This past Saturday brought a mix of weather and some challenging fire building conditions as we headed out through clouds, then sun, then sun showers, then rain on our way to Silver Lake. It turned out to be an amazing day of skills building, group bonding, and some yummy cooking as the Red Foxes practiced the skill of fire building and backcountry cooking. Some highlights from our day included:
- Singing disney songs on the way to Silver Lake
- Exploring the lake and forest when we arrived at our destination.
- Setting up a quick tarp shelter at the campground to keep us dry. The girls snapped right into action!
- Discussing the steps to proper fire building as a group and brainstorming best practices/resource use at various outing locations. (ask your daughter what 3 things you need to make fire and which materials work best)
- Breaking into small groups at our chosen fire building location to practice making our own mini fire structures.
- Problem solving when we found mostly wet wood. (ask your daughter what tricks we learned for fire building in the rain).
- Collaborating as a large group to make a fire over which to cook. We learned that role designation and organization is an important skill to practice when building a fire in a group! (Ask your daughter what role she played in the group fire building process)
- Cooking stuffed apples, popcorn, and marshmallows over our warm fire. YUM!
- Learning how to use a camping stove and making warm tea and cocoa to keep spirits high!
- Learning proper LNT techniques for putting out our fire and distributing the "evidence".
- Playing a quick round of Spiders Web before hopping back on the bus to head home. Turns out time flies when you're backcountry cooking!
-Ending our day with a heartfelt closing circle with a sharing of gratitude and one skill each of us learned over the course of the day.
-Arriving back in town to sunny skies and waving our goodbyes until our final outing in June!
Enjoy the full album of the day here.
