Missouri Current River-Personal Narrative
This was my very first high adventure since I joined the boy scouts, and we were going on a three day canoe trip in the Ozarks. I was so nervous because the trips I had been taking were only day trips, and I ran into a log on one of those trips and almost flipped. We were in deep water too, so no one could help us. So I have had a bad experience with rivers ,but I was determined to conquer the Missouri Current River. I love the outdoors and the creatures that live outside, so I was excited to see that. I was still nervous I would somehow screw up. I woke up at 5:00a.m. and I grabbed my Dry bag and headed to First Christian Church. We left after loading all the troop gear and personal gear into the bus, at seven o’clock. We started driving; we had a seven hour drive ahead of us. We drove there in a small bus that seated nine, not including the driver seat and the passenger. Two
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As we were going down the river there was a log in the river it was barely poking out of the water. Everyone avoided the log except for Sam and Jack. They crashed into the log and their canoe flipped and all their gear tumbled out. One of the troop’s bins popped open and some of the cooking supplies fell out and Timmy had to swim and retrieve all the missing pieces of equipment. As Timmy was retrieving everything rain clouds started to form and it started to drizzle then we heard thunder and saw lightning so we had to stay on the beach for thirty minutes until the rain passes. Thirty minutes turned into an hour and an hour turned into two hours. So to pass the time we raided the snack bag and ate almost all the snacks. There was another group from a camp that had to stop on the bank and there was probably 300 kids on one small bank. After the rain passed we were all soaking wet. We were soaking wet all the way back to the canoe shop. Then when we got there we had to pack up and we started home. Another 7 hours back
As we were going down the river there was a log in the river it was barely poking out of the water. Everyone avoided the log except for Sam and Jack. They crashed into the log and their canoe flipped and all their gear tumbled out. One of the troop’s bins popped open and some of the cooking supplies fell out and Timmy had to swim and retrieve all the missing pieces of equipment. As Timmy was retrieving everything rain clouds started to form and it started to drizzle then we heard thunder and saw lightning so we had to stay on the beach for thirty minutes until the rain passes. Thirty minutes turned into an hour and an hour turned into two hours. So to pass the time we raided the snack bag and ate almost all the snacks. There was another group from a camp that had to stop on the bank and there was probably 300 kids on one small bank. After the rain passed we were all soaking wet. We were soaking wet all the way back to the canoe shop. Then when we got there we had to pack up and we started home. Another 7 hours back