12:09 am, Tuesday/Wednesday
Today flew by, it was nice. The guys started shooting at the shooting sports and we got to do leader swim training. It was more sunny today but not terribly hot. The afternoon was spent carving a golf ball, yeah a golf ball. We have been challenged to the Chimyo Classic Putt-PuttGolf Tournament, all balls and clubs must be made from materials found here at camp. My putter is quite nice if I do say so my self, found the perfect smooth-faced piece of sort-of-rectangular granite, lashed to a pine branch shaped and fitted just right. The dilemma of the ball was a hard one, wasn’t sure what to use, rope, clay, wood, and without a good knife I finally decided to raid the Woodcarving calss and use their rasp and formed a fairly decent “ball.”
The staff challenged the adult leaders to a trap shoot, to which they were very confident at their chances of winning. Even though I only got 4 out of 6 of my shots, I think we surprised them my beating them handily. Even if they gave their camp director a repeating 12 round magazine and several shots at each clay. It was just fun to watch her shoot.
The real highlight thought was the astronomy observation we just got back from. Not a cloud in the sky, and up here where there is no light-polution the boys could identify several constellations. What I would have given to have Google Night Sky with me. There are so many tools avaiblre to us now that can help us ineract with the natural world, you don’t have to be the uber-nerd who has obscure knowledge that you have to share to impress, now everyone coud have it at their fingertips, and even a novice stargazer could get a lot out of one observation. We waited for the moon to rise so we could look at it through a professional telescope, which was rad. The saying “feeling small” does not capture it. Saw many a satellite.
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