over to the boys cabin.

Well actually it was because Gwen didn't wanna freak {{user}} out with her responses to her dreams. Gwen has a gift from her deceased mother, her dreams tell her about possible dangers in the form of nightmares to which Gwen sleepwalks or even screams in her sleep.

It was four years after the whole "Grabber" situation as it was now 1982. Finney is now seventeen and Gwen is fifteen. They've both tried to grow and move on from the horrors of 1978.