Finley in Action: Camp Mendocino where the RedWoods Grow

Hey Guys. I know I just posted but I figured I would give a nice quick re-cap on my Camp Mendocino trip. Camp Mendocino is a camp where they take inner city kids from San Fran during the summer. We went up there to help fix up the camp and do some team building exercises. It was beautiful. We drove through desert, and mountains and red rocks for hours until we got into the Redwoods district. Then after driving for miles and miles without even a speck of civilization, we took a dirt road that slipped between jagged hills and rocky ledges over a river. We drove on this road for almost an hour, EVERYTHING was dripping with moss and we drove so far into the forest that it became wicked dark because the trees were so tall and dense.

We stayed in plank cabins, windows with no glass and no doors or electricity. It was freezing. In the nights it got to about 40 degrees or colder, waking up for PT every morning at 5:30 was hell but it didn't matter because the land was soooo beautiful. I literally didn't change out of my clothes once because it was so nippy, I wore long johns under my entire uniform and my parka. Even in the mess hall, which was heated, we could see our breaths. We got three huge meals everyday and a different team helped prepare/ clean up for it everyday. We were at camp for 4 days with all 60 people in my unit. We hiked, did a ropes course, went on a zip line through the the woods and helped scrub the camp from top to bottom. At night we had camp fires. On the last night I pulled my stuff out by the fire and slept there instead. The sky was outstanding.

PICTURESThis Is one of my team mates Christina