CAMPOUTS

this story was from 1980 when the putz was assisting dan nance in regional camp outs...there were posters hung up all over the camp with pictures of david holding a knife near his cheek and dressed in stark dark clothing with an old fashion scout brimed hat covering his eyes and his criminal smile squinting a sinister smirk...it would be hard to identify this man by the way the poster portrayed him, on the poster was printed,,,just seen at this location and REWARD, WANTED FOR ROBBERY AT THE LAST NATIONAL BANK..A Desperado wanted for many crimes,,,name..slim 'slick' mcevil...."''reward for information of whereabouts...i was turned in by a little eleven year old kid and his reward was a Jumbo Baby Ruth...i got nothin as i stood there drooling over his candy bar,,,i as a varsity scoutmaster took several of these same boys to a camp at blue lake where very igenious activities were developed for the boys...we had a service project where we completely repaired a road leading to blue lake, we had two reasons to do this; 1...we got stuck getting up to our camp and i didn't want to be stuck going home from camp and 2,,, we wanted to serve other campers who might use this same road...we had a scavenger hunt that was timed which covered two mountains, the lake, the camp, and the cliffs...these were the key words to the adventure....jump swing,,,ouch....rock and roll..monument...relieved place...a place you prefer not...it is a clear winner..spectacular frisbee toss...missed service project...fallen mast....main fire...the boys spent hours on this hunt and gave me time to cook an elaborate dinner of beans....often we had canoe races with pelts being handed off to a scouct in a canoe and they would race these pelts to the other side of the lake...we had a blackpowder shoot where our homemade shot of powder would be hammered down the rifle barrel and shot at rotten turkey eggs....if a person missed the tarket then that person would have to suck the rotten eggfrom the turkey shell...we had order of the arrow dances with the monsen boy doing the dances and doug to cook us a dutch oven dinner