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to the Glen Gray Home Page.My dad, Robert Arny, loved Glen Gray and spent many weekends and summer months at the Glen. He was a camper in the days of "Uncle" Frank Gray, who was a man Dad admired greatly. Towards the end of Dad’s life he shared a number of fond Glen Gray memories with me, including a description of his first trip to camp when the boys from Montclair took the train from Montclair to the Midvale Station, from which they would hike to camp.
It must have been around 1920, when he and some friends hiked up to camp a few days after Christmas. This was in the days before modern, high tech sleeping bags, and before many of the cabins were built, so the boys had only blanket bed rolls and little other protection. They built themselves a lean-to, cooked their supper and went to sleep, planning a hike the following day.
When they woke in the morning, the temperature had dropped to below zero, their eggs were frozen solid in the shells and their bed rolls were covered with snow. All part of life at the Glen in the early days. They were a hardy bunch and a bit more adventurous than many young folks today.
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