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| Working on addition to Trading Post during Staff Work week. (this is and old trading post located in a building that is no longer there) | Staff on first night of work week
before staff tent/cabins were set up. Ray Peter (I think)
on left. John Henry in rear. Don’t recall name of person in front. |
Out of focus – Sorry but I am
sending for interest. Two Camp Staff working hard setting up staff tent/cabins. |
Saturday Campfire presentation of
overnight pack-in program Jim Wattengel (that’s me) on left. John Henry in front. Not sure of name of person in rear. (Maybe Bruce Briggs) Burro: Pete |
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| Jim Wattengel (me) at Saturday Campfire | More Campfire - Jim Wattengel
(that’s me) on left. John Henry in front. Not sure of name
of person in rear. (Maybe Bruce Briggs) Burro: Pete |
Saturday night at the corral. Black horse: Diablo – Smokey’s horse (but mine for the summer). White Horse: Name?? Jim Oman’s horse. |
On the ‘trail’. This was very
steep route up the ridge that goes up behind the water tank (tank
still there?). This ridge parallels Bone Creek and met
the logging road (then dirt) about ¼ mile before reaching the
next valley. Sentinal Peak is behind tree. Kern Canyon in distance. Camp Whitsett in valley to right. Elephant Knob just out of picture on right |
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| On the ‘trail’. Group finally reached much welcome shady section that was less steep. Ther used to be a spring nearby with good water | This is one of my favorite
pictures. You can see how Smokey got his nickname. (That is
cigarette smoke, not a beard). Bruce Briggs on left. Camp Director in rear (Name?) Other hidden person ?? Horse: DIABLO |
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| BACKGROUND NOTES ON
WHITSETT 1959 PICTURES: I was a camper with troop 63 from Sun Valley in 1954, 55, 56. We camped in Campsite 14, which at the time was the farthest upstream camp on Nobe Young Creek behind Antelope Lodge. This is roughly in the area of the current Tillamook campsite. I worked on the Camp Staff in 1957, 58, 59. In ’57 and ’58 I was on the waterfront as canoeing instructor as well as other waterfront responsibilities. Camp Capacity in those days was about 300-350 scouts. About 15 on staff not including Director and one or 2 other professional Scouters: Volunteer doctor (and family) rotated each week. Chaplain; Smokey (the camp ranger); Marge (Smokey's wife) who cooked staff food. Campers cooked their own food which was issued daily from commissary at rear of the old Trading Post. In 1959 the authorities (Forest Service) did not permit the filling of the lake due to lack of water. So we improvised a overnight pack-in program in which Jim Oman and I led troops on pack trips out of the Camp to Dry Meadow area and the Divide Highway area. (The ‘Divide Highway’ wasn’t a highway at all at that time … just a semi-improved logging road). The program was pretty basic. Jim or I would take a group to one of the areas. They carried their personal gear in backpacks and 1 or 2 burros carried the food and other gear. We would drop the group off in around noon or so and then bring the unloaded burros back to camp. The next day (sometimes 2 days) one of us would pick up the group and return to the Camp. This was a pretty big deal for many of the Scouts because many had very little back-pack experience. However, they (I) really missed splashing in the lake. Smokey bought a horse, Diablo, that year and I rode him every weekday for 8-10 hours, for 8 weeks. The other animals: 1 horse and 6 burros were rented from someone by Roads End. |
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