Course Logistics and Adjustments

Here is a report on the Encampment Coordination meeting this morning.

Since we know that the participants for our course are almost all from the Lehi area, the course coordinators are providing a truck to haul gear. This is a 53’ tractor trailer.

The truck’s primary purpose is to carry course gear from Camp Maple Dell to Mountain Dell. Our quartermasters will need to coordinate helping load the Maple Dell equipment on Friday afternoon August 6th.

There will also be considerable space for participant gear in the truck. So, our participants should bring and load their gear on Saturday from 2:00-4:00 pm at the Lehi West Stake center. There will be orange tags and sharpies to label participant gear. We have 116 pre-registered participants as of today. Transportation to the course is the responsibility of each ward or participant. Our designated time for participants to load the truck for the return trip is 11:00 am on Saturday August 15th. Again tags will be provided.

Since there are three other courses on the mountain with us, we needed to work out some conflicts. For example, our plan was to have the Rendezvous on Friday afternoon. We can’t have access to the rifle or archery range on Friday. So we will need to move the Rendezvous to Thursday instead.

The other challenge is that many of the participants transportation is provided by participants in the Wood Badge course. The Wood Badge course doesn’t end until 2:00 pm on Saturday. Consequently, we’ll need to have something constructive for our participants to do until 2:00 pm on Saturday.

The council will provide porta-potties for our base camp as well as some portable showers. We should probably plan on building some additional portable showers as well.

They have also designated where they want us to put the mud-pit. They are planning to build a lake in the future and our tug of war and mud pit will need to be at the future lake site. If you type the following coordinates into Google Earth you will be taken right to where I believe this will be: 39° 29’ 55.73” N 111° 23' 09.44” W.

There are trash dumpsters about two miles west of the course on the road. It is suggested that we take a garbage run daily. Quartermasters and service squads will need to help with this.