Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Teton Valley Lodge District Event, May



Those present were,
Dalton, Chase, Josh, Kiowa, Robert, Antonio, Bowdy

Leaders:
Aaron, Myself

Kids:
Alex, Brayden

Fathers: Shane


Not sure what dance Shane is doing


The Grand

Camp at sunset


My backpacking tent

The Kearsley clan and our trailer.  Alex, Aaron and Josh



Robert and Bowdy



There's a good chance I'm going to catch a fish!





And here it is

Chewy Chase strikes again









Bowdy still showing off his fish.  Cody Kaufman in the back, Kiowa, Dalton and Alex



Chase brought us deer steaks





Not Chewy Chase now but Chef Chase




They slept around the fire all night









Gmorning Chase

Shane, Cody somehow ended up sleeping in our chairs even though he's not in our troop, and Chase


Kiowa the cook and Aaron

Shane, Dalton, Chase, Brayden



And Little Teapot Josh is born.

Josh had left his phone lying around and the leader of the event found it.  In order to get it back Josh had to sing "I'm a little Teapot" in front of the whole group.  I wish I would have video'd it but it caught me off guard and I wasn't ready





Learning the basics of fly fishing



First aid with Bob Foster



Learning to cast a flyrod


















Did he die?

Kiowa wake up!






Robert hangs on for dear life while riding the trailer to learn  how to tie flies






Brian Berry explains how a fly rod is like a bow and arrow





Learning to tie










and now we get to put our new found skills to the test



Chase, with the help of Brian almost catches one