HEY, THREE SISTERS
TREATED TO BEAUTIFUL SIGHTS ALONG THE WAY, THIS TROOP CONQUERED CHALLENGES ON THE TRAIL THROUGH OREGON’S WILDERNESS.
ith two 48-ounce Nalgenes and a couple of 32-ounce water bottles, Andrew Hruby thought he had enough for each day of his troop’s 40-mile backpacking trek. But the first day on the trail required trudging uphill — a 2,100-foot gain in elevation — under a hot sun with little shade. The 15-year-old First Class Scout drank all his water, and he still had a mile until he would get to
