The campout that wasn't to be.....

Your dad and Brother Farrell Alleman had planned a campout for the scouts last night. We have been waking up to snow on the ground everyday this past week so I certainly wasn't too happy about them going! The plan was for them to leave their vehicles at the Church and then walk with their packs down to Ft. Bridger and spend the night. I'm not too sure of why they had to walk with packs but they insisted it had to be done. It is about 6 miles from the Church. So they would walk there and back the next morning. But when they got to the Church, only 1 boy had shown up so they cancelled the activity. I was happy to hear that! I can't see the reasoning in trying to do a "winter" campout if you don't have to do it! And that is what it would have been....temps were suppose to be around 32 degrees last night and with the ground already saturated, they would have been pretty cold. Dad had some lightweight tiny sleeping bag to take with him. It would have been a very cold night, especially since you can't have any fires over there at the Fort. Anyway, here is what dad looked like all ready to go!