Angel Basin Scout Hike 4/10-11/2009

On Friday, April 10, and Saturday, April 11, 2009, we went on a backpacking campout to Angel Basin. The boys that went were, Porter S., Ian E, Austin, Porter D., Ian P., Brandon G., Nicholas, Caleb, Brandon J., Ben, Spencer, and Tyler. The leaders who went were Brother Bradshaw, Brother Martinez, Brother Severtson, Mr. Prost, Brother Evans, and Brother Gale.

  We left to go at 9:00 and got there at about 12:00 then we hiked down. The hike was around 5 miles long and we had to cross the river more than 20 times. Most of us were already getting tired at the sign which was around 1/4 of the way. We went about 4 miles then stopped to see the indian ruins in the caves that were around 600 years old and it was cool.

Then we started hiking again and were getting really tired. Brother Bradshaw said we were almost there when there was still like a whole mile left.

Then we finally got there and we set up our tents and all cooked our own food and played around a little and went to bed. It started raining pretty hard and most people's stuff got wet even though we had the rainfly on.

The next day we were all sore but we had to start hiking out at 8:00. It was still raining hard and we had to put all our stuff up. We started hiking up and it was really cold and we got super tired but we all wanted to get home really bad so we only took one 2 minutes break and hiked the rest of the way. Porter S. and Caleb both ended up falling in the river and most people got their shoes pretty wet. But we still hiked pretty fast. We were thinking it would take us 6 hours but it took us a little less than 5 hours for all of us to finally get out. When we got out we all ate pretty much the rest of our food even though we could hardly move our hands because it was so cold. When we were finally warm again we were all happy and then we left soon after that.

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Spring Camporee 3/6-7/2009

On Friday March 6, and Saturday March 7 we went on a camporee just outside of Casa Grande. The boys that went were Porter S., Porter D., Ian P, Brandon, Nicholas, Ben, Spencer, Tyler, and Caleb. The leaders that went were Brother Bradshaw, Brother Weed, Brother Austill, President Derrick, Brother Severtson. When we first got there we set up our tents and our flags. then we had spaghetti and meatballs with frechbread for dinner. Later we started planning our skit. Then we went to the opening camporee ceremony and watched a lot of different skits and performed ours. Then we came back to our campsite and had s'mores and went to bed.

The next day we woke up and cooked omelets with plastic bags. We had to put it in boiling water for a few minutes. Then we went and did all of the contests. There were many different ones first we went to there was different papers with different stories and we had to tell how to help out the person that gets hurt in the story. Another on we had to start a fire and boil water with only one match. On one we had to look at 100 different scouting items and remember as many as we could.

Later on that day after we did all of the contests we had to start taking down our tents. We did that and all had sandwiches for lunch and cleaned up everything then left. We had to leave early so we never got to learn our scores.