When I look to the stars...: Paddle like crazy

The last few months have been pretty crazy with Explore students here at camp. Explore is the outdoor education and leadership college program from Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta, Canada. The program partners with Camp Bighorn to do a variety of skills and courses here at camp for half of the school year. On Sunday, we woke long before the sun rose to say goodbye to the forty-something students who had been here the last two months. Gabe and I, being facilities people, checked their dorm rooms one last time, to make certain that they had cleaned and tidied their rooms. Then we all stood in the cold, dark morning and waved goodbye to the bus pulling away.

A quietness has spread over camp in the evenings with the lack of students. But our days, at least for operations staff, have begun more pressing projects. One of the top priority projects is to get the snowcat and the two military trucks into working order for when the students arrive back in January. The trucks and the snowcat allow us to transport students up to Siegel Pass where they do their winter skills such as tele-skiing, snowshoeing, survival and avalanche training.

Today I wanted to share with you all some photos I took back in September during the college students skill time. One afternoon, I headed out with Dianna, the office manager at camp, and we took pictures of orange team canoeing and black team kayaking as they all came through Cascade rapids down the road from camp.