Housatonic Canoe Trip

Well, for the first time since June, Troop 4 has had an outing without rain.  It was warm, sunny and mild all day for a spectacular trip down the Housatonic River in Connecticut.  

Seven canoes made up the Troop armada and carried 15 of us down stream with only one scout getting wet.  All in all a pretty good day.

At the end of our trip was a really beautiful waterfall we got to explore.  The scouts even discovered a large cave hidden in the rocks and a small stream running under the rocks.  They spotted where the water entered the rocks at the top of the falls and found the exit point in the rocks at the bottom.

My favorite part of the afternoon was when my son Henry found some graffiti left by one of our ancestors 128 years ago etched into the rocks at the falls.

Clearly old George was not a Boy Scout and did not subscribe to the Scout ethos of "Leave No Trace", but it was still pretty cool.

For all the pictures taken on the canoe trip please check out the Troop photo page at:

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