Day Five

It was cold last night, or at least it felt that way sleeping on grass and leaves under a space blanket. We were up about 7:30, all with some sleep and a little stiff from the accommodations. We hit the trail about 8:30 for the remaining part of our journey.


This part of the journey was only a few miles, but was more technical. There was swimming and several places with chest deep water.




Then towards the end there were the hordes of people moving upstream. When one of the young men first sighted people, he yelled out, “There are people.” Then again, when you spend the night in the forest without your sleeping bag or sleeping pad, the sight of people indicates civilization. We soon rode the bus to the park headquarters and then drove to Springdale to a sandwich and ice cream shop. After eating something besides trail mix and cliff bars the stories began to flow out of the boys. They were reminiscing on the events. With a couple of scoops of ice cream, there was lots of laughter and story telling. This will be an outing they will not soon forget.