Greetings from Cuyuna Scout Camp;
Reminder: Cuyuna Scout Camp is available for year round use. The Sky is the limit on programming opportunities for packs, troops, and crews.
Be sure to check the following information using Cuyuna Scout Camp and on how you can help Cuyuna:
Keith Fitzpatrick
Cuyuna Scout Camp Ranger
campcuyuna @ crosslake.net, 218-692-3612
Notes from the Rangers Workshop…
Not long ago, past Cuyuna Ranger Brad Hove shared an interesting story. Chuck McMahon was asking him how he thought the channel between Big Pikerel and Little Pikerel lakes was formed. When you look at the channel from the family camp side or close up, it looks like there’s just one large scoop removed from the earthen wall that separates the 2 lakes. Ends up it was really a bunch of little scoops.
Seems the neighbors grandkids were “up to the lake” with him, some 40 or 50 years ago. At the time, what’s now Little Pik was just a marsh. Like most kids out there, it occurred to them that it might be fun to create a creek between the lakes. It probably sounded like a good place to race sticks, so with shovels in hand they set out to start a trickle. Imagine their surprise as their little stream quickly turned into a roaring river. They were afraid to go back to camp for quite some time, figuring that grandpa would take them to the woodshed for having “drained his lake”. Pikerel lost 5-7 feet of depth as the waters ran long into the night into what we now know as Little Pikerel.
So that’s a little piece of history for you! |
