Today was our second long mileage
paddle. Just like our last long day, we did 12 miles. To make this happen we
were supposed to be paddle ready at 7am. Unfortunately it was raining out until
almost 6am, this along with communication issues among the new tent groups lead
to us being 30 minutes behind schedule to start the day. I got the privilege of
being Ryan’s partner today. He and I had a bit to talk about due to our shared
interest in scuba diving. I also got to talk to him about his time spent at
Elements in Utah and living out of his truck. I at least think that we had a
good talk, even if he would say otherwise. Part of what made today's paddle so
long was that we attempted to to go see some pictographs that were a few miles
out of the way. We got to the only place they could have been to find the rock
face covered in vegetation. So much effort put in for no reward, oh well,
that’s just part of the adventure of it all. After this we set our sights on
camp. This was an adventure in and of itself. The LOW’s weren’t able to find
the exact location of the campsite in the maps or in the Missinaibi book, so we
had a bit of a scavenger hunt looking for it. We looked at two potential
locations before passing the actual campsite. Jeff had to yell and tell
everyone that we had passed it. While everyone was unloading their gear, Cody
and I accompanied Jeff and Ryan to their separate campsite location on one of
the smaller islands off of Rabbit Island. Once we got their stuff out of the
boats, Cody and I returned to join the rest of the group for camp set up. Once
everyone had finished set up and lunch we all went to Jeff and Ryan’s island to
do our lessons for the day, since their site had the better sun setting. Emily
and Mariah introduced their Outdoor Education topics during this time. Ryan
also did a lesson on “the 10 essentials of camping.” Once done with the lessons
I got a little nap in while the LOW’s had their meeting with Jeff and Ryan,
since they needed one person to stay back and wait. We then had a couple hours
to ourselves to relax and have dinner before we did our debrief. The debrief
got started at about 6:30 since Tommy and Emily had to fill out an incident
report. After debrief we got to ease out of the day by hearing Alex’s life
story. It’s crazy to think that I get to spend this amount of time with someone
who could one day be an Olympic Archer. After a lot of laughs Alex’s story and
our questions came to a close and Ryan and Jeff departed, leaving us to
ourselves for the rest of the night. After watching an amazing sunset, we had a
small meeting with just us students. It was basically a repeat of stuff, just
in a less formal capacity. This brings us to a close of our first day under
student LOW’s.
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