By Lacey Landt
This year in Mini, the first trip was Pauline’s bike trip they biked through Mankato. It was a three day bike trip. Next was the Mark Warren trip I didn’t go last year but this year I did. If you have the chance to go on this trip, Go!! Grantsburg went out and there was a nice size group. An Alumnus even joined them, Josh Stinson.
Next, was Winter Activities, I have never been on it so I asked Justin Streeter what he thought of the trip and he said “Great” with two thumbs up. Not much later came the Michigan ski trip with Randy. Five days they snowboarded everyday and went into the lodge to keep warm. Next is the Winter Camping trip. It left March 5th and returned March 12th. The trip consisted of building a quinzhee, {if you want to stay warm}, cross country skiing, and snow shoe hiking. After this trip you will come back with muscular legs. The trippers that went this year were Eric Thomas, Kim Colway, Mike Phelps, Casey Bakken, Mike Ennis and Tony Cruikshank.
I will be attending the next trip that goes out, the Utah Green River Trip. I don’t care if I have to ride in the trailer. I will go!!! We will be getting back from Utah around May 2nd just as Randy’s bike trip heads out for the Black Hills. On the Utah trip we will see who the real trippers are. The Boundary Waters Canoe trip will go out after the bike trip. The portages there are a real @#%&$. Towards the end of the year Randy might do another bike trip through Minnesota or into Wisconsin. He doesn’t know, yet we all know how Randy is. Once school is over and those kids who didn’t quite finish this year or need extra credit, Doug and Randy take out a summer school canoe trip on the Namekagon and the St. Croix River.
How many programs do you know of that take you out for once in a lifetime opportunities? What a program!! One I certainly wouldn’t want to lose.