The Scout

This year the Klondike Derby campout was cold and rainy! We were lucky that it didn’t rain too bad while we were going to our stations.

Saturday morining, some boys were cooking breakfast. They were making eggs and bacon. Somebody yelled FIRE! Then Mr. Barnes saved the day. He put out the fire.

That night it rained and rained. A lot of us woke up in a puddle. Some of the tents leaked.

Your in Scouting,

Chris R.

On September 9, 2006, my dad and I did a 20 mile hike at False Cape State Park / Back Bay Wildlife Refuge.  When we started, we had to hike 5 miles in loose sand.  We saw a huge dead sea turtle with its head off and a few blue hardhats.  Also, some horseshoe crab shells.  Then when we got to the ranger station, we ate lunch.  After lunch, we hit the trail which was 10 miles down and back.  Some parts of the trail were infested with mosquitoes. There were a lot of bikers.  Then we stopped at the ranger station again and we ran into Troop 10.  After our break, we had to go 6 more miles to hike to finish.  It was the longest 6 miles of my life.  But we did it and I finished my hiking merit badge.

Shelby

The canoe trip I took was awesome.  Andrew and I got at Camp Lenhok’sin on Sunday, July 16 (Tim was already there, he works there) and did gear check and put everything in dry-bags so they wouldn’t get wet.  That night we went to the campfire which was funny.

The next morning, we ate breakfast and our ride showed up with the canoes.  All the gear went into the canoes including our food and water jugs.  We went to the James River to start our trip.  That day we went 13 miles but it was easy because a lot of it was class 1 and 2 rapids.  We also saw a billy goat. When we got to camp there were a lot of people there and we found a spot where we could camp.  After we set up our tents, we went swimming in the river.  It was nice and cool in the river but it felt good after awhile.

 The next morning we got back on the river.  That day was an easy 10 miles.  It wasn’t very exciting that day.  We got to camp in like 3 hours.  I was chilling in the river for like 5 hours.  It was boring but Andrew, Tim and I found a lot of blue rocks in the river.   The camping area was really tall grass but it made a nice cushion under you. 

Wednesday was a killer.  We did 18.5 miles and my 2^nd degree sunburn (blisters!) from yesterday and the tension of my life jacket made it hurt.  We saw lots of cows, some deer and an otter.   We hit a lot of class 2 rapids that day.

The very next day was very short like 10 miles or so.  We learned how to surf the rapids but I couldn’t do it because of my sunburn on my shoulders.  When we got to our next campsite we saw that a tent was already there.  But we set up camp anyway at the other part of the site.  Then that night the wind kicked up and their log in the fire pit was catching fire again cause of the hot embers on it.  One of our adults went to look around. The owners of the tent and stuff over there finally showed up. But that day was over in a lil bit.

Friday morning the guy with the canoes picked up all our gear except certain items we were told to keep with us and we put inner tubes inside the canoes.  We were gonna do several class 3 rapids that day.  To start the day off, Andrew and his partner tipped over.  But we got to Balcony Falls and we got to land and looked at the rapids and the channels of where we could go.  The first one was easy as 1, 2, 3.  The next rapid was pretty hard and we went down a water fall.  That was fun.  Then the last one was hardest maneuvering wise.  It took a lot of work to go through Tim and mine’s channel. After we did that we had 1 mile of flat water.

That was the end of the canoeing trip and we left that night and got home at midnight.

Shelby