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Non americans on the list
Barbara Butler Long (blong@ed.scetv.org)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 21:02:12 +0000
OK, Mark, I'll make some noise.
I am an associate adviser to a high adventure post in Columbia, South
Carolina. This past weekend we were supposed to go backpacking in the
Blue Ridge mountains but the temperature was going to 30 degrees below
zero Farenheit with the wind chill factor at night so instead we went
camping at the beach (Atlantic ocean) and it was only about zero- talk
about some serious searching on the boys' part for firewood. Saturday
morning we watched the sun rise over the Atlantic and watched huge
groups of pelicans and all sorts of water birds. As we ate our lunch on
the beach nestled in the dunes to stay out the cutting wind, we also
were graced with a wonderful performance of porpoises gracefully playing
in the water. For supper we all enjoyed a fine pineapple/cherry cobbler
cooked in a cast iron dutch oven on the enormous bed of coals carefully
tended all day by one of our members. This was the first trip for this
brand new post and it was not high adventure in the classic sense but we
do have some stories from this trip with which to begin a history. To
sum it all up, we did have fun-drank a lot of hot chocolate and apple
cider, too. And we also found out that raccoons still visit even at
below freezing temperatures.
Barbara Butler-Long
Post 221
Indian waters Council
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