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1979 Staff:


Like 1978, Northwoods was only run for a five week period.  The staff of Lowden came north to operate Northwoods.  While there was a High Adventure staff, they did not go up appreciably early.  And there was no rivalry problems except for one "grumpy-gus"--me.

Memories:

1979: 
Oh, not much memorable about this summer.  I was wrapped around the axle about how things were not like they had been in the past.  I just didn't get it that the past was gone.  I should have either not worked there that summer, or somebody should have given me a good kick in the ass.    A fortuitous evening at the Boulder Beer Bar with Mike Berlin had me meet some Canoe Basers and that helped lead to summer's employment for 80-83 at the Northern Wisconsin Canoe Base.  Took a lot of solo hikes and paddles to remote parts of the property.  I hung out at our old "High Adventure" campsite from 1978 quite a bit.  Took 4 or 5 groups to the Porkies for the day.  Frequently did the hike into Trap Falls.  I  remember taking my Honda 125 Motorcycle to camp that summer and storing it in a wall tent in the parking lot.  Only used it 2 or 3 times during the summer.  Had one nice long ride over to Beaton's Lake.

I  recall clearing a lot of old logging trails as the Ordeal taskmaster.  Not real practical, but we knew the camp was closing, so no need to embellish fire-rings, etc.

I remember the OA Ceremonial  team having some great paint-jobs that year.  Fu-man-chu, Cisco, and Clowns.  I have a few slides of this.  I'll try and get them into JPEG's.

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