Timberline: Rock Canyon and a different visitor

Timberline: Rock Canyon and a different visitor

(Timberline part 23)

One year I was asked to visit a course from our district that was being held in the Rock Canyon Campground up Rock Canyon from the Provo Temple about 2 miles. They had hiked the boys in that Monday from the mouth of the canyon even though it could be reached by driving up from a road in Provo canyon. In fact that was how the staff had taken all of the gear up for the camp and that is how I had gone to the camp also. I was there to present a patriotic slide show and had arrived about the time they were preparing to eat their dinner meal. As the boys were coming from their patrol sites this time someone called out that there was a moose in the camp. Sure enough there was and I was more concerned for the safety of the boys from this visitor that I had been with the bears at the last camps. I knew a moose could charge with less provocation than a bear if the boys all suddenly wanted to see it. I only caught s short glimpse of it while trying to round up the boys who were trying to find it. I didn’t let them know it was still there and was finally able to get them to go to the kitchen tent. The moose wandered around a little longer and we did see it a couple more times before it finally left for the night. I was very relieved when we no longer could catch short sightings of it that night and figured that it had moved away from camp.