Thursday, April 21, 2011
2007 Camp Maple Dell
In 2007 I went to scout camp at Camp Maple Dell, all the way out in Payson, UT. It was awesome. I got a bunch of merit badges, and had a lot of fun. I was there with my friends Kameron and Konner who moved out to Utah. The best part of the camp was the Canoeing. There was a competition to see who's boat could survive the longest. You would go out in your canoe, line yourself up with another canoe, and start shaking the other boat with your hands, in an attempt to swamp them. It was so much fun, and not one other scout camp I've ever been to has ever come close to letting people do this, much less encourage it. I mean, the other scout camps I've been to don't even let you hang your feet out of the boat! So all you people out there, what has been your most fun scouting (or rebel like) experience? Also did I mention there were hardly any mosquitoes? Yes there were hardly any, there were bears, yes most definitely there were bears. But no mosquitoes, and that's what counts.
2006 Scout camp
Way back in 2006 I went to my first scout camp. It was at Camp Chief little turtle, up near Fort Wayne, and it was probably my worst scouting experience ever. (along with getting the first aid merit badge 3 times) There were thousand upon thousands of mosquitoes. They were literally everywhere. Add that to the fact that I had the misfortune of having to go to a first year campers program, (through a miscommunication of sorts). At this said program in which I had to spend my entire day, I didn't pass of one requirement, as I had already passed off most of them before camp. I didn't get to go boating or swimming all week. It seemed that all the mosquitoes had converged upon this part of the camp where we had this program. As of right now I can still feel the mosquitoes as they try and eat me alive, I think its in my head but I can feel them right now as I talk about this. I also didn't get to choose who I tented with so that was unfortunate as well. We were slapping our legs and arms all the day long. One scout had more then 600 bites. I wore mostly pants, so I didn't get as many, but it was miserably hot. Again the mosquitoes were everywhere. It also rained for the last half of the week. The few bright spots were that we once had a fun game of Ultimate Frisbee where we tried to take our minds off of the mosquitoes. Oh yeah, all the bug spray sold out of the trading post immediately, there was none left. We also had a fun game where we sprayed a water hose at this ball type thing to the other teams side, my team did pretty well, I think we got like 4th out of the whole camp. And.. We got a cool T-shirt! Other then that there isn't much. I remember going back to church the next day after we got back and talking about the good and the bad of this camp. And we couldn't come up with anything good, and if we did it wasn't a very good one. Well at least for the rest of my life I will have this experience to talk about, and it doesn't get much worse, so that means that everything else I ever do will be better! Great! Maybe Jimmer could have stopped those mosquitoes.. or not.
Cookies
Last week for mutual (or scouts) the Priests (Venturers) played basketball in the church gym. We used the scoreboard too. We played 2 games, the first in which my team won 34-29. My team also won the 2nd game. Davis Jackson was the MVP as my shot was very off. Logan played very well for the other team. Our team played pretty tough D. And there were a lot of fast-breaks as there were many a tired priest. It was a very fun activity and showed that a lot of us need to get in better shape. By the way Basketball is about as good as it gets when it comes to what we decide to do.
Yesterday the Priests and the laurels brought cookies and brownies to a homeless shelter, it was pretty fun, and served as motivation not to be one of the people that has to live there a lot of their life!
Yesterday the Priests and the laurels brought cookies and brownies to a homeless shelter, it was pretty fun, and served as motivation not to be one of the people that has to live there a lot of their life!
High Adventure Trip
For this blog, I'll probably be posting about stuff in random order, so one day I'll post about something that happened yesterday, or I may post about something that happened 5 years ago.
Back in the summer of 2010, the varsity scouts of the 3 Lafayette wards embarked on a treacherous journey through the red river gorge in Kentucky. I just tried to upload some pictures and.. the computer crashed. So there probably won't be too many pictures on this blog. First the scouts stopped in Southern Indiana and went spelunking. It was really fun, and no one died! Some of the scouts (and leaders) were pretty worried about doing this. At certain points we had to get all the way down on the ground and crawl forward on our stomachs until we got through the little crevice and to a spot where we could stand up and be proud that we had survived. There was a very long stretch called the back breaker in which you couldn't stand up at all, so you're back hurt pretty bad. If you did try to stand up you hit your head pretty hard on the ceiling, good thing we had helmets! I also had a headlight, and that was very useful as I did not have to hold it in my hand. We only got a lost a couple times down there. Over the next couple days we went on a long hike through a rainforest in the red river gorge. It took 3 days and was a little farther then most of the scouts probably thought it would be. We camped at a designated camp spot about halfway through. It was really nice and flat by a river, and it was very peaceful.. that is when the scouts were throwing huge chunks of rock into a huge boulder in the river. We got back on the trail the next day, those tents were heavy! But with about 2 miles to go till the finish line, we had a scout, Zach Horton, who was sick and we were not able to finish that day. But doubtless to say, we would have done it! We finished the trail the next day. This trail was the hardest I've ever hiked on. Up and down, up and down, and the trail was awful. It could barely be considered a trail. Did I mention it rained the first day on the trail? I want to thank DJ Galbraith, Davis Jackson, and Will Grisham, for making it an enjoyable experience. We all made it back safely without any casualties, so that was good.
Back in the summer of 2010, the varsity scouts of the 3 Lafayette wards embarked on a treacherous journey through the red river gorge in Kentucky. I just tried to upload some pictures and.. the computer crashed. So there probably won't be too many pictures on this blog. First the scouts stopped in Southern Indiana and went spelunking. It was really fun, and no one died! Some of the scouts (and leaders) were pretty worried about doing this. At certain points we had to get all the way down on the ground and crawl forward on our stomachs until we got through the little crevice and to a spot where we could stand up and be proud that we had survived. There was a very long stretch called the back breaker in which you couldn't stand up at all, so you're back hurt pretty bad. If you did try to stand up you hit your head pretty hard on the ceiling, good thing we had helmets! I also had a headlight, and that was very useful as I did not have to hold it in my hand. We only got a lost a couple times down there. Over the next couple days we went on a long hike through a rainforest in the red river gorge. It took 3 days and was a little farther then most of the scouts probably thought it would be. We camped at a designated camp spot about halfway through. It was really nice and flat by a river, and it was very peaceful.. that is when the scouts were throwing huge chunks of rock into a huge boulder in the river. We got back on the trail the next day, those tents were heavy! But with about 2 miles to go till the finish line, we had a scout, Zach Horton, who was sick and we were not able to finish that day. But doubtless to say, we would have done it! We finished the trail the next day. This trail was the hardest I've ever hiked on. Up and down, up and down, and the trail was awful. It could barely be considered a trail. Did I mention it rained the first day on the trail? I want to thank DJ Galbraith, Davis Jackson, and Will Grisham, for making it an enjoyable experience. We all made it back safely without any casualties, so that was good.
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