Camping!

I love camping.

Last night I set out on a vaguely structured camping trip.

Paranoid about failure or arrest I was a bit wary at first.

There were nine of us. Most of us lived together in the dorms last year and a few we adopted.

Our destination: Oyster Dome.

This is the same hike that I did with Mark and Shona last week.

I was a little concerned about potential freezing, snow and wretched conditions but my fear was for naught as it was a clear, beautiful and dry day.

*Colin preparing for flight at the top of Oyster Dome*

The way up was a bit tough, especially for those who were carrying things like tents and 24 packs. I just had a bunch of pants, so i did not have too much trouble.

*Sunset*

We finally made it to the top and looked for a place to set up the 8 person tent.

But, as there was an abundance of trees, there was no such place.

We resolved to just sleeping on the ground in sleeping bags.

We made a fire, ate hummus and were merry into the night.

*The gang: Kyle, Riley, Evan, Meghan, Colin, George, Nathan, Austen*

We had some small adventures and managed to stay away from the cliff edge for the most part.

The night was quite chill for sleeping, especially in my "warm to 55 degrees" sleeping bag. But I survived, we all did.

*Antics. Austen, Meghan and I*

Saturday we got up and indulged in a little fire, played catch phrase (good thinking Nate), ate what was left of the the little, random food that we brought, packed up and set off down the hill.

We stopped off at the bat caves on our way down. There was a cool view looking up form the bottom of the giant rock face that we had just spent the night at the top of. But i left the jumping around on the slippery rocks and logs to the others.

We got to the bottom happy to see at out cars had not combusted, been towed/stolen or had suffered any other traumas.

It was a highly successful trip and it was really good to see the gang again.

An event to have a sequel for sure.