Since1950 our family went to "Baptist family camp. Once some of the dads caught salmon in the Wood River and the cooks baked up a feast. If this is not possible, then maybe they went over Galena and caught the salmon in the other drainage. But was Galena Pass open then??? The fish were definitely salmon - not big trout! Many times the men caught trout in the river and they were usually fried up for breakfast.
The first year my best freind and I stayed at a camp without our families was after 4th grade. We stayed in one of the half dozen two-person tents - a canvas top over a wood floor and frame. When our parents left us off and we felt kind of forlorn. Her mother left a big bowl of cherries for us to snack on. First thing our group did with our counselor was to go swimming at Easley. When we got back our tent was swarming with hornets! They had smelled the cherries and gotten ino othe tent through cracks but then not gotten back out! What a problem for two little 10 year old girls!!! We finally found some adults and the solution was to remove the fabric tent top becasue the hornets wouldnt leave otherwise. The cherries were donated to the kitchen as we clearly didn't want to keep them in our tent.
I canstill remember sprucing up our tent for "inspection". Every day we'd arrange pinecones, rocks, sticks, flowers, etc to decorate the tent a different way. It was quite the interior decoring competition!
I have hundreds of happy memories of Cathedral Pines. It was always interesting to meet the kids from Baptist churches around the state. Mud Lake seemed like the most bazaar place anyone could possibly live!! Camps ranged in size from about 60 to 230. They cost $17.50 per week toward the end - I dont know what they were at first. Each spring a small folded flier was distributed with the dates and age-groups of the different camps. From then on we talked of it constantly and who would room with who and which cabin or lodge we'd try to get into. for the enormous camp of @230 kids all the cabins were overloaded and some were sleeping in areas usually designated for other things. The dining hall had to have extra tables brought in and set up on the end that was usually considered a stage/meeting area.
Everyone had to take at least one turn at being the server for a table - that was fun. But KP duty was not fun! The wash and rinse water was scalding hot and we had to reach down into the deep sinks to get the items on the bottom. I bet that would be considered child abuse now days.
But we had so much fun and wonderful experiences.
Long live Cathedral Pines!