Klondike Derby, January 2014

Klondike Derby at Ensign Ranch. Event was Saturday, January 18. We arrived Friday evening. 

First order of business - make fire.

Success!

Second order of business - cook food.

Third order of business - go to bed.

Saturday morning. First order of business - get out of bed.

Second order of business - make fire.

Third order of business - cook food.

Success!

Waiting for Klondike Derby to begin.  What's missing from this picture?  SNOW!

First event - first aid.

Making a stretcher.

Fixing broken arm and leg.

Carefully placing victim in stretcher.

OOPS!

Making a stretcher, Take 2.

Success!

Next event - lashing 3 poles together to make a tall flagpole.

Ty does the guy lines near the bottom.

Success!

Doing our patrol yell before the next event - frying an egg.

First order of business - make fire.

Success!

Second order of business - cook food.

Success!

Third order of business - eat food.

Success!  We were 3rd place in this event.

Fourth order of business - put out fire.

Next event - Mail Run - deliver bag of mail to yonder pole and return ASAP.

Success!

Next event - Ice Rescue - tie short ropes together and throw to

Bryce, who is 40 feet away on a frozen lake.

Tying short ropes together.

Throwing the rope, Take 1.

Bryce reaches the rope with his handy flagpole. (My water bottle survived.)

Tying the rope to the sled.

Success!

Next event - everybody puts one foot on the small chunk of wood and lifts the other foot off the ground.

Last event - knot tying - everybody has to tie a randomly assigned knot.

True to his name, Ty ties his own knot and then shows other people how to do theirs.

Jamal completes the hardest knot of all - the dreaded bowline on a bight.  We won FIRST PLACE in this event, and second place overall in the New Scout Division.  SUCCESS!