Summer is at full swing in our household. The two older boys spent last week at Boy Scout camp. Camp Parsons was founded in 1919, making it the 1st BSA camp west of the Mississippi.
The boys worked, learned and played hard.
Ethan and I made the 3hr drive to camp, down beautiful Hood Canal, to pick C&N up a day early. I wanted to give Christian one night at home so he could recharge his batteries before heading to Hollywood on a church youth group mission trip. He is currently at this place.
Berry season is ripe and I got strawberries and raspberries in our bellies, in the freezer and cooked into jam. Cherries are also abundant, even more delicious than they are beautiful.
In the mean time, Shawn was off on his own adventure, attempting to climb Mt Rainier. What an exciting opportunity. I had only one request of him; besides being safe of course; that he would take lots of pictures. I made sure the battery was charged and handed him the camera, not realizing that the memory card was still in the laptop. Sigh!!
To say that the weather can be unpredictable on the mountains is an understatement, here is the forecast for their summit day:
Tonight A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a southeast wind 7 to 12 mph becoming south southwest 20 to 25 mph in the evening.
Monday A chance of rain showers
before 11am, then a chance of snow showers. Some thunder is also possible. Snow
level 13300 feet. Partly sunny, with a high near 44. North northwest wind 7 to
11 mph becoming south southeast in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
To say that the weather can be unpredictable on the mountains is an understatement, here is the forecast for their summit day:
Tonight A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a southeast wind 7 to 12 mph becoming south southwest 20 to 25 mph in the evening.
The thunderstorms even crossed the mountains (a very rare event) and woke me up in the middle of the night, which gave me an opportunity to pray again for their safety. Unknown to me, they had weathered the storm 3 hours before, at their camp at 9500 feet. It had been an unsettling experience, to say the least. Unknown to me as well, was that they had summited the day before, Sunday July 8th, and were now on their way down. I finally got his call around noon the next day when they were safely down at sea level and in cell covered territory again. How great it was to get that phone call!
Now, there are no pictures to prove his summit, however, his excitement, exhaustion, amazing stories and blisters are enough proof, and I'm thrilled to have him in our arms again.
1 comment:
Wow, Shawn! Congratulations! We believe you even without the pictures! What a bummer about the memory card, but glad to know I'm not the only one who does that!
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