This was a winter night skiing event. Early plans were made to get an evening with a full moon that would rise and set at an appropriate time. We used the WWW to get meteorological data for weather and moon rise & set times by latitude & longitude by date. The boys lined up ski rentals at the University of Calgary (Scout Rate), did the shopping. The Alpine club provided the accommodations at the going rates.
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Started the ski at about 8:00 pm. |
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Skied for what seemed like forever. |
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3:00 am gave up trying to reach the 12 km cabin. |
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Experienced just how good a Mandarin Orange could taste. |
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Boys slept and leaders kept fire going until breakfast. |
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Skied out in great time, downhill is the way to go. |
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Lyle Wilmot & Darren Stone - Event Leaders |
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Karl Burndorfer, Richard McCue, Bro. Cooper - Adult Leaders |
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Daniel Burndorfer, Ezra Lau, Jesse Nelson, Mack Cooper - Scouts |
 Bro. Cooper trying to get the hang of those skis. |
 Ezra showing him how its done. |
 Bedding down for the night, Sleeping under the stars at minus 20, what could be finer. |
Bed time songs to keep spirits up. |
 Hey, no bugs last night. |