Sombeech
06-16-2018, 09:44 PM
I just got back from 4 days out on the Prairie, it was a new experience for me helping push one of 15 handcarts full of luggage across 28 miles of rolling prairie hills.
I came back with over 3 hours of drone and GoPro footage, so hang on a bit. I'll post a little here and there as I git R dun.
I was expecting something a little more "rough" but all of the amenities were supplied; 10 traveling latrines, cooked meals, walkie talkies for each handcart team for constant communication, FREQUENT water and snack breaks on the trail, and everything except for the physical walking was pretty much just handed to us. There were plenty of support vehicles that would haul most of our stuff in trailers, and a side by side that would travel at the tail end of our group for support. The trucks would drive on the dirt roads and would criss cross our trail every few miles for potty breaks and lunch.
I was expecting a little more of a rugged experience, but then I kept in mind that you just can't do that to hundreds of kids that may have never camped outside before. You've gotta be prepared for the teenage girls that will pretend to faint because they do not want to be there, and the kid that insists on going home the first night only to be brought back by their parent the next morning.
There were none of the "punishments" like certain teams going without a meal, or randomly carrying other extra people in the carts, or Cowboys and Indians skits in the middle of the night. There were some Native Americans with us on this Trek, oof, that would have been awkward. So it seems like all of those "teaching moment" kind of punishments are either a thing of the past, or we've just got a decent group of leaders who don't buy into that stuff.
In the end, I'm glad I went, I enjoyed it.
Here are a few stills, including one of our camp sites, the average path we would travel, and an old fashioned hoedown from above, or Dosey-Doe. More to come.
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I came back with over 3 hours of drone and GoPro footage, so hang on a bit. I'll post a little here and there as I git R dun.
I was expecting something a little more "rough" but all of the amenities were supplied; 10 traveling latrines, cooked meals, walkie talkies for each handcart team for constant communication, FREQUENT water and snack breaks on the trail, and everything except for the physical walking was pretty much just handed to us. There were plenty of support vehicles that would haul most of our stuff in trailers, and a side by side that would travel at the tail end of our group for support. The trucks would drive on the dirt roads and would criss cross our trail every few miles for potty breaks and lunch.
I was expecting a little more of a rugged experience, but then I kept in mind that you just can't do that to hundreds of kids that may have never camped outside before. You've gotta be prepared for the teenage girls that will pretend to faint because they do not want to be there, and the kid that insists on going home the first night only to be brought back by their parent the next morning.
There were none of the "punishments" like certain teams going without a meal, or randomly carrying other extra people in the carts, or Cowboys and Indians skits in the middle of the night. There were some Native Americans with us on this Trek, oof, that would have been awkward. So it seems like all of those "teaching moment" kind of punishments are either a thing of the past, or we've just got a decent group of leaders who don't buy into that stuff.
In the end, I'm glad I went, I enjoyed it.
Here are a few stills, including one of our camp sites, the average path we would travel, and an old fashioned hoedown from above, or Dosey-Doe. More to come.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jMAMvKJGPYUZgtC_U-VL3-AftCfV5wfa1lyvhSUOUAY998OmzJEx5_tEMy61bvW-H-3UX94NbNiHaLnfiTx4t8PkYIp9z1WrP3dSUMcCEkycv6ukmzn6 O1THM0r-STdDH-E5veKux1M7b78rhYEZsg5x6xlWc8kJWUftkotPPhZVaxDDBfkl f9Erw96wwwlpl7fVBPMNhJau6CrSkJ2rq4gP2SKXGnRXKDY8oM ZudYjttr1Qd_1_bqgGpd99DECxtLNC90I3CQ2Io5e2Isbsw8-0b1KEs0Hu3ujYVW7QoDaBN2wBWNLnXepf_6ZwrEu_0rwJQaIB8 hkDusN3MoIxn9PwfqFeNCHRhhkD4DBciabe2RTj5ZVavZy1Ce_ DT35Y4adPHPOKKId5IcFaPrpipT2ck3OZQXJGKKzmGeJ9y1uAN Uw_s8c-RhwFmJuVGMMdPpsG5vHCM2uUHTPxjs1cbms4o50_4fo-UpT4fg_u8W3aiChNZKRCHRxG0f2DaeWxOi-SNDF0jAJ-cU-kRV4gKV83sWJJ9VozkZZWEFk2kkIsnnq_UNg01EV4HJJBtBoIT mqbQE0MIXpCAWfmKe_vQU7k7U2OGQOgqRb6LwZA3ryNRPgG4gp E_j7aiRE9T0USiAI72toMjdOzxK_YGWyxX2KxmAdXIK5_Bw=w1 920-h1080-no
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