My main two roles are facilities/maintenance and the wilderness program. I have spent a significant amount of time this last year trying to organize and create a true maintenance program for YAA. This summer however I spent a lot of time teaming with Jim on the program side of camp, which meant in a lot of ways the maintenance program was put on the back shelf. It did offer me more chances to interact with and train our staff. Which was very exciting to me since working with the summer staff is the main thing I look forward to about our summer season.
This summer we brought Tim Ries, who was one of my campers when I was counseling at Deerfoot, out to be the main trip leader on our summer trips. Unfortunately due to lack of interest none of our trips went out. My Dad had booked a flight to come out and be the speaker on our father/son trip and since we had no campers we decided to take a exploration trip into an area that camp has not used in a very long time for its backpacking trips.
We had three goals on the trip….discover a useable route for five days in the Hyalite drainage, try out all that I have been learning about lightweight backpacking, and enjoy each others company. After changing our route three different times as we discovered new terrain, we succeeded at all three goals. In the picture to the right you can see how small our packs are for being out for five days. The total weight of my gear, food, water, and everything I am wearing was 26.5lbs on our heaviest day. I was able to get my Dad and Tim’s packs down to about 30lbs. Needless to say we all enjoyed being able to pick up our packs with one hand. And our trip was a great time of conversation as well. Dad had put thought and preparation into directing us to scripture and discussion of our Christian lives. It was a great time of conversations that were drawn out over the whole day. The views were incredible, the wildlife a little scarce, the weather perfect, and time with my Dad...priceless.
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