On the weekend from Friday, July 16- Sunday, July 18, The Venture Crew went on an 18 mile, 2 night backpacking trip. The Hike started at trailhead 29 in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness.

Johnson Lake

We stopped for the night after hiking about one ¾ miles in. The spot that we stopped at was a clearing that had many trees that we had to move from the area before we could camp there. In the morning, we woke up and got right to breakfast and getting ready to hike. We began hiking then turned onto trail 111 three miles from the trailhead. Five miles from the trailhead, we stopped for lunch at Johnson Lake. We then hiked up to rainbow pass where we stopped for pictures before the final descent to Rainbow Lake.

Rainbow Pass – Continental Divide

After hiking down to Rainbow, we set up camp, fished, and then ate dinner, desert, and jiffy pop (which was not a real success). The fishing was good and we caught several fish, some of them were pretty good sized. After spending the night at Rainbow Lake, we began our trip out. The first mile of uphill to Rainbow Pass was difficult, but after that, it was downhill for three miles to Johnson where we had lunch again. After lunch, we hiked the remaining five miles of downhill to the car.

Crew 2911 visited Missoula Emergency Services, Inc. to tour their facilities and ambulances.

Crew 2911 enjoyed the afternoon folfing at Blue Mountain Rec Area.

The Crew’s Google Calendar has been updated!

All of the activities we scheduled for our meetings are now shown in
the event names of each crew meeting.

For example, next week’s title is “Crew Regular Meeting – Land
Navigation”.  

Please check out our upcoming activities; we’ve planned
through the beginning of the school year.

If you have things you’d like to see on the calendar, please let me know.

Parker
President

5 Venturers, 2 Advisors, and 1 guest met at Westside lanes for a evening of bowling. We bowled a friendly game and generally hung out. Michael took the lead for the evening.

Lars, Chris, Michael, Ronnie, and Patrick set out on a Saturday Morning left for the Upper Gold Creek Trailhead at about 11:00. During the hike we had some difficulties do to having to cross multiple creeks. As adventurous Scouts, we didn’t cross them with out getting wet. Later on the hike we found ourselves with 4 feet of snow blocking our path. We pushed on, trekking through the late season snow on the trail. As we made our way down towards the lake, the snow got deeper and deeper. We turned around with in a quarter mile of the lake for the prospect of a dry camping spot. We trudged back to the top of the ridge and made camp in a small saddle. Camp was set, bear bags were hung, and food was cooked. A great game of “Go-Fish” was played. During the night a pack of wolves wondered near out camp. Their prints in the snow the next morning surprised everyone. After camp was tore down and everything packed up, we retraced our trail to the car. – Lars (Activity Chair)

Boulder Lake from Boulder Point

Mission Mountains from Boulder Point

GoFish at Boulder Point camp

Our regular Crew meeting time has been moved from Tuesdays at 6pm at First Christian Church to Mondays, 6:30pm at First Christian Church. This new time will allow us more time to conduct regular Crew business as well as more extensive activities!