Day 4 - Tuesday:
40° @ 6:45 am, 18% humidity, sunny
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First mountain sickness casualty

Still very high fire danger.  Breakfast at 7:45 with breakfast taco and fried potatoes.

After the start of classes, Mr. Grimes hiked to his van and drove into town and  Mr. Luff drove up 11-mile canyon to do some trout fishing.

Walking back to camp, Mr. Grimes stopped to catch pictures of Steven E., Blake B. and Bryan L. on the rock climbing wall as they worked on the Climbing Merit Badge.

At noon, OA members Jared D., Chris R., Eric L. and Mr. Grimes ate an early lunch of hamburgers, chips and beans so they could attend an OA meeting at the Kiva to go over the OA call-out campfire in the evening.  Too bad we didn't have letters from the Last Frontier Council Ma-Nu Lodge so our new OA guys could have gone through the call-out.

Not much later, back in the campsite, Josh A. shows up as our first Scout to come down with altitude sickness (he wasn't the last).  After getting some food and water into him, he started feeling better and returned to his activities pretty soon.

The afternoon was cloudy and it started cooling down.  Dinner was spaghetti (let's see ... that was the third time in four days wasn't it?).

The closing flag ceremony was the best all week long.  Troop 168's OA members (adult & youth) performed a very impressive ceremony: Mr. Mingus, Mr. Rhoades (a sash borrower), Mr. Grimes, Dr. Brumbaugh (another sash borrower), Chris R., Jared D. and Eric L.

After flags, all the OA members helped at call-out, lining the path to the Kiva in the cold, with no jackets or caps ... and the staff ran late.  The ceremony and costumes of the dancers and call-out team were great.  Ma-Nu Lodge could take lessons here.

After the campfire (which was only attended by the one troop with members being called-out), Dr. Brumbaugh held another one of his "Brumbaugh Corner" sessions.  Thanks to Josh, his topic that night was mountain sickness.  Then off to bed with cold and cloudy skies.

NEXT: DAY 5