At the end of July Steve and I participated in a Pioneer Trek with the youth (12-18 years old) in our Stake. We spent nearly a year planning and preparing. This was our second Trek, the first one we went on was in July of 1999. There were only young women on that Trek, I was a "Ma" and Steve was one of the support team. For this Trek, I was on the planning committee as one of my responsibilites as a Stake Young Women's President. Originally we were going to be in a support type of position so I could hang out with all of the young women but at the last minute one of our "Ma's" got sick and was not able to go. So we stepped in as the Ma and Pa. It was a challenge but lots of fun. I have many stories about things that happened on the Trek so I'll work on adding a few as I have time. For now, here are some pictures:
This is what the handcart looked like before we loaded it up....I know not very big, huh! We had to fit enought supplies and gear for 6 days for 12 of us.
This is our loaded handcart as our "family" is getting ready to start "trekking". We were Ma and Pa to 5 boys and 4 girls and we had an "Uncle" as part of the family. Our Uncle was a great help to all of us.
The next few pictures are of us pushing and pulling the handcart. We traveled on several different road services and most of them were like the one below.......
VERY, VERY, VERY DUSTY!
This picture was snapped of us when we stopped to rest along the way.
This was the lake we camped by the last night of the Trek. We had some special and fun experiences here. Two of the youth were baptized and later in the afternoon we had thunder, lightening and rain!
This is a picture of us all as we finished the Trek. We arrived at the parking lot of Corbett Snow Park to find family, friends and lots of good food and cold drinks.
