Sunday, March 28, 2010

Camping at Medoc Mountain

My Boy Scout troop went camping at Medoc Mountain on Friday 19th to Sunday 21st. It was a great experience and I enjoyed it. First, on our way, we stopped in Hollister to eat Friday's dinner. We arrived at the campsite and set up our tents and unrolled our sleeping bags.
Then, we warmed up by the fire. The fire was so hot that if you sat in front of it, the front of you would be scorched while your back would be frozen. I had to rotate to feel comfortable. The fire would flare up for 5 seconds and be extremely bright if you threw leaves in. My friends conveniently figured this out by grabbing a whole bunch and throwing them in. It became so bright that it was like looking at a lightbulb. Some of the older boys accidentally dropped some hand sanitizer on one of the rocks that bordered the fire pit and lit it with a twig. The hand sanitizer had blue flame coming out of it.
When it was getting darker, we went back to our tents and slept. It was an interesting night for me because my feet were higher than my head and the sleeping bag was so large that my feet were cold.
We cooked pancakes, and sausages for breakfast (the oatmeal was optional). I helped Michael build a fire which was a house plus lean-to. Then, we had sausages for lunch. To cook them, we wrapped them in tin foil and then placed them over the charcoal. I think that roasting them over an open flame would have been more fun than just putting them on charcoal. All of our meals were very good.
One thing we did was a service project where we picked up trash that was on the land. There was cool stuff that we found like a container of "Pure Ground Black Pepper" and a bottle of "Sunrise". We also found a rusty chair with no seat and a pair of shoes.
I like this campout because I did a whole bunch of stuff like pitch the tent and pack my bag alone.