June 18, 2016 Crookston Reunion up Logan Canyon

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.