Patrol Leader Finding A Geocache
The Troop decided to get some hiking in for a little exercise and just to get outside. They thought why not go ahead and knock out some Geocaches while they were at it. So Oak Mountain State Park seemed the proper place to go. To get the heart going they started out by going up the yellow-white connector. I personally believe that is the hardest, steepest hill in the park. Once they survived that they swept on over to the Blue Trail and started knocking out Geocaches. The Scouts found several Geocaches during the hike and covered just a smidgen over 5 miles while they were at it. They all seemed to enjoy the accomplishment of finding the caches and covering 5 miles.
We only had one exciting tumble that I got to see the end of. I heard a crack and a yell behind me and whirled around in time to see a Scout going feet over head. As his shoulders hit the ground and his feet came over his shoulders, one of his shoes came off and went flying through the air. He rolled a couple of more times, as we were on an incline, before he came to a stop. Once he proclaimed that he was okay I couldn’t help but laugh at the image of that shoe flying through the air. After I told him what I saw he was kinda proud of the fact that his tumble was hard enough to send his shoes flying. He had tangled with a dead tree and the tree won.
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