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    Campers at Columbus?

    broken neck I recall a local teenager jumped off the rope swing at the old damm and broke his neck. This was the summer before the damm broke and the swimming pools. Do you remember the rope swing down there? Assembly at night was in the rec hall and we would all sit in rows of benchs...
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    Campers at Columbus?

    Camp Columbus I do remember the hopper trick. Sneak in the opposite door, and tickle the poor unsuspecting kids butt with a stick and watch him rocket off the toilet seat. Great stuff. I'm so old that that memory was running together with a similar dirty trick we played on a friend once...
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    Campers at Columbus?

    This is Pat Welch, Chris, Mike and Matt's brother. How about this. The foot path that cut you through to clearwater. About 1/2 way was a left turn and foot path that cut you across the boggie end of the lake and a series of cedar foot bridges acorss streams. If you followed that path it...
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    Campers at Columbus?

    Memories of CC This is PatW, brother of Chris, Matt, Mike and Steve. This is what I remember of CC. I remember a foot path near the boat launch at the end of the cub camp. It went along the lake back toward clearwater. Maybe 1/2 way down it made a left and crossed through the boggie...
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