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.