First Climb of the Year

Birch and the boys were guests at the scout campout this weekend at The Feathers in Vantage.  Sounds like it was crazy busy with the weather warming up but they all had a good time.  Nate just advanced from the Deacons and Coop is just shy from being a Deacon - Tyler and Birch came along in order to have the skills and equipment. 

Coop isn't much of a camper but after we finally kicked him out of the door and he got into the great outdoors -- he ended up having a great time.

There were about fourteen scouts and leaders that camped together.  They had a fun time playing catch.

Nate is just finishing up his Camping merit badge and so he was in charge of breakfast and lunch.  Birch says he did an excellent job leading and working along side all the boys.

Breakfast burritos and Costco muffins for breakfast

Birch is so good with all the boys!  He gave years of his life to the scouts and when he was released as scoutmaster our kids were all sad.  I'm thankful that he has still made it a priority to often accompany them on their campouts so they have those good memories with their dad.

Coop scaling The Feathers

Nice job!

Birch cleaning up a route.

And kudos to Tyler who took all these pictures.  He really is quite the camera man!  Tyler was a great help in setting up climbs and belaying for hours.