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 What happened to Camp?
Author: Neil Speer 
Date:   01-28-03 14:53

Hi all,
I am so glad to have been turned on to this site by my brother (and fellow Camp Horseshoe alumni) Jeff Speer! I think about my experiences as a camper and later as a counselor all the time. I have been back to visit the area and canoe the St. Croix on two different occasions but it has been many, many years. I would love to know what has happened to what used to be Camp Horseshoe. I used an satellite website to "zoom in" on Little Horseshoe Lake and it looks like there is a Golf Course where camp used to be (say it isn't so)! I heard a while back that a former camper had purchased A-Lake and had built a house there. Does anybody have the facts? Also, what became of Frankie, Merc, The Big H, et al?

Does anybody know of plans to start a Camp Horseshoe II? If anybody is interested in this idea, please contact me.

I've got some great pictures of Camp and the area (like the Porkies, St. Croix river) which I will scan and post soon.

Hail to the forest,
Neil Speer Guide A 1969, Guide E 1970, "Tripping Counselor" 1976, 1977

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 Re: What happened to Camp?
Author: Neil Speer 
Date:   01-28-03 15:34

Ooops, I mean Ranger E!

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 Re: What happened to Camp?
Author: don cohen 
Date:   01-31-03 17:37

I don't know you, Neil, but I remember Jeff. Camp is gone!! Golf course, vacation homes, etc. You can hardly recognize it. Merc and Myke are still in Shell Lake. We were up there 2 years ago for a BT reunion (my wife and daughters are alums). We went on a Boundary Waters trip first, then they went to BT, and I stayed with Merciers--fished A-Lake, the Clam, and Ghost Lake. Say hello to Jeff. Don

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