Author: Ryan Lurie
Date: 08-24-02 15:14
Hi Everybody!
My brother Mike called me yesterday to tell me about this site, and I'm so glad he did! I went to camp from '82 to 88', and have so many great memories that I hardly know where to begin-
-Ping Pong with Michael Scwhartz and his orange hat
-catching my permanent on the Big Horse with Bob Thompson
-eating Andy Boran's upchucked pancake during the super relay
-the French kid-- Alexis i think-- in my cabin ranger year who insisted on calling me a yankee peasant
-Trying, swallowing, and eventually puking Dave Adams' chew.
- Seeing Chief Nam sitting in a canoe a couple of hundred yards off shore but 'refusing' to come closer
-Being read "Where the Red Ferns Grow" by John Dinnies my woodsman year.
I could go on all day. Anybody remember the Bruhl disaster one year when something like 4 out of seven boats flipped, with one getting wrapped around a rock? The day started out in rain, and the river was high. I was canoing with Lance Silverman. I remember coming around a corner early in the day of the 'big' rapids' and hitting a downed tree broadside. We jumped out but our canoe sunk and got completely wedged underwater beneath the tree. The water was deep and there was no way the two of us could budge it. Gradually, a few other canoes came up on us and stopped to help-- I don't remeber who. Then, as we're all working to free the boat, Andy Shore comes floating around the corner, by himself, with no canoe in sight! There was a moment of surprise, but just as he gets even with us he raises his arm out of the water and says "Hey guys, what's up?" as if there wasn't anything at all odd about his appearing in the middle of the river with no boat in sight, except ours which was completely submerged beneath a fallen tree! Everyone on shore lost it. We couldn't stop laughing, even as Andy continued to float down stream unable to get to land. I still laugh when i think about it.
It's great hearing from all of you! I hope someday we'll get a chance to get together.
ryan
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