Before I aged out and became a leader I was in the boy
scouts. Yeah, yeah everyone make
their jokes, but in all seriousness being in the boy scouts gave me many
opportunities to show off my skills of being a leader. Many experiences stood out in my mind
but this one example just stuck with me.
We were hiking the appliachian trail a couple years back, my leaders
were in the back letting the kids lead.
It started to become dark out and we still had not arrived to our campsite
yet. So we stopped on the trail to
check the map. We were 4 miles
away from destination because we had taken the wrong trail, by this time most
people would give up and sleep there for the night, not me I took charge with my flashlight ahead of the
group down the trail hanging glow sticks on the trees with the trail markers so
we could make it back to camp.
We
had finally arrived at camp around 11 oclock at night, everyone had thanked me
for doing this because if someone did go ahead of the group to get back on the
trail to find the markers we would have been lost until morning. I thanked god espcically that night for
not giving me horrible eyesight unlike my dad. This may seem stupid to some people but this is what changed
me as a person in the outdoors to always plan ahead and pay attention to key
things in the nature.
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