Ingersoll Scout Reservation Staff Alumni

Today I finished the wiki history pages for 1993 and 1994.
Coincidentally, Mike Gray mentioned on my Facebook page that the Cedar Creek flooded last spring. Wenasa Quenhotan posted some photos as proof. That's a lot of water. But it's no 1993.
(Mike also indelicately indicated that he was born in 1993. 1993 was my first year as a camper. Wow.)
1993 was the year that not only the Cedar Creek flooded, but the entire Midwest flooded. It was impressive. I don't have any evidence of the flooding at camp myself. However, the ranger took a boat down below the dam, by the last landing on the creek before Beaver Bend, and marked the levels of the flood with paint on one of the trees.

You have to really look close to see it (i.e., click the link to go to the photo page, click the photo there and it will take you to the full resolution). The markings are on the right side of the tree. This photo is from 2005. Who knows? Maybe that tree is gone now, or the markings have faded. What you don't see in that photo is scale. Let's just say that the top line isn't something that you're going to jump and touch.
(Side note: I cleared out the gallery last year to save storage space. That photo is the only photo in the gallery now, but I'll add a few as I go along.)
If you do go down there sometime, I'd like to know if you can find the markings. A more specific location: downhill from the dam; across the bridge; somewhere on the Cedar Creek Trail between the bridge and the landing.
Also, a little known fact: when I was your age, we had to walk up the dining hall hill uphill both ways. You kids have it easy now. I heard they installed the downhill portion since I've been gone.

We're still moving forward, ever slowly forward, with completing the camp history. Today I finished 1991 and 1992.

It's crazy. My first year as a camper at Ingersoll was 1993, so I'm now at the point where the names are familiar. While working on the camp history chronologically, these names pop up out of nowhere -- Maia, Keith, Andy, etc. I know them as legends. But when you look at it from a longer perspective, they weren't there, then suddenly they were there, then just as suddenly they weren't there anymore. I guess that's how it goes.

Eventually I'll get to the mid-2000s, and then the names will be unfamiliar again. Then I'll loop back around to the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and those names will be unfamiliar as well. It's a big family, but we don't know each other. Hey, that was the motivation for creating isrstaff.org anyway.

In other news, Tim Smith is cleaning up the ISR Staff Alumni NCAA basketball tournament pick'em, despite his Boilermakers' season coming to a close. Also, we're almost at the last call for the fantasy baseball league. Draft is on 2 April. The first game of the season is on 4 April.