This past week was our Young Men's high adventure. We took six boys ages 14-18 up to the Jewel Basin in Montana (near Bigfork) and backpacked for 6 days ( I only was able to go for 3). It was an awesome time, all the boys did great and hiked a total of over 30 miles. There are 27 lakes in the basin and we would hike to a lake, set up camp, then do day hikes to peaks from there, hike to another lake, camp and repeat. We caught a lot of fish, saw lots of wild life (deer, moose, mountain goats, rock chucks, and 6 teenage boys of course) it was grizzly country but luckily we didn't run into any. The trail head that we started at was called Camp Misery which we didn't know why, but found out at the end of our adventure. When we arrived back at Camp Misery to head home we were all tired, but excited and in a good mood because of our accomplishments. The ranger that stays at Camp Misery changed our mood quickly when he wrote us a 250 dollar ticket. It turns out that one of the boys accidently left an empty egg carton (egg shells in it) in our utility trailer when we left to go out backpacking, the ranger wrote us a ticket for inproper food storage, since it is bear country, so that put us all in a somber mood for the drive home. Other than that the whole time was an adventure of a lifetime.
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2 comments:
I'm glad you were able to have a little R&R for a few days, Tom. You are a good role model for those boys. I especially liked the picture of the mountain goats.
Dude, your high adventure looks cooler than ours is going to be. We're hiking to the top of Mount Taum Sauk, which as you may know, is the tallest peak in Missouri (also called Misery) at 1,772 feet. There are not mountain goats there, just some alley cats that wander up from town. By the way, do you have a gear list you could send me? I need to get one to our boys.
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