Weather consideration for Backpack Trip this weekend

The attendance tonight at the Cross over for the new in-coming Scouts (WEBELOS) was excellent and exceeded all previous times. Thanks for your support and encouragement for making it work.

We are going to be watching the weather closely for as you know there are storms due from the NW starting quickly into possibly the weekend. We will go ahead and plan to pack our personal gear and bring it to the Hut on Thursday night (26 March) and load it on the Frank Tank that night as planned.....Remember, if coming on the trip, it is required to bring the backpack to the hut on Thursday night at 6:30 PM so we can pack the food a and Troop gear... .if the rain slacks off well enough Friday night..we will go on "Friday night at 5:00 PM as usual....if it stays bad, we will cancel Friday night and will probably meet at the Hut at 6:30 AM Saturday morning ir it starts clearing ..to still make a trip to NE Alabama. There is no sense in going if it will just be a sloppy wet weekend and tough for backpacking...if it is going to rain the entire weekend...we may cancel Saturday also.

We will watch the weather and let you know by 4:00 PM on email on Friday what we will do....if there are no cancellation emails by 4:00 PM on Friday,,,we will leave at 5:00 PM on Friday as planned for the weekend at the Walls of Jericho. You can also call me at 516-7161 to be sure after 4:00 on Friday if you are not around a computer for email.

As we know, heavy rain and electrical storms just do no make for a good back packing weekend. If a cancellation, we will just reschedule it in the future this year....

Thanks for your support.....

YiS Dan S Delivering the Promise"