June - Black Rock Mountain and Tallulah Gorge
We left the Scout Hut around 6:30pm on Thursday. When we got to Blackrock Mt. about 8:30pm. We had a Friday 13th type of scare. We came up on an ambulance on the dirt road down to the campsite that was running but no one was in it. Eerie! Ended up the medics were walking out in the woods checking something out.
We set up camp, if you call putting sleeping gear and backpacks in an Adirondack setting camp up. On Friday morning we could not hike the gorge because it had rained. Instead we hiked the James E. Edmund Trail, a 7.2 mile loop. We stopped at Look Off Mountain where we rested and ate lunch. It was a really hard hike, either up or down the whole way. But the blooming mountain laurel and wild azalea made it worth it. It was cool and damp the whole way.
Saturday morning we sayed at camp and trained on advancement the first year boys. Then we drove to Tallulah Gorge and went down to the gate to the gorge. But we couldn’t go in because it had rained. But we did “hike” about 1000 steps! When we got back to camp, we were exhausted. We left Saturday about 2:00pm and got back to the hut about 4:00pm.
Jeremy Thornton
1st Class Scout
Historian