It was wet….
For those of you who don’t know, I went camping this weekend. Whilst all of you were dry in your homes, whacking off, I was freezing my ass off learning about surveying. Naturally, my tent stayed dry, I wouldn’t have it any other way. The whole day was spent looking forwards to “the plotting”….and even more so, a warm shower.
The plotting: The ploting was kind of an ominous thing, due to the mystery surrounding it. We all had our protractors and rulers, and knew that at the end of the day we would have to use them, but for what? No one knew…As all things in boy scouts, it was divided up into sations (they wouldn’t have it any other way…) The lack of communication betweent he stations was astounding. The professional at the first station just told us to write some numbers down (said we would need them later….) The second guy cleared things up..a little bit. He told us that we were surveying a plot of land, and that it would be a triangle. No one told us how to write this numbers down or anything…just wrote them down. By the last station, we were finally informed that we were making a pentagon. Alas, came the time to plot, and so we set to work. We had brian taking out notes the whole day—Bad Idea. He just had a bunch of numbers that he knew nothing about. Eventually, we got 3 sides of the figure plotted….Then brians reliability was lost. In the end, steve and I drew in the other two sides, and I checked all the math. We had the most accurate plot they had seen all day, so we became the model for others to copy off of. ( The rest of the troop would not have the badge without us )
Despite the weather, I would have stayed another night. All my gear was fine. It is always the case at these things for all the big, spoiled, car-camping troops to wimp out first in the littlest bit of rain. It is kind of funny. We did not make the decision to leave until we were ordered to leave by the district. hehe! We were like the last troop to break down, and probably the fastest. Those other troops wouldn’t last 10 seconds on a backpacking trip.
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