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Saturday: The troop met at the PoP parking lot, and scouts chose drivers to drive to Albany. When we get there, we loaded up troop and personal gear onto the canoes, and tied them down with paracord, so they wouldn’t get lost in case of a tip. And then we were off. Canoeing isn’t too hard to get a hang of, and scouts figured it out pretty quickly. We drifted down the river for a few hours. Then stopped for lunch at an island which forked the river. After this, we continued down the river, and after some time, reached our campsite. Getting our canoes onto the steep gradient of crumbling rocks proved to be a challenge, as the canoe’s smooth surface would slip down the rocks into the water. Some scouts took 10-15 minutes trying to hoist it onto the rocks in a way that it wouldn’t slip down the hill. Traversing up the hill to the campsite was also challenging(especially carrying the gallons of water taht we brought as troop gear up to the campsite). The campsite had a nice overlook of the river, and a PortaPotty(that wasn’t in bad shape, because not many people travel out to this campsite. Scouts played card games and skipped rocks for the next few hours, and had an early night at 9:00.

Sunday: The next morning, we pushed off from the rocks and set sail to Independence, which we would reach in a few hours. Independence was a nice town, with a bunch of small restaurants, a big field and a playground as well. Only thing is, we had a little incident as we drifted towards Independence, the shoreline in sight. Krrish and Avi happened to be going the wrong direction because there was some miscommunication about where to dock. They went through some rapids, and unfortunately, after getting thrown at a pole near the shore, they tipped over, and some personal gear got lost. Though later, a search party was sent to try and recover the gear, they never found the gear(Aarush’s cot). So once we docked our canoes, and set up our tents, we went out to do a litter sweep service project for an hour. Afterwards, we went out to get dinner, with most of the boys eating at a Mexican food truck, with a few boys eating at a nearby Thai restaurant. Everyone was happy with their food, and as the sun set, we went out to the field to play a game of ultimate frisbee(with all the scouts). It was a fun game, and eventually we went back to the campsite and scouts played Mao and other card games before winding down, at a later time of 10:00.

Monday: By now, everyone’s kind of tired, but we pushed off and within no time, we were at Salem. So after the drivers got here, scouts learned how to do the trucker’s hitch in tying canoes to the trailer hitch. And we were off, a tiring campout, but very rewarding, and a new experience for most scouts