Get up get outta here

Sunday morning arrived after a relaxing Saturday that included much reading, some playing games, and a couple of nice meals. The morning started early as we were up about an hour earlier to start the final three days of the trip. After rallying us all around for the start of the day the brief was read aloud as to the objectives our group needed to meet in the next 3 days. The objectives were to have 8 people from our group climb three different mountains on Monday, for the campsite to be set up and a meal by 8:00 P.M. and then for everyone and everything to get back to our homebase by 1:00 P.M. on the last day. We as a group were also then to nominate leaders among us for this excercise. My name was nominated to lead the group, a little surprising to me since I have never proper camped and if I have it was not with 50 some people in a rugged area. My camping has existed of Angie taking care of everything or of us being soaked in lame tents at youth weekends, certainly not the kind of camping that we were looking at in this location. After some more discussion by the group then the leaders came back and stated stated that I was the leader, Rach and Tim were the assistants with other people on the leadership team as well. The morning was filled with decisions, ideas, discussions, questions, answers, packing, planning, shopping, a bit of relaxation, traveling and attempting to catch my breath. Our group was amazing in that they did all that they could to help, worked together as a team, were self starters, and did all tasks asked of them. To be honest there was much that we had to do in order to get ready to camp with 57 people in the mountains. If you have ever done that kind of thing you know how much planning and effort there is that goes into that type of adventure. The difference here was that we had a couple of hours to make decisions, had to start packing, and had to think of all the details needed to be thought of for that venture. For the most part the morning went smooth and the first load of people were off to the campsite by about 10:30, the remainder of the day did not go quite as smooth, you'll find out soon with the next couple of posts. later
earl