Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Orienteering at sub-zero


Well...since moving here I have been pleasantly surprised with how warm it has been. I keep weather reports of many different cities such as Boise, Provo, Alexandria, and Rexburg just so that I can see how jealous I should be of my other friends. I have to admit, aside from our friends in Dublin, CA I haven't been too jealous. However, the past couple of weeks have been a bit colder than my liking.
This past Saturday I went out with the 11-year old scouts to do a compass course and five-mile hike. The weather registered around 15 degrees and with the wind blowing and the humidity, rumor has it that it was around zero. True or not, I was cold and am glad that it is over. The worst part is that the compass course only took about 2 1/2 miles to complete so we wandered around the park facility trying to get the other half of the 5-mile hike completed. We had three GPS devices so unfortunately, we could tell the exact distance we had traveled, and it was usually only a fraction of what we thought. However, despite all the cold weather we had a grand time. We ended up leaving the trail near the end of the hike to follow the boys as they explored the stability of the frozen pond.

2 comments:

Jared I Borg said...

you and your weather reports! Dont try using things like weather reports, science or facts to try and convice me how warm it is here.... THATS JUST CRAZY!

Kyle said...

I especially like the part where you say not to use "facts"...that is great! I guess opinion is a much more convincing argument.