These days, if you're in an area with no cell phone range, you're in a pretty remote area. My sister lives in such an area. The place is Wildhorse Canyon, a Young Life camp outside of Antelope, Oregon. Antelope gained national prominence in the '80's thanks to the Rajneeshee movement. After the Rajneesh was kicked out of the US and his followers disbanded, the property they inhabited was sold and subsequently donated to Young Life for development of this camp. It's a pretty amazing place. Put it this way, it's 64,000 acres and you'd be hard pressed to find it without directions. Actually, you'd be hard pressed to find it with directions.
Colin, Grant and I made a trip out to visit Erin this weekend. We left Friday night and everything was going smoothly until we got to Antelope. There, the directions said "go through Antelope and take the first right on Cold Creek Road (about 3 miles) and take a left onto One Muddy Road" Well, that's to some roads with no signs, we came to an intersection at the very end of Antelope. Grant tells me that this must be Cold Creek Road because we're through Antelope, so we take a right and go three miles to One Muddy Road. Sounds good to me.
17 miles later we realized this was probably not the way we should have gone. Turns out that Cold Creek Road was 3 miles past Antelope. So there was some ambiguity in the directions, I wouldn't fully blame Grant. However, a 45 minute detour on an already 4 hour drive was not really fun.
The weekend was cool. Erin has worked out there for 3 full years, and before that was a summer worker for 4 summers, so she's kind of a big deal out there. We did all the fun camp things, including a 3 person swing in which they crank you up about 60 feet in the air and then just drop you and let you swing out over a creek bed. Basically if you haven't found God before you get on this thing, you'll find him about the time you start free falling out over nothing. There was also a zip line into a lake that will give you hypothermia if you stay in too long, and a "blob" which is hard to describe, but basically it's a half full giant airbag in the lake. One person sits on one end of the blob while another person jumps off a 17.5 foot tower onto the other end, thus launching the first person into the air. Kinda fun, but also slightly painful if you don't hit the blob or the water right.
We had a campfire, played frisbee golf, soccer, basketball and had a carnival one night, complete with ring toss, jousting, knocking milk jugs off a stand with a softball and popping balloons with darts. We also hiked up a hill called Communication, which is a huge misnomer because the hike is straight up and you can't communicate with anyone because it sucks the life right out you as you go up. Or maybe that was just me. Anyways, I'm freaking exhausted, and now I'm supposed to work a full work week? Bring it.
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