Crew Date, Kettle, Spices, and Orienteering
Today’s meeting was quick as we finished off a couple of miscellaneous tasks.
The morning started off with our crew-date breakfast. There was a lot of good food, and it was fun to spend one last time with the Girls' Far North crew before they depart tomorrow. Once breakfast wrapped up, we were also able to give them a hand loading their trailer.
Next, we moved on to knots and orienteering. This part of the meeting was mainly a refresher; we reviewed setting a bearing using a compass and how to read UTMs. Everyone pretty much had this down, so we transitioned to the knot portion.
We had already covered knots a couple of times throughout preparation, so we put our skills to the test. We did a team relay as a warm-up before moving into the final competition. Each person was timed on how quickly they could tie and untie the four main knots that we use on trail (square knot, double half-hitch, taut-line, and bowline). Congratulations to Quinn for winning with a time of 48 seconds!
The last part of the meeting was putting together the Kettle pack and filling all the spice jars. We were able to split up the crew to save time for this portion, and the only conflict that came out of this part of the meeting was deciding how much and which types of salt to bring. It is safe to say that we will have well-seasoned food on trail.