We had 12 Scouts and 8 leaders show for the outing. Sometimes I don't know who has more fun!
First hike of the year! We're starting off 2012 with a hike to Devil's Punchbowl. It's really just a big hole in the ground, but I guess in the summer it's hot or something. Anyway, someone gave it that name for some reason, I'm sure. It's actually pretty impressive and inspired an original joke from Adam. It goes something like this: The Devil thought he'd make a big hole so he made Devil's Punchbowl, but Chuck Norris thought he'd show him how it's done so he made the Gulf of Mexico. hahahaha Well, it was something like that. I can't believe I forgot the exact words, Adam told it to me about 6 times!
So here we are gathered around the fire which we only jumped over a few times. After Andrew fell in we had them stop. We didn't want anyone else to get hurt. We had tin foil dinners and had a good time talking into the night.
Andrew, Logan, Tofer, Adam, Jacob, Keanu, Sam
6 miles, from Southfork campground to Devil's Chair and then to the Nature center at Devil's Punchbowl Natural Area. Not a bad hike. Nobody passed out or anything. Well, Keanu kind of fell over exhausted but that's not like he was injured or anything. He was fine after he laid on the ground and rested a few minutes.
Here we are at Devil's Chair. It's actually just a rock. Pretty much everything around here is just rock. That's the San Andreas fault you can see behind us. That's a crack in the rock.
So, next month is Snow Camp... assuming we get any snow. If we don't we'll just have a regular dirt camp. We hope to ride the chairlift at Mountain High and then hike over to Blueridge Campground and ride the lift back down the next day. So we'll see how that goes!
