Day 11

8/26/14

WOOOOOOOOO! Day eleven! Seems more like day one-hundred eleven. Today started out with a cold windy morning. After we got bear bags down, breakfast eaten, cleaned up, and camp broken, we packed our dry bags and set sail for our next campsite, but, not before a quick orienteering lesson from our own Anthony Killion. The paddle started out slow and zig-zaggy, at least, for John and I. Turns out I’m not so good at keeping the canoe on a straight path. Thankfully we stopped at about two miles to switch places in the canoe. However, we stopped on the windward side of an island, which Jeff told us is the wrong side to stop on. Jeff seems to miss an opportunity to tell us what we’re doing wrong. After that we headed down the river a couple more miles to our campsite, which is a pretty legit campsite if you ask me. Instead of a narrow rocky bank like the last one its flat, sandy, and BIG! We’ve got enough room to spreads out our tents so far apart we can’t even hear each other. Also, our tarp construction skills have gone from amateur to nearly pro after Greg’s tarp construction lesson. I’m pretty stoked to be here from another night. As far as academics go, we had a couple of few hours of class today. Jeff had us open our manuals and take a sort of personality test to help each of us learn our most prominent decision making style. Turns our most of us are product orientated which means more concerned with getting things done and done right. Haley and I are more idea orientated, Cassidy and Tiffany are people orientated, while John stood all by his lonesome in the process orientated group. It was very enlightening to get an insight into peoples’ thought processes and what they are most concerned with when working with a group of people. I have attached a sketch of the view from our beach.

-Curtis Stark