Comments on: Family Camp

By: Darya Mead

Darya Mead — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:53:07 +0000

Nancy, so glad you found this post and that it sparked such good memories!! the Mather traditions live on!

By: Nancy DeMartini

Nancy DeMartini — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:34:36 +0000

Darya
We are now in 2012 but I came across your piece about Camp Mather and enjoyed it so much. I now live in Oregon but I WAS one of the Mather kids way back in the ’60’s. Many years when May rolls around and summer is just waiting to happen, I think about Camp Mather. I absolutely loved the place. My memories still do.
It sounds very much the same except one of your comments mentioned a terrace for eating. Not so way back. There was a dining hall with a huge fireplace at one end. That black bear? the babies used to, many times, roam into the area below the dining hall and the kitchen help would go out and bang pans. This usually resulted in the mom( or moms) showing up too I guess to check on the commotion around their bear-kids. They quickly went elsewhere when they saw their moms.
My parents would save for Mather all year as there were 5 kids 2 adults alot of scrilla..even back in the 60’s. I would go up with my family usually at begininj of July with Mather friends and i’d go up with them again in July…no parents. Where’d we sleep? Shang!!!! The boys would clear a cabin for us and thats where we’d hang out. Or we’d sometimes be able to use a cabin that wasn’t filled or going to be filled soon. Thinking of those days now I don’t think that would happen…times have changed too much since the days of ‘kiss but watch the touching’ kind of mentality. Boys were fun then not at all predetors.
I think its the beauty of Mather that calles to me every summer. Living in Oregon I see many sun dappled,verdant spots. Everywhere you look here is green…but its the peaceful,stressless aspect of Mather that allows you believe God had a hand in it. It calls you back.

By: Camping Table

Camping Table — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:05:48 +0000

This is so nice to see a family enjoying what god graced us with. Thanks for sharing it with the world!! If more families did this I think the world would be a better place.
Thanks!

By: david

david — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:05:31 +0000

great post and description of the camp. It was a great week. I can’t wait until next year.

By: Darya

Darya — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:43:31 +0000

It may not be for everyone, but for what it is it’s a great time and the kids LOVE it. It feels also like such a unique SF vibe,a bit lost in time and yet so important for this era. One of my favorite things was the lack of phone/internet connections (you can go up to the Evergreen Lodge) or into town, but you are free of that constant, relentless stress of being ‘connected’; sometimes it’s just nice to watch the wind blowing though the trees.

By: Cynthia Luna

Cynthia Luna — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:38:09 +0000

Darya, fun to have heard about your week in person and then to read. We may become camp mather converts someday ourselves…los vazquez