Today was a shorter meeting ,we started off with quickly putting all the jerky onto the dehydrator. Afterwards we migrated to Basecamp. We talked about our new area to explore, Wabakimi Provincial Park. We talked as a group on what we wanted to do, some of the logical considerations like where to resupply, how to plan for solo day, etc. The boys made a very rough outline of what they wanted to do, and we will touch up on it shortly in a future meeting.
Next we went over two knots, the first being the double half hitch. The double half hitch is a sinching knot, so it’s function can being tying a piece of rope to something, ie a tree. Our second knot we covered is called the taut-line. The taut-line’s function is to secure a line of rope, with an adjustable tension, in simplier terms we can use it to adjust the tension on a tarp so when we need it to be hung up we can make it really tight, and easy to take down.
Afterwards we had a quick review of every knot we have gone over so far, and then a quick competition, Ryan won all the marbles!
To cap off our meeting we quickly went over our kettle pack again. They packed it phenomenally. Other guides were very impressed and Program Director Jack Grabinski rated it 9/10! The future is bright with this crew, and all the guys are started to get excited for trail!
Our knot racing competition!
Drawing sticks!