Cedar Glen camp from a youngsters view part 18

July 24, 2013

Hey guys , today was lots of fun! First we built a real live fire!! Like a real fire out of sticks and wood.It was sort of chilly then so awesome timing! Next we made our way to an awesome place called..... High ropes ! Then it was time for another ...... raft race!!

Fire!!!

There was a disastoraus fire today and I am really lucky to be alive. I hope you the best and children of the future please follow one simple rule of don't play with fire.....  

Just kidding! We built a real fire and no one got hurt. So first, we were sent to the forest to collect some kindling(twigs)then we brought them back. Then our counselors put some paper in the fire pit and made a little teeepeeey out of the little twigs. Next we took a match and set fire to the paper. The flames engulfed the paper in a matter of seconds but luckily it caught on to the the twigs and tada fire! 10 minutes later......... our supply of twigs was starting to run out. We were sent out to the forest again to get bigger logs and then we came back and made a bigger teepeey with the big branches we had collected. No worries tree lovers we only look for dead, down and dry. It was starting to get warm so we sat around the fire and tossed tiny sticks into the flames. It was hard because we were too strong and  couldn't figure out exactly how much power to put into each throw.

Giants ladder

So, today at high ropes we did giants ladder again where we have to climb a giant ladder. So, the ladder was 8 beams tall and as high as a house and a half. The objective was to climb the giant's ladder as high as possible while it was swaying and all you had was a helmet and a harness to protect you. The steps were wooden logs with cable at the edges to bind it together. The gaps between the ladders kept getting bigger as you climbed higher. This is like the order:

1. 0.5 meters
2. 0.75 meters 
3. 1 meter
4. 1 meter and a quarter
5. 1 meter and a third 
6. 1 meter and a half
7. 1 meter and three quarters
8. 2 meters 

So, a guy named Nick and me teamed up and got to the fourth ladder well, I did and he got to the third. We would have made it higher where it not for time issues.

Everyone only got 2 minutes on the ladder so pretty much everyone got to the third or fourth one.

Raft racing

So , in raft racing we had to make our own rafts out of wood and string that is about the size of a adult's palm. So first we headed to the  shady forest were we collected lots of  small sticks.
Then we went back to a shack were we got some string. After that we got our sticks and string and 15 minutes later comes pure perfection! Behold!!!

As you can see it is clearly better than my last raft.

 I know because my new one finished 2nd compared to my last record of 9th!

Swimming

It was the usual playing some volleyball cannonbolting and this time when I pencil jumped I actually touched the bottom with my hands and feet.Yeah!

Live young

have fun

sleep happy