Last year Troop 323 did a 20 mile day hike at Escure Ranch; a 20 sq mile sheep ranch south of Sprague Lake. The purpose was to satisfy the toughest requirement of the hiking merit badge; a 20 mile hike in one day. This year I took inspiration from an article in the Spokesman Review, titled the City Wandered. The author did a 3 day, 53 mile backpack trip starting from his home near Northtown Mall. We left about 6:40 am on a holiday! We drove north to Painted Rocks (indian petroglyphs) on the Little Spokane River. We hiked downstream to the confluence of the Spokane River then up the Spokane River to Latah Creek, up Latah to the South Hill for a total of 20 miles in approx 9 hrs. Thanks to James Clark, Howard Ashby and Michael Whiting we had an awesome experience and a lot of laughs, besides getting much better acquainted with our fair city. James showed us graphically how to avoid needing first aid, Michael taught us that Abe Lincoln never drank liquor nor smoked and walked three miles to return a few penny overcharge, Howard will yet teach us a fun song on the next outing.
Zac, Curtis and Daniel epitomized manly men!
Well done Troop 323.
2 comments:
That looks so cool! I wish you were my scout leader. Cool beard too! Grrrrr...
I wish you were one of my scouts!! You're ambitious and tough.
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