The Friends of Deckers Creek Youth Advisory Board traveled to The Mountain Institute’s Spruce Knob Mountain Center on June 8 for a week of leader development and team building activities. Eleven YAB members and group advisors made the journey back to West Virginia’s highest point following an amazing FLOW camp experience in 2008.
FODC and TMI staff, Nathan and Kevin, worked to coordinate the camp, and TMI assisted FODC with match funding. TMI group leaders Emily and Jeff planned 5 days of outdoor activities and reflection including a 2 night backpacking trip, a challenging hike to the picturesque boulder field (watershed boundary!!), survival skill team-teaching,…
My son came home from college to visit for a couple of weeks. He had just moved into a new apartment in Chicago, so I was gathering things around the house that he might need. As I was rummaging through my kitchen stuff, I came across a microwave steamer by Pampered Chef which I use all the time – it is terribly convenient and quick! I couldn’t bear to give him mine, so I called my cousins wife, MJ, who had sold it to me and asked if she could get me another one. As we were talking, she told…
