When we got to rendezvous the roads were muddy and everything was wet and covered in snow. we decided it would be smart to set up camp before it got too cold. After setting up we did service project which involved building a monkey bridge. We used our mad pioneering skills to lash some timbers together. we strung ropes across the timber frames so the camp could cross the massive river (more like a trickling stream) to get to the knots station where we learned to tie some knots.We went to the campfire program where we watched skits about mountain men, John Colter, and Lord Bayden Powell. We then went back to camp for the night. We woke up on Friday and went to the flag ceremony, after wich we went to learn mountain man skills. The different stations were musket shooting, archery, fire starting, tomahawk throwing, atalatl thrusting, knot tying, and scrimshaw.
Shane Guymen did the best out of all of us at the musket shooting station. Colten Wilson excelled at archery.Thomas Million started a fire quicker than the rest of us, and Curtis Sorenson was dang good at the hawk throwing. After we we learned our mountain man skills we went to the mountain man dinner where we ate some sort of stew, peach cobbler, and a side of buffalo tongue. Later that night they had the trading blanket were all the people who brought stuff to trade sat around a tarp to trade different miscellaneous items. Joe Ribera got a sweet national frozen foods cooperation hat for a sacagewian dollar and some shells.
On the last day of rendezvous they had the John Colter run where each team races through a series of different challenges where they have to use all the skills they have learned at rendezvous in an attempt to win some fabulous prizes. There was also an event called the cardiac run which was the same thing only for the leaders instead of the boys. Our own team 368's Joe Ribera competed in the cardiac run he didn't win but at least he tried. After the runs our team went back, took down camp, and went home.
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