Granite Creek

If you haven't headed up into Granite Creek, you should. It heads into an amazing canyon filled with vertical rock walls, petroglyphs, caves, and sandy washes. As usual, we hiked in the dark to get to our campsite - about 7 miles in. Finally we came to a huge sandy river bottom, which made for a great place to camp.

There was so much dry wood along the wash banks that getting a couple of roaring fires was no problem whatsoever, and sure helped to keep us warm throughout the night. In the morning we were able to enjoy the scenery much more, and we found even more caves and indian petroglyphs on the way out.

We didn't get many pictures from this trip, but there are a few if you click on the campfire below. The dark picture with all of the little dots, the one that looks like a picture of the stars, that's a picture of headlamps as the Scouts scrambled over rocks and climbed through brush during the hike in.

Veteran's Memorial

The American Legion and Veteran's of Foreign Wars have been trying to get a Veteran's Memorial built here in Prescott Valley for the last few years. As they finally approached their completion date for the walkway part of the Memorial, they needed a little help with a fundraiser dinner, so the Scouts jumped into action! They helped to serve a fine spaghetti dinner to a LOT of people, and the Veteran's were very grateful.

A couple of weeks later, they were needed again to handout programs at the unveiling of the Memorial walkway, and were also selected to unveil the Walkway during the ceremony. The Walkway is composed of bricks with the name, service branch, and service dates of military Veterans from the Quad-City areas. It was a very special honor, and a great ceremony.

We are very proud of our Scouts for their continued willingness to serve their fellow man, and we are very grateful to our Veterans for their service and sacrifice.

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