Camporee

This weekend my troop (me jd)went to a district camporee at Monkey Bell Park. The theme was Great Adventure Race. We left Saturday and set up camp. The temperature was surprisingly chilly. Our dinner took a while to cook but it was nice and hot( Kielbasa and potatoes). For breakfast we had burnt bacon, scrambled eggs, and half-done biscuits. Then after a while the camporee people gave some quick brush-ups on orienteering, gps-ins, and canoeing. We would use these skills on a 10 mile, 15-point, orienteering course. My group of me and 2 other scouts left early and we started bush-whacking. As we tried to get to our first point we veered of a little and ended up at point 4. So we tried to find the road that led to points 1,2,and 3. But the road was nonexistent. So we ended up bush-whacking to get there. We found point 1 and tried to reach point 2. We couldn't find it, but ended up a a cool look out tower. After eating a quick lunch we started bush-whacking again for point 3. We never found it. It turns out the first group to go had taken some of the markers. So at that point we were a little frustrated. We had been out there for at least 2 hours with almost no success. So we decieded to head north to the lake were we knew there was canoeing activity we could do. So we bush-whacked up to the lake and got a canoe in. We canoed to the other dock on the opposite side. There we completed a fire building challenge and continued to the next station. There we did the GPS station. We had to find 2 flags using the GPS. It turned out that the origonal coordinates were wrong. So the teams before us had spent hours tring to find flags. Fortunately, on our turn we got the correct coordinates and successfully found them. Then we canoed across the lake again. By the time we got back to camp we had hiked for 7 hours and 11-12 miles. So needless to say, we were pretty tired. Before dark we broke camp and headed out. We all had had fun and felt accomplished from our adventure.