Back to the Creek - July, 2007

Remember, it's been 25 years since the camps closed! Many of the places you may remember as open space and grass are now woods and underbrush!

Randy got his new Rock-Climber all dirty!

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The cemetery on the hillside above 
Galahad (now Joshua Scott).
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Contains graves for many of the 
Hill family, early owners of 
BLue Creek land
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Mary Black: b. Aug 14, 1849,
d. May 25, 1905 
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See Randy Rice's web site for 
Mary Black information.
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Eidence of logging near the cemetery
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The entrance to the climb to the 
cemetery,across creek from Galahad.
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Locals near Galahad
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Ready to go down creek to Camelot
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Creek crossing at east entrance
to Camelot
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Camelot gatepost - evidence of Kristiin
Glancy's "modern archeolgy".
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Woodpile near Camelot Castle site.
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Camelot castle site, looking east from
athletic field site.
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Unearthed portion of stone walkway to
east of Camelot Castle, looking east,
toward rifle range.
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and looking back west toward the castle,
from near the final craft shop location
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Kristiin also unearthed the 
Camelot campfire circle.
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THis was the Seat Royal location
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Inside the circle looking out...
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...and outside looking in
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A well which served the drinking 
fountain just outside the campfire circle.
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Former railbed at Middle Fork,
now a trail. We're working to expand rails / trails 
on the Creek!
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Railroad trestle at Middle Fork, about 3/4 mile
downstream of Carlisle. May have been the drop point for the 
walk-in in the 50s and 60s
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The troops gather at the 
Hunting and Fishing Lodge
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Some overnighters get an
early start.
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Foreground: Kristiin Glancy, 
Dave Gardner and Bill Burdette
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Kay Pickus with daughter Amy, Keleigh Rice
and others.
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Road at Camelot looking east. Footbridge end
was in background to left, castle to right
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Randy Rice and family arrive!
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Former mcampers and families explore the 
eastern portion of the Camelot site, near where
Wings 5 and 6 once stood.
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East of the castle, this is the tree which stood
at the northwest corner of the rifle range -- 
at the rifle storage shed
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Campers rediscover the Camelot
campfire circle
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Kristiin explains some of the 
artifacts she uncovered.
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Kay Pickus and family look on.
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Part of the "Seat Royal?"
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Randy Rice has a good audience for some 
memories at the campfire circle
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West of the Camelot ball fields, a pool
was put in in 1967.
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It was covered up when the camps closed...
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...but not any more!
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A camper with a treasure
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More remembering
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...and another side of the pool 
is dug up!
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At the Carlisle site, Randy Rice 
revisits Blue Creek
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About all that's left of the Carlisle stone
walkways.
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Toward the creek from the Carlisle Castle, 
some tree art recalls a magic time.
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The Carlisle side of the footbridge, 
near the rifle range
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This fellow greeted us as we returned to the 
Carlisle castle area from the rifle range area.
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The mysterious steps upstream of Camelot, 
once thought to lead to the Hill cemetery.
Not so -- still a mystery
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The group gets down to eating...indoors...
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...and out. 
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More campers and tales and memories.
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Barb Hicks Neddo organizes the next generation.
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