Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Latest and Greatest

Last week I had the good fortune of taking out a 3 day trip with a group of 12 year olds to Algonquin Park. We had a good time even though the weather tried to put a damper on things every chance it got.
The rain stopped of course as soon as I got the tarp set up. From left to right this is: Jordan, Mike, Jackson, Bennett "Cypher" (an LIT who was in my small group), James, Ned, Alex, Simon and Jeremy "Omni".

After 4 portages of various lengths that all seem to take too long we got to our destination. While scoping out a campsite Simon and I ran into a cow Moose and a calf. The calf was on the other side of a small bay and began to swim towards us and the mom but promptly turned away when the mom told it to. Unfortunately at the last portage my camera got put in another canoe.... crap. A beautiful sunset followed the evening rain.


I noticed as soon as we entered the lake that something was up. The water was way too high, like almost 3 feet too high and it was beginning to kill a bunch of trees around the perimeter of the lake.

Here we are paddling through "the forest" because the water was so high.

I took a glance at the map the next day and we went to find the problem... This is the before picture.

This is about a half hour later.

Team demolition walking on water.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

such goodtimes. man i forgot about the whole "canoed through a forest" adventure, and the moose the night before. What an awesome time!

Bennett was slightly tired and hungry too, which was ligit, we all were, but you could just kind of tell because of the way he spoke with such intensity to the assembly line of tortilla makers while preparing supper "mince the cheese!!!" ahhahaa goodtimes...we were all quite desperate for food.