My Scout section was out camping at Manning Park last weekend. (pictures:
http://www.fotothing.com/albums.php?action=viewphotos&albumid=3801 )
We arrived on Friday to find 50 Army Cadets and all their associated leaders busy moving into Lone Duck 2 (with all the gear that the military brings with them) and 3 Scout groups already settled into Lone Duck 1. The parking lot was like Highway 1 at rush hour… you couldn’t move anywhere!
We unloaded and chose the area we were going to camp…. The meadow area was undisturbed, except for a little detail. There were about 4-5 feet of snow on the ground! We dug and dug and dug, until around midnight we were all finally in our tents, cozy, with the outside world at about -8C.
Saturday morning was chilly and a light snow kept falling.
By late Saturday afternoon, the weather had warmed up and it was now rain. Yeach. We persevered, and all the Scouts did a great job at handling the weather. It was tough. Dinner was a welcome, warm addition.
We spent a bit of the evening in the shelter talking to some of the other scouts, but then called it a night at 2100 – we were all bagged.
It rained A LOT on Saturday night, with some real winds whipping it around all night long. By Sunday morning, all the snow was gone from the trees. We had a good breakfast, a scout’s own and due to the logistical problem of our planned departure time (the cadets had two buses that were going to be in the parking lot at noon!) we opted to load up and get out of dodge without having lunch. A wise decision.
All in all, I’m really glad we didn’t go the weekend before – the dangerous roads just were too much, although I WOULD have liked it if it had been a bit colder and stayed SNOWY the whole weekend while we were at camp. C’est la vie, I suppose!
Cheers!
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