On Target

In July there was an event called On Target. This year it was a bigger deal than normal because it is 100 years of scouting.

President Monson, the Prophet, signals from a mountain top near Salt Lake City to hills around him. People on those mountains signal back, letting him know they got a signal. In turn, they signal to other surrounding mountains. The point was to signal coast to coast, and Canada to Mexico. They will get a report in another week or so to find out how it went throughout the continent. Here is David's varsity scout group that participated. They picked Iron Mountain from the mountains available.

Here is Eric shining the mirror into Seth's eyes.

Here are the large mirrors that they put together on tripods to signal to mountains around them.
They could signal over 200 miles away.

David said that this signal is from Mt. Soledad, signaling to let them know they received our group's signal.

The guys said that next time they will go to Mt. Soledad since Iron Mountain was almost 100 degrees that day.

Still a happy group.

Boys playing around.

Don and a telescope.

The guys got so hot. Eric had hiked in Levis. He was so uncomfortable he hiked down in his underwear. Seth had gym shorts under his pants, so at least he was decent:)

Here are the guys at the bottom of the hill. They were so hot and dirty when they were done!!

They had a pretty good time. It happened to be the first hot weekend of a cooler than normal summer. Go figure!

I think it was a pretty cool event just thinking about our prophet starting it all, and people connecting with each other throughout the continent. Maybe that's cuz I didn't have to hike it!! Good job, guys!