What's Wong?: Urban Campers

I think camping is a great opportunity to escape from the city stress and deepen relationships with others while experiencing God's awesome creation. It's a once a year occurence for me (if I'm lucky) and it isn't even REAL camping. My version of camping is when you have basically all the same luxuries as back home except you sleep outside in the cold. We had walkie talkies for the hike and when those were out of range, we used cell phones. People had their mp3 phones playing music the entire hike. It was a lot of fun and, as a bonus, I learned a few things that weekend too:

1. It's good to bring extra water. Extra salty, sugary snacks won't help you while hiking if you don't have water.
2. Don't listen to strangers when they tell you that it's easier to hike down the other side of the mountain rather than going back the way we came. My mom was right about them.
3. Smaller groups are the key to getting to know people. 22 people around a campfire was cool but didn't provide a good environment for any decent campfire discussions. However, hiking on a trail with a couple people is an excellent situation to chat.

Here are a few shots from the trip. The rest can be found here.