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Carson Pegasus Winter Camp 2002

Whitecourt, Venturers

Day 1 Friday Night:

So we met up at 4:30 pm on Friday night to pack up all of our equipment and food for the trip, which took us about 15 to 20 minutes to accomplish. We then hopped in the vehicles and headed to the acclaimed Venturer Island. We got to the trailhead and put on our packs for the trek inward. We hiked for about 200 meters and then came to the conclusion that the river is frozen and decided to walk on it and hope to not die. We soon got to our camp after we trekked for about 800 meters more. Derek and Hans then decided to stay and help set up camp for about an hour. We got the lean-tos set up and Derek and Hans then left, shortly after we set up a very early mug up, and tried desperately to get a fire lit. Unfortunately when we bought the matches that said, “Buy us cause we Suck”, so it took us that much longer to light the fire. But eventually we found Skylars Zippo and we were on our way. Soon after we were all warm inside. We talked for about an hour and then we went to pack up our food and take it to the bear pole. Which unfortunately was attacked by a bear and no longer exists in our little venturer world. So we tried our best place it in the air, we only got it 3 feet up but hey work with us here. We decided that we would fix this catastrophic event tomorrow. As for the rest of the night we decided to spend it in bed making fun of how much Scott likes Sofiano’s sister. Good Night!

Day 2 Saturday:

We awoke the next morning to find that we were still alone from our fellow venturers and were as cold as the weather outside our body. Matt soon found that Scott’s emergency blanket was an evil piece of crap and deserved to be burned as it dumped all of its frost on him and made him and his sleeping bag very wet to make for an uncomfortable sleep. But whose whining right! We all painfully got out of our sleeping bags and made a fire. However it wasn’t all that quick cause now even the Zippo was giving us trouble now, but soon after cursing it to death it lit us a nice warm fire. We then broke out the food and began a fiesta, sorry not really, but it was warm of course only the oatmeal going in was. Soon after thawing our feet and other body limbs we saw our fellow venturers emerge from the river, and we then began feel better as we now knew that not every one sold us out. So the rest of our group was here now. So we decided that it was time to do opening, preformed by Skylar and Joel. The Matthew McGrath and Thomas McGrath were assigned to fix the bear pole, which was done very well. We then got the rest of the camp setup with the group. We then were going to attempt lunch, gourmet Kraft Dinner from our top cook Thomas.

Soon after lunch we then decided it was time to warm up and play a wide game. The game was going to be Matt’s new game “Agents” which is a upper class version of capture the flag. We split up into teams and were ready to start. After a few minutes we had to change some of the guidelines to accommodate the island and to keep things simple, it was new game so it took some tweaking, but soon after we were all having fun, well except for Scott who was whining cause we re-started after he was winning. But no problem, I think we all enjoyed to game. After that we decided to go by the fire and warm up, as it was pretty chilly you know like –18oC. It took us a little while to warm up, with hot drinks and a warm fire. Hans decided that he would make a fire a little ways down the riverbed; Matt thought it was to big, Hans thought other wise, but oh well. By the time we were done warming up it was time to cook supper, which was done by the master cooks Derek and Matt. However we would be eating with out buns and cheese as Matt forgot them. But we will just leave that little bit out. So we decided we would just eat them with the buns and cheese. Due to popular belief they weren’t that bad like that. After supper Hans got his fire lit and we all enjoyed its beautiful heat. Not everybody was up to playing another wide game so we just sat around and talked about how much the Oliers rock and how “Team Fag”(Red Wings) doesn’t. After that lovely conversation about the hockey teams and Canada’s crappy government we decided to call it a night. We went to bed and laid there talking about Sofs sister again and had as some good ol jokes and tossed little insults across from lean-to to lean-to which was done for about an hour or so till we all fell asleep.

Day 3 Sunday:

Well we once had to get up to a painfully cold morning, which took us about 1 ½ hours to accomplish. We were all at the fire finally enjoying some hot oatmeal. Then we announced camp clean up to be done after opening, which no one wanted to do as it was way to cold for it, but we did any way. Then we decided it was time to do the clean up which took us a little while, Matt and Sof walked to the parking lot to bring some stuff to make the main walk out less painful. We walked back and soon after we got there it was time to head home, as our rides would be waiting there. We were wrong, they weren’t there yet, well Matt’s dad was there which took him and Scott home, with something to wash.