Osawatomie Boy Scouts Canoe in Canada
Nine members of Osawatomie Boy Scout Troop 106 left for Bissett, Manitoba, Canada on June 20 for a 6-day, 5-night canoe trip on the lakes of Manitoba, Canada.
Those members were Jerrod Bechtel, Jasten Bechtel, Chance Jolly, Tanner Schwalm, Branden Pace-Guilfoyle, Anita Pace, Paul Bechtel, Cindy Schwalm and Galen Critchfield.
During the two-day trip to Canada, the groups stayed overnight in Sioux City, Iowa, and Winnipeg, Canada, at Presbyterian churches and arrived June 22 at the base camp in Bissett.
On Thursday, June 23, the group boarded two water planes for a 15-minute ride to Scout Lake where the canoe cache was located. The second portage consisted of climbing up a boulder at a 45-degree angle and hiking through woods for about four blocks, putting the canoes back in the water and paddling until arriving to the first camp site for the first night.
This would be the routine for all five days, canoeing about 10 miles each day. Each day the group would have at least one or more portages. One day they had to navigate through an area called “beaver damnation” which was about a mile long followed by an area of about the same length of moose muck. Moose muck is the top 1 to 3 feet of soil in a lake that is basically mud covered by little to no water. It also had a strong sulfur content.
Some of the animals and objects they encountered were loons, bald eagles, beavers and picture graphs left by earlier generations of Native Indians.
Everyone got to do some fishing, catching some walleye, northern pike and small mouth bass, that they prepared and ate for dinner.
On June 30, the group left base camp for home. The first night was spent in Duluth, Minn., on the shore of Lake Superior. The next day they headed to Des Moines, Iowa, stopping in Minneapolis, Minn., at the Mall of America en route.
Short URL: http://osawatominews.com/?p=1388
Posted by admin
on Aug 17 2011. Filed under News and Updates.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
You can leave a response or trackback to this entry