It’s Sunday and we have Internet again, so it’s time for another blog post.
I’m not putting pictures on this week. I don’t have many from the week — there are a few scenery shots from other things that we did, but I’ll put them on next week with the pictures from this coming week.
Family Focus had three families come to the camp for four days. It was a nice slow week for most of the staff. After a week of 110 people, we had only 40 or 50. The speaker was Pastor Greg Huffman from Roanoke, VA. He was excellent. Several times he covered things that I wanted to talk about with the SALT kids, but didn’t think I’d have time. He also repeated some of the things we’ve been trying to teach. It was nice to have his experience and credibility with the SALT kids.
There is a big fire about 20 miles southwest of camp. On Friday morning it was 7660 acres. You can read about it on Pinedale Online. It has been spreading smoke over the Green River Valley, and since the camp is at the top of the valley, sometimes the smoke was pretty thick.
On Friday night we hiked to the cliffs in the dark. That was fun. Some of the boys were trying (often successfully) to scare the rest as we hiked up. At the top we got to watch the moon rise from behind the ridge. We were trying to see the fire, but it was behind the ridge to the west.
On Saturday we hiked to the Kendall Warm Springs down the ridge from the camp. The springs are home to the Kendall Dace, a type of small fish that live only in the short creek from the springs to the Green River. The creek spills over the travertine into the river in several waterfalls. The creek water is in the mid-70s all year, while the Green River is probably in the upper 40s by now. We also made the hike earlier in the week with some of the campers.
We’re going rafting in Jackson tomorrow morning. The trip will be on the Snake River and we have the dinner trip, so I’m looking forward to a steak, and Mel is planning to have trout.
The next camp week is Camp Meeting (sometimes called Family Camp). It starts on Wednesday and goes through Saturday. We are anticipating as many as 250 people at the campsite. Dr. Bob Jones III is the main speaker, and Chuck Crabtree and Dan Hadik are also speaking. It should be fun, but it’s going to be busy.