David Journal

Tag: camping

  • Unqualified success

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    For all the campaigns about preferring archery to axe and knife throwing everyone had fun with the axe and knife throwing this morning. For the most part everyone helped with cleaning up and Old Pinery was a decided success with everyone wanting to come back and stay even longer. Now the boys need to turn…

  • A possible “place of resort”

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    I said I wanted a place of resort where the whole family could gather – the place we found tonight, perhaps a tenth of a mile south of Red Creek Flat could quite possibly qualify. It is very accessible while still being acceptably secluded. I absolutely intend to come back here often.

  • Church camps everywhere

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    I am getting more and more excited for our camp at Old Pinery. Today we made reservations for the challenge course, the zip line, and the axe and knife throwing. I also decided to take a couple of hours off work so that we could go up earlier. I also discovered that Camp Haven—that I…

  • Not thrown off

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    Bex got a job offer at her interview today and decided to go out to eat as a celebration. That threw off the schedule after work and I recognize that on other nights I would have let that prevent going to the park but I made a point to get people off their electronics and…

  • A day and a half

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    Today was exhausting in a good way. We had a nice morning at the campsite including cleaning everything up by 9am. I had 5000 steps by 7:30 as I took the time to look all around Spanish Fork River Park while everyone was still sleeping. After we came home I went to get a lawnmower…

  • Rain camping

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    We went camping again today. This time I checked the weather and it was supposed to have a bit of a storm early in the evening before clearing up. Instead it keeps training off and on. Thankfully we didn’t have to worry about roads because we’re in an actual campground. This time Ezra came but…

  • New camping spot

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    We went camping again this week and choose to go directly to the campsite that we didn’t check on Friday last week – the one we drove past on Saturday morning. We found a nice spot further from the road – although there were plenty of campers around we still found an unused fire pit.…

  • Goodbye Ruby … hello Anne

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    Last night we went camping up the canyon – Savannah and the 4 youngest with me along with Bill and Andrew. We had a good time even though we got off later than we hoped. As we drove home in the morning I picked up a message that Mariah left last night where she said…

  • Camping trial run

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    I decided to start the effort to go camping each weekend. I had mentioned it to the boys last week and they were amenable do this afternoon I floated the idea to Laura and she said the kids were enthusiastic about the idea – at least the five youngest, the older girls all opted out.…

  • Anticipation

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    I’ve spent the last couple of days looking forward to my hiking trip this Thursday. On Saturday I did the last of my shopping and packing. At this point I only need to gather a couple of bags from the fridge and fill up my water bag and I’m ready to leave. I’m enjoying a…