Mike Harris Campout Sept. 2017

Kiowa helps Heber catch a fish

This was actually the funnest and easiest campout we have ever done.  We only had Gabren and Kiowa spend the night.  Chase came up for dinner and to fish but left around 10 pm.  We were bummed that we didn't have the majority of boys, but it was still fun.

 I brought Quinn and Andrew brought Heber and Henry.  They all had a blast even though only a couple brought a fishing pole.  If they weren't fishing they were spearing or just playing in the water.  We had a spare fishing pole in the scout trailer and the boys that didn't have poles shared that.  Only a couple fish were caught.  

We found some new entertainment around the fire with sprayable sunscreen which turns out to be quite flamable.  We roasted hotdogs and had chips for dinner and then for breakfast cooked sausage and eggs.  Kiowa and Gabren had to leave really early for football practice so we had to get up really early but we had breakfast done and camp put away in time.

Andrew catches a log that has somebody's lost bobber on it.

All the boys on the pier thing.  You could see quite few fish down there.

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