Service Project / Bogardus Overnight review

  So, we met at noon on the 24th, and started at the Roche Harbor Reservoir Trailhead, hiking in and looking for trash and trail debris. We didn't find much at first, and I thought I had forgotten my camera. After getting into the DNR lands, we ran into our first downed tree. After a bit of creative thinking, we got it cleared, and moved on. Bjorn was a great help in leading us to trails that we might otherwise have bypassed; he has lived close to the property in question fro some time. The last time we did the hike, it took us a little under 2 hours to make it to camp. This time, it took us just over three hours, but we removed 5 trees from the path, clipped and trimmed other vegetation, and paused to let 4 horses with riders pass by.  Stephen, Christian, Corwin, Julian, and Taylor accompanied Bjorn and myself on this portion of the campout.

  After arriving at camp Adam showed up, followed shortly thereafter by Peregrin and Tom. We all pitched our tents, and folks started to work on building a fire and cooking dinner.  Adam and Bjorn worked on the "magical floating hamburger that threatened to eat Manhattan."

Overall, excellent food, good company, and as I had been up since 3:30am, I wound up going to bed fairly early. 


In the morning, I got a rare chance to sleep in a bit, and did not get up until 5:30 or so. 

I wanted to be up in case anyone wanted help with breakfast, but no one was awake yet, so I sat and read until the sun started to come up. The sunrise was beautiful! Later, I woke Adam up to make sure he got to work on time, rode with him to the gate to let him out, and then walked back to camp. Slowly, the guys started getting up, making breakfast, and packing up camp.

All in all, an excellent trip, and we only got back 15 minutes late!!

thanks to everyone who participated....

until next time

Yours in Scouting, 

Michael J. Perren 

 

Trail Service Project and Bogardus Overnight

Add this to your calendars guys!!

Bring: Raingear, food (individual cooking,) water (cooking and cleaning,) cooking utensils, a stove or other method to assure your ability to cook, overnight gear (tent, sleeping bag, etc,) ten essentials, and a spare garbage bag for trail trash... We will meet at the Scout house at noon on Saturday Oct 24, returning to the Scout house at approximately 9:30am Sunday Oct 25th. see you there!!  


Michael J. Perren- --