Showing posts with label snowcave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snowcave. Show all posts

Monday, March 3, 2008

A snow death with skills















I went snowcaving with the scouts over the weekend. Somehow I'd managed to avoid that experience back when I was a scout - we winter camped in cabins with electricity. This was the real deal though. We started digging the caves for our young men's activity on Tuesday and then finished on Friday. Talk about work! We had to help the boys a lot too and didn't finish the caves till nearly 10 P.M. Then we lit a fire and started working on dinner, finally collapsing into bed about midnight. I was worried about being cold and brought two sleeping bags - one slid inside the other. No need to worry though - I was too hot most of the night - took off my hat, unzipped the bags etc. We woke up Saturday to a beautiful sunny day and so I showed the kiddies a few of the mad sled skills Kurt taught me!