Re: [RR] Rapture or just too busy to rangernet?

[Jim Hufferd]

Caving, huh?  Sounds like fun, just don't get lost like Tom and Becky did. It was in that general area wasn't it, Mark?   Ken give us the low down on how you were able to pull this off, sounds like a lot of fun and some accomplishment thrown in for good measure.  Perhaps if I started now, we could get something off the ground by next year.  A couple of my right hand staff members resigned a couple of weeks ago for personal reasons and it just takes time to find the right person for the right job.   Our Sectional Winter Campout is mid-January up in the hills of Auberry close to the San Joaquin River.  It's the best of both worlds as snow is about a 1/2 hour up the hill, but where we are at it's just cold.   Until last year we always went up into Sequoia National Park and camped in the deep snow at about 7,000'.  Some real nice snow caves have been built there.  One year we came across a igloo that had been built just a few days earlier.    But so many came down with a "allergy" to snow that our numbers dropped quite a bit, so we had to re-think it all and came up with this plan of attack.  It's really odd as we have actually had more at our Winter Campout than at our Fall.  Too many leaders decided that it was just too cold and couldn't handle the snow, my outlook is that they just didn't prepare well enough.