Awesomev Summer Camp in the High Uintas

We had a great camp this week. All the boys worked hard, had fun and learned and grew in the last 6 days. We had lots of outdoor fun and some serious times that brought us closer to God and each other.

 Bright and early (5:00am) loading up

 Ready to go and the sun isn't even up yet

 What is it I am not supposed to forget?

 Your Buddy Tag!

 go get and AED and call 911

 help has arrived

 (sorry the camera has weirded out)

Another amazing campfire program!

 Getting ready to shoot

 Where is the safety thingy again?

 found it

 Split the card

 Nick's a pro

 Caden and Seth

 Conner and Chris

 Carter trail historic site

 fish trap worked

 caught this nice one

 Calvin and Saul are thrilled

 Gutting the sucker

 Hi Chris

Getting the low down

 I choose archery

 Remembering the buddy tags

 Seth Conner and Nick heading out with the Lady Ranger (I thought she would be pink)

 Caden's big'un

 Chris' last one

 27 fish in all for the troop

 blood and guts

the sunrise hike was a spiritual quite time

some larping with another troop

Gritty but fun (part 4)

Well we did it again. We went to the Little Sahara sand dunes and had a camp out. You would think we would learn.

Our favorite spot was reserved by some other stake of troops so we had to go to the white sands area and endure people four wheeling though what I though of as our campsite.

It was sunny and cloudy and warm and cold and calm and windy and rainy and haily but more than that fun and as always GRITTY!

That's spike our scorpion friend. I can't remember which back pack he rode home in though but I'm sure that he will turn up.

Not really a camp out more like a CAMP IN

Hey well we had our first camp out planned for third week in March. That's perfect camping weather right. Spring started 3 days ago and it was in the 70's. Well on Friday morning I didn't feel good about going camping. A few hours later it started snowing. By the afternoon there were a couple of inches on the ground with more in the forecast and I didn't think that we wanted to start our camping season with a cold, wet and miserable night at willow park followed by an afternoon of service for the food bank. We decided to have a camp IN instead of a camp out. We cooked our foil dinners in my back yard and then played basketball in our driveway and then played games and watched a movie until about 10:00. Everyone had a great time. We didn't ruin any tents or gear and no one will be getting the flu for a week and a half. Here are some photomographic highlights:

 Gus burnin' some biscuits

 Hayden keeping the leader's chair warm

 

 Jase's turn to burn

 

Gus and Jase got the ball rolling with some speed

 Leaders vs. Scouts

 It was a pretty close game until Brother Allen put the camera down and joined in.

 Brother Patton was well guarded

But still breaks free

 Monopoly, there are few who can still be friends after playing this game.

 But they did it

Some Texas rules version of Monopoly. I think.

 Collecting food bags for the food bank in the snow

 Being Happy

About 40 bags were collected and donated to the food bank. What a great day!