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Current Entry: $1.01
An observer unfamiliar with the curious madness that is the Winter Camp way of life would nonetheless be tipped off to the odd state of affairs which prevails on seeing the cost of the event, which has since Winter Camp II been an integer multiple of $1.01. As Steve Donohue and Jeff Rand have detailed in Origins, this custom has its roots in a Laurel and Hardy movie, The Blockheads, where Hardy lived in apartment 1313. This movie was viewed during the informal planning session for Winter Camp II, so that number was set as the price of the event, and a tradition was born.