2012 Day 1-To Ohiopyle

Hello Troop 820 followers. This is Will and Liam here bringing you the daily update of our adventures. The morning started off fairly well, and we managed to make it out on time… more or less. About and hour into our escapade we received a message that Mr. Gr had to go to the hospital. We stopped for a while to allow the others to catch up after switching cars, but we were soon back on track and moving.

We then stopped for a little tree climbing and lunch. While traveling onward Lil’ Blue was trapped behind “Evil Kenivle,” who was a motorcyclist taking his time on the road, while the car pulling our trailer forged on. At some point, the newly nicknamed “Turn Here Taylor” took a wrong turn. The remaining cars assumed that he had taken the correct turn, so we continued on. We finally arrived at the campsite and realized that our trailer, food and gear included, was absent. We eventually found out that the trailer was in northern Pittsburg, or North Dakota (the street thankfully). With the absence of our gear we entertained ourselves with working on the younger scouts Totin’ Chips while I (Will) who had carried my hammock in my backpack, set that up in two high trees like my brother had suggested. After a while of playing on it though, I got a fun surprise when one end slipped off the tree and dropped me twelve feet [Editors note:  more like 5, but it really scared him] onto the ground. Needless to say, my hammock is now much lower to the ground. Finally, after exploring the river near our camp ground, the gear arrived and we could set up camp. Big Blue arrived only 10 minutes later.  We continued the work on the Totin’ Chip and all of our scouts received it. None of the scouts were as good at chopping as Liam.

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