Girls Camp

Girls Camp

Our priesthood helped not only with setting up the tents, making fires, and shelter, but they helped also with entertainment. I don't know who told the priesthood to bring candy, but with each shift one of the priesthood leaders showed up with candy. The first full size candy bars for answering his trivia questions correctly. He sure kept the girls entertained while I met with the rest of the leaders and let them know what was going on. The second day another brother showed up with more starburst as the girls finished shooting!
Our group picture at the sign for Riverbreaks! The leaders and YCL's have on blue shirts and the 4th year girls yellow. We insisted as the leaders that the 4th years (leaders and girls shirts) all say
"I survived Riverbreaks" The girls were so excited to read that the last day after they had turely survived 8 miles of hiking and two nights getting soaked in the rain. My shoes were so covered in mud that I threw them away on the last day.
In the back of this picture you can see the tarp shelter that the priesthood built for us. They found long logs and used roap to put it up. We were so greatful!

Our great fire pit that the priesthood set up for us!
The hike the first day was down this dirt road that was not even visible from the main road until you started walking down it. It looks nice and neat here but once you have almost 30 people walk over it it was sure slippery muddy by that back of the pack.

This year I was in charge of the 4th year High Adventure trip for our stake. Myself and the First counselor worked on this trip for more than 6 months! The whole thing was put together from scratch and amazingly went off with almost no problems. The first problem was that we were supposed to have a porta potty pulled on a trailer from camp to camp so that there would be a bathroom at the campsite. Ooops! It got canceled and we had to make due with a walmart emergency porta potty in a tent. (FYI a walmart porta potty ment for emergencies for a small family doesn't work so well with 20 young women) it broke by the second day and we ended up tossing it in the dumpster along with the tent it had been set up in. (Who wants to sleep in the porta potty tent after that!). The only other problem we had was all the rain and mud although it was also a blessing in that it kept away the bugs for the most part and less ticks! I was also nice that it wasn't muggy hot! So all in all it went great. My partner borrowed from her school 20 GPS units which we had the girls program with 11 different points which they were to go to . some were just numbers where we had hidden the day before camp small plastic boxes with "treasures" in them, accompanied with scriptures and quotes from general authorities. Others were the shooting range where the girls were taught to shoot one shot 22 rifles. We even had a few get a number of bulls eyes, and our camp sites. With out the gps units it might have been hard to find these points as we were wondering around a hunting reserve with mowed trails, but with so many trails moving in and out of each other many not on the map it might have been pretty hard. The girls did seem to have a great time. And we had the best priesthood anyone could have ever asked for. Our origional plan was to have the girls sleep outside under the stars. When we realized how many bugs there were we decided we needed tents for tick checks everynight and to get away from the bugs a little. Boy were we glad for the tents too when it rained every night we were there. The priesthood went ahead of us with the cars and set up tents, started chopping firewood and getting other shelter avaliable for us when we hiked into camp. The second night they even cooked our chili and the corn on the fire for us. We were so greatful to them for helping out so much. The girls did get to set up tents back at the main camp to air them out as most of them were still pretty wet from the rain the night before. We had a great time and my family survived without me for the week. (Barely if you ask Zach) : )