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LENHOK'SIN SHAKEDOWN HIKE #3 - JULY 15, 16, 17 Eight Scouts and Scouters return to the Shenandoah Nation Park for more backpacking adventure. This was their third and final shakedown hike. The weather was perfect, no rain and temperatures ranging from the low seventies to mid eighties. |
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| The crew is shown here posing at the first White Oak Canyon falls overlook. It is Saturday morning and they are looking for a natural water slide on Cedar Run. | |
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| Camp site #1, Friday night (above left) was perched on a steep slope but had enough room to squeeze the four sleeping quarters on a small flat piece of terrain. Upper right, the crew experiments with Freezer Bag Cooking with a hearty oatmeal breakfast Saturday morning. | |
 On the way to the water slide, "Rhubarb" is called. A code word to alert crew members that their advisors want them to break out their maps and show them where the crew is currently located. Here all crew members correctly identify their position as the lower White Oak Canyon falls. |
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 Above, fisherman Erik exams a feeder stream for signs of trout. He would really enjoy a break from dehydrated food. |
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| The crew finds the water slide and hurriedly determines who will be the first to venture into the cold water. | |
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| Above, crew leader Daniel K takes the plunge and rides the slide into the refreshing pool at the bottom. | |
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| Kade, traveling too fast for the camera to focus splashes into the pool. | |
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| Then Daniel M warms up the cold stream. | |
 All Scouts and Scouters enjoyed the slide and pool. Here Mr. Leonard, Kade and Daniel exit the water. Movies of the waterslide (these are large files and maybe problematic in downloading, please be patient): Daniel M Daniel K followed by Kade Erik on the slide Karl followed by Josh Mr Leonard and Kade
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| Camp site #2, Saturday night, was another near perfect location near the intersection of Weakley Hollow and Old Rag Fire Roads. | |
 Sunday morning experiments with Freezer Bag Cooking continue as cooks establish an assembly line for individual meals. The stove on the left is making a Bakepacker gingerbread cake, the MSR Reactor in the middle is boiling water for the Trail Rice main course, and the stove on the right is baking a yellow cake. |
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 Crew members fuel up in preparation for the last five miles up Old Rag Fire Road to the awaiting trucks. |
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| After a 0600 reveille, the camp is packed back up, breakfast cooked, eaten, clean up complete and the crew is ready to be on the trail at 0830. | |
| THIS ADVENTURE WAS OUR THIRD USE OF A SPOT SATELLITE MESSENGER | |
 In this picture, SPOT shows the route from the trailhead (point #5 top left of picture) traveling from the south parking entrance to Skyland, west to the AT, then south to Cedar Run Trail where the crew spent Friday night (near point #20). Saturday the crew took the horse trail connecting Cedar Run Trail with White Oak Canyon Trail then south to Cedar Run Trail and the water slide near point #50. After lunch and a swim, the crew took Berry Hollow and Weakley Hollow Fire Roads north to camp site #2 where Weakly Hollow and Old Rag Fire Roads intersect. Sunday morning the crew muscled up Old Rag Fire Road (roughly 2,000 feet in 5 miles to the trailhead.) Total distance traveled approximately 16.7 miles with 2,000 feet down and 2,000 feet up. |
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