"I ran Fern Lake Lodge in 1958 for a summer and I and my family will never forget the mountains and our time there--RIP Denver John (her brother) and Clark-and my ex, Peter Taylor, who ran the water down from the springs into the pipes and into the lodge and kept the first [fires] burning and the wood chopped--our memories float over the spring run-offs and the sunsets and sunrises as hikers take to the mountains to see the Columbines and Paintbrush, the leaping trout and the nutcrackers and Rocky Mountain bluebirds. I will go up that 9 and 1/2 mile hike again, over the 11,000 foot pinacle above Odessa Lake and above Bear Lake, and down into the Fern Lake terrain. The Lodge where we worked--I baking bread and pies on a wood stove-and slept, down on the river bank are all gone, but the memories live on."Thousands of hikers still visit Fern Lake each year, but none will ever find any evidence that the lodge ever existed. Here's a photo of Judy Collins performing at Fern Lake Lodge:
Jeff
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