Deacon Summer Adventure

The same week Branden had high adventure, that Wednesday, Devin went with the deacons on a bike ride down the PQ canyon to the beach. They had to go out of the canyon onto the road for part of it because there had been a fire the week before at the west end of the canyon and some areas were still burning off and getting cleaned up. Of course for Devin, a bike ride is no big deal these days having done the RAC.

Thursday to Saturday, they did a backpacking trip to San Jacinto. They drove to the Palm Springs area, took the tram up the mountain, and then hiked a few miles to the campground. The next day they did an up and back to the peak and camped another night at the campground. Apparently the hike was a bit harder than the leaders had anticipated. But the boys were troopers and made it.

Devin had a lot of fun, and it was a good experience for him to be out hiking, camping, independent of us and gaining confidence and experiences for growth. Looks like it wore him out pretty good.