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was complete. And thanks to
a night of hard work and the
rhythmic pulse of raindrops,
sleep was hard to resist.
AT DAWN, SEVERAL TENTS
showed the effects of the
night's unrelenting rain. Lines
that had been guitar-string
tight on Friday night sagged
on Saturday morning. A few
boys discovered small puddles
inside their tents, but no one
grumbled.
Everyone crowded the
space under the two dining
flies to stay dry during break-
fast. Patrol boxes and stoves
formed the perimeter of one
dining area, while the other
was crowded with camp
chairs. The adults found time
to toast English muffins with
cheese and what had been
mislabeled as sausage patties.
They were actually the ham-
burger patties for that night's
dinner. Oh, well.
The older guys filled
up on oatmeal, while the
younger ones went with
some "don't tell Mom" fare:
chocolate Pop-Tarts and
sour-cream-and-onion potato
chips. Yum.
The 71st edition of the
pilgrimage began early
Saturday morning, and
Troop 88 arrived at the
Mount Rushmore National
Monument on time at 8
a.m. There they joined other
troops in what became a
colorful sea of rain gear.
Heads poked out of oversize
garbage bags, translucent
ponchos billowed in the
breeze, and water beaded off
of an orange-and-black nylon
Harley-Davidson motor-
cycle suit (the famous Sturgis
Harley rally takes place about
an hour from where they
were standing).
Troops rode in a shuttle
to the monument site for
the awards ceremony before
hiking one of four routes
back to their campsites. Each
route is named for one of the
presidents whose images have
been preserved in granite:
George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln,
and Troop 88's assigned route:
Theodore Roosevelt. The
longest path is 15 miles; the
shortest seven. Troops rotate so
that after four years of making
the trip, boys will have hiked
every trail and received all four
segments of the pilgrimage
patch to prove it.
When the event began
in 1938, workers were still
carving Teddy Roosevelt. And
just like seven decades of
young men before them, 450
Scouts from four states gath-
ered to celebrate Scouting in
their area.
By kick-off time for the
awards ceremony, the rain and
fog had dissipated enough so
that the leaders and Scouts
could get a clearer view of the
presidential faces. When offl-
Acting senior patrol leader Chris
Morgan, left, listened as Scoutmaster
Jerzak gave a few tips on how to set
up a dining fly in the dark. For the
most part, though, Jerzak was a silent
observer, letting the boys solve minor
problems on their own.
january-february 2011 * SCOUTING
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