The cookhouse bell is silent. The bunkhouse doors are boarded up. America`s last camp for loggers and lumberjacks, perched in the rainy ridges of the Olympic Mountains, is shutting down for good ...

It includes a logging glossary, 142 historic photographs, and maps by Chris Ficken ... with us exploring and hiking outside the camp borders … one had to be there in order to feel the security ...

The girls of the camp had a clothing club which met at the school. Ray McGregor was a scaler for the logging company. Just a short distance east was another camp known as the Indian Camp.

In the late 1800s, the property was an old logging operation. The camp's current dining hall housed a sawmill that helped rebuild San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. But in 1930, the land was ...