1922 Camp Lomia Lodge that Grandpa Crookston helped buile
Carl, Joe, David, Carole, Lorena, Myra and Ralph
Inside was very nice and cool temperature wise.
Joe Harline with some cousins
Miraim (Lynn's daughter, Lorena and JoLynne
Here's Toothless Mason Clark (minus his front 4 teeth).
At the Crookston Reunion on Sat., a boy named Mason (age 5)
not Mason Clark was missing for about 45 minutes until they found him about a
block away in another camp. We were
worried because there was a six foot wide stream along the side of the girl’s camp.
The site for the reunion was about 15 miles up Logan
Canyon. It was hard getting to the Lodge
because on this small road just big enough for 2 cars to pass and two cattle
trucks loaded with sheep were coming down the hill towards us with a stream on
our side. We pulled over as much as we
could and they sqoze by with just an inch to spare! Never seen anything like it! Then when we were going down, they had
someone stopping traffic at a fork while 5 trucks full of cattle came up the
road. We had to wait about 20 minutes
but understood that was better than dueling it out with the five of them on the
narrow road. You’d think they would wait
till the weekdays when there weren’t as many cars on the road!
The Lodge was huge with balconies on both sides. It was very old but well taken care of and
the temperature inside was about 10 degrees cooler than on the outside with a
breeze that blew through the north and east doors. Grandpa Crookston had helped build the Lodge
back in 1922. It was originally a Boy Scout Camp and then became a Girl’s Camp and is now a Stake Camp with Girl’s Camp
having priority. It has a nice kitchen, indoor plumbing and individual
cabins for sleeping. In the grassy area
outside there was a volleyball net, lots of grass and a tree swing that was
kept going non-stop.
One of the cousins told The Legend of Old Ephraim, a documented 9-foot-11-inch, 1,100-pound grizzly bear. It was about a 30 minute long telling of the
problems that this bear was causing to the ranchers in the area of both sheep
and cattle. The bear was real smart and
would move traps out of his way. It is a 12 mile round trip hike to the bear's grave or you can travel on some steep dirt roads to get there.
