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Camp Prouty

  • Start date: 08/05/1973

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/19/1973

  • End time: 11:59 PM

  • Event Leader: Smith Helen

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  • Event category: Summer Camp

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  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

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  • Season: 1973

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  • Event Status: Passed

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  • Member Fees: —

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  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Summer Camp

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Camp Prouty
Corral Flat, Oregon
August 5–19, 1973

Location:
Corral Flat, Oregon
(WGS84) 43° 55' 32" North, 121° 58' 44" West
UTM Zone 10, 581900 easting, 4864100 northing
Elevation: 4550 ft. (1387 m)

The two-week outing in August at Corral Flat was blessed with sunshiny days and cool, moonlit nites. One or two nites each week it dropped below freezing for us and we broke ice on our water buckets in the morning. We were camped in a meadow with quite high grass and every morning there was a heavy dew.

Coyotes were in the vicinity during the first week and would sound off during the nite. One morning about daybreak one of them let out some yelps close by our camp. In the evening bats were seen and an owl. On one hike a sandhill crane was heard and seen flying overhead. The second week one member saw a large brown bear feeding on huckleberries in Dealy Meadow.

Many lakes and meadows were visited during the two weeks and two mountains were climbed—Packsaddle and Little Roundtop. The end of the camp found a number of our members more knowledgeable about a section of our own Three Sisters Wilderness. Fire restrictions hampered us some the second week, but we had a very nice packerman who came from Oakridge. He brought a propane stove in the middle of the weekend which helped us out a lot. He also brought in a treat of watermelon, corn on the cob, tomatoes and lettuce. His name is Charles Wetzel and we surely enjoyed becoming acquainted with him.

Our finances worked out satisfactorily The Club advanced us $100.00 from last years surplus to buy equipment. We received $555.00 in fees and $33.50 for personal packing and paid out for food supplies $341.24, packing $220.00 and the rest of the money went for equipment. In addition we received several gifts of equipment from members. Our cooks this year were two Obsidian women — Dorothy Leland and Dorothy Medill. They received no pay so we all helped out so they could hike with us.

Those in attendance were: 1st week, Ray Sims, Bea LeFevre, Thelma Watson, Eunice Mickle, Allethe McDonald, Colin McDonald Donn Chase, Dorothy Leland, Mary Bridgeman, Helen Smith; 2nd week: Wes Prouty, Dorothy and Clarence Scherer, Clarence Johnson, Peter Stasney, Chuck Haddad, Jim & Louise & Chuck Berkey, Dorothy Medill, Paula Vehrs, Eunice Mickel, Helen Smith.

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