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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