Well, here I am in Pine, CO, again. Yes, there is snow in the high mountains! I'm so excited, but a little out of breath because of the altitude. Expecially since the day after I got here, I went up to almost 10,000 feet on a Scouting Adventure. We slept outside in a "bivy" sac. Actually we hardly slept all night because we were a checkpoint for the Night Navigation Course at the Annual X-Games Competition for the Venturing Crews in the Boy Scouts. The Crews are older scouts that come to the High Adventure Base here in the Colorado Mountains to challenge their skills, learn teamwork and most of all have FUN! We stayed hidden in the trees waiting for the boys to find us. They were using maps, a compass and GPS. Our spot was a waypoint preprogrammed into their GPS and they had to find their way around an 8-mile course in the dark. There were about 4 checkpoints where adult leaders were positioned to make sure there were no injuried, lost or otherwise among the Crews. There were about 5-6 boys in each Crew and about 12 Crews total. The next day they had several other competitions: mountain biking, kayaking, wilderness First-Aid, black powder rifle shooting, bow and arrow, outdoor cooking, climbing and rappelling. I ejnoyed going to the different events and learning about scouting's High Adventure Programs.
~Mary Castang
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