Tim Pond Sept 19-22 2024 Friday night to Sunday Morning
These pages are an account of my 3 days at Tim Pond in Eustis Maine. Tim Pond is a sporting camp. The official trade mark says Wilderness Camps. Eustis has been on my map since the 50s and 60s when I spent 10 years as a camper and counselor at Camp Kawanhee in Weld Maine. Weld is about 60 miles south of Eustis. I am sure I heard of Tim Pond but we never interacted with them as part of my Kawanhee life.
In the 70s and 80s I started skiing at Sugarloaf and became more aware of the towns North of there, Straton and Eustis. By the 90s I was primarily cross country sking from Lumberjack Lodge at the foot of Sugarloaf Mt. And the owner, Paul Schipper, introduced me to his sporting camp north of Eustis, Kibby Kamp on Spectacle pond. It was on the King and Bartlet road, open in the winter for logging trucks. They only ran week days so I would drive in 10? miles on the ice road, leave my car, xcountry in the 5 miles to Kibby Kamp, have my back pack lunch and a bottle of wine and return.
In the late 90s, when our daughters were like 6 and 3, I convinced Paul, against his better judgment, to allow our family and another family with roughly the same age children to come into Kibby for a couple nights in the summer. But that is a story for another time. This all by way of introducing the idea that I have been aware of Maine sporting camps for many years.
In the fall of 2023, at age 77, I was looking for another way to get into trouble and decided it was time for me to actually be a normal guest at such a camp. I researched the institutions available, settled on Tim Pond and the representative, Darcie, offered me 2 days in late? July. As that date approached, Darcie communicated with me saying they were doing construction and offering me 3 days for the same price at a later time. I choose Sept 19-22. It had always been my intention to visit more in “hunting” season but my memory is that such was not offered initially and I figured I might as well get my foot in the door at whatever dates were offered.
These pages are the story of that visit.