Camp Curl 2011

Dad, Neighbor Bill, and Dave Reising at the cliff

Camp Curl 2011 was a great success. Dad, Neighbor Bill, and Dave Reising went over on Friday and stayed through Sunday afternoon. Dave and dad hunted squirrels with their flintlocks (dad had already gotten his turkey the previous weekend), and Bill hunted deer.

The weekend was filled with good camp food - hog jowl, eggs, fried squirrel, corn mush & maple syrup and more. Bill saw more deer than in all previous trips combined - passing up one 9-pointer - and dad/Dave had plenty of action on gray squirrels. Below are several pictures that Dave took.

The flintlocks

Dave and dad at one of the Hemlock Cliffs

 Dad shoots a gray squirrel at the top of the cliff. The squirrel rolled off and fell to the bottom, 100 feet below

 Bill and dad return to camp following Saturday morning's hunt

 Bill and dad beneath the "scalp tree"

 Bill on the cliff

 Bill and Dave on the cliff

 Dad cooking hog jowl and corn mush

 The barn is still there even though the Forest Service had plans to burn it

Dave gives a seminar to two hikers (they were coming back from the UofL cross country meet - his older son ran for Marguette)

 Squirrel frying on Saturday evening

 Dave and dad signed the note in a Geo-Cache they found near one of the cliffs

 Dave took this picture of his favorite hunting spot

 Dad missing a very long shot at a fox squirrel

 Then nights were chilly in the 30s, so the stove burned both nights

As the trucks patiently waited back at the wide spot in the trail