Monday, March 14, 2011

Next Camp-outs and dates to remember!

April 21 - 23 Camp Whitsett

For some service we will do for the camp, we have the whole camp to ourselves. We we will have access to the water front, rifle range, mountain bikes, and pretty much the whole place. And I hear we can sleep in the staff cabins, not the tents!

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May 6 -7

Merit badge camporee by High Desert District at Horsemans center in Vicotrville. If you want to earn some badges, we will make sure you get here.

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May 13 -14

Stake Aaronic Priesthood Father and Son's campout. Probably at Mojave Narrows. Bro J is doing breakfast. Come on out! For all fathers and sons, not just scouts.

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May 20 - 21

Camp-out!

Rock Climbing at Boy Scout Rock

Just like last year with all the ropes and equipment and instructors.

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June 13 - 18

Scout camp at Lake Powell

Badges in the morning, water sports in the afternoon.

July 13 - 16

Havasupai

10 mile backpack in, 2 days of swimming and exploring, then 10 miles out.

Hard work, but well worth it.


August 4 - 6

Yosemite.

Tuolumne meadows to Yosemite falls trail into the valley.

It comes down just to the left of that falls... trust me.

I believe this is about 10 total miles in three days... the second day is just swimming and playing on the slick-rock streams. Hike in day one, play day two, hike down the falls trail to the valley day three.

That takes us back to school time and the real world.

Crystal Cove State Park March 2011

Scott & Jer hit the trail for the quick 2 mile hike.

Logan, Brigham & Brian on harses (as my Dad from Sanpete County pronounced it).

Jared and Sam backpackin' in.



Here's where I learned about horses herding. The faster I went, the faster Patch went to keep up. After I finally barked to give me some room, they finally backed off a little. So, I apologize for getting a little snippy, but there were times I thought Patch was going to run me over! I finally took off running and so did Patch. With Logan yelling "slow down Dad!" from behind and me hollering "gimmie some room" from the front, Brigham figured to give me some room. He had thought nothing of it, Patch was just following the leader of the herd!


So, actually only 3 Scouts came on this trip... so we took sis along too.
Brianna was a good hiker but she wished she had her horse!


Mud and boys have a natural affinity. Here they are after a game of "Sneak up on the Scoutmaster".


Exploring the crick (another Sanpete thing)

The view to the west on the hike out.

We were going to go swimming at Brigham's brother's house on Saturday, but Patch fell in the crick in the night and got hurt. So they had to walk him out and take care of him. Poor ol' harse. I hear he's a mending, but slowly. I don't know why he tried to go down in the crick in the middle of the night anyway, maybe he saw an ol' coon passin' by and was trying to herd!!!
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Ol' Patch went on a campout
with a bunch of scouts one day.
Turned out he was a purdy fast hiker,
herdin' the scoutmaster most of the way.
But at night he went a-wanderin'
an' fell off inta the crick.
So Brigham had ta pull him out,
an' that was a purdy good trick.
But the trick was on him the next morn'
as he tended his trusty mount.
For ol' Patch was shorely a hurtin'
and ol' Brigham had ta walk out!
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Bro J, Cowboy Poet.

Newport Dunes February 2011

So, after going snow camping last month, we decided to go to the beach! Only at the campground on Newport's back bay there are no waves. But there is a heated pool and so we can cause a little havoc before camping on the sand of the bay
And, of course, it wouldn't be an official Scout trip without a camp fire. It's kind of good that there isn't anything flammable on the beach. We sometimes have a hard time keeping the fire in the ring.

We spent some time Saturday morning experimenting with a diet coke and Mento rocket. We weren't real impressed but we did get it to blow up a little.


Daniel and Devin and Jared went out canoeing and then decided to go for a swim. The water was a little cold so they didn't stay in long. There was a lot of whooping and hollering and they left the canoe out in the bay so the other canoe had to go get it. We had a good lesson on why we wear PFDs and bring extra BVDs.


Canoeing in the OC wilderness.