Please click the Trek Experience Video link to view.
Trek 2015 Video
Please click the Trek Experience Video link to view.
Please see the excellent Kent Reporter article listed below as contributed by Pat Hanis of the Lake Meridian Ward (he and his wife Sarah were a Ma & Pa on the Trek):
Along with our Stake Presidency & youth leaders, we would like to invite you to join us this Sunday, July 5, in a special fast for our upcoming Kent Stake Youth Trek (beginning July 15th). The temperatures have been high in Bing Canyon the last few weeks, so we will trek in the early cooler hours of the day and have times of shade and lots of ice and water along the way. We would like to ask you to fast that the Lord might temper the elements, & bless us that we might be able to bear up under the challenges we will face at Bing Canyon.
Here are the latest updates and reminders for trek. Please carefully read and follow these guidelines:
There will be No Youth Trek Fireside on Sunday, July 12th. This email is being sent in the place of the fireside.
On Sunday, July 12th at 7 pm there will be a Ma and Pa training meeting instead. Those who should attend are Ma’s and Pa’s, Company Captains, and our Trail Boss and his wife. Important final details will be discussed.
We have attached the personal equipment list. Please make sure you have all of these items and pay special attention to these details:
Do Not Bring the Following to Trek
Please turn in Medical & Permission forms as soon as possible if you have not done so. Please give them to the following Trek Committee members this Sunday, July 5th.
Saturday July 11th at 1 pm – Bring your bucket (filled with personal equipment), and your bedroll to the Stake Center. It will be loaded in trailers and driven to Bing Canyon ahead of us.
Wednesday July 15th at 7 am – Report to the Stake Center for our Trek Departure Meeting. Be prepared for that meeting by: Eating a good breakfast before you come, wearing your pioneer clothing, bringing a sack lunch & water bottle to eat on the road.
Please keep exercising and preparing for trek.
Parents/Leaders – if you have special plans to get yourself or your youth to or home from Trek, please call Adam Shumway @ 801-691-2964. He is setting up youth in cars to come and go from Trek.
Emergency Contact Information for Bing Canyon is: Elder Bill and Sister Cathy Coe 435-680-3999 and 509-947-6357.
For information about latest updates, exercising, sewing clothing, making neck coolers, or registration please visit the site menu links above.
Best wishes in your preparations,
Mark and Audrey Maucotel, Kent Stake Youth Trek Leaders
Keep up with your temporal and spiritual preparations, and we’ll see you soon!
After the fireside concluded, attendees were ushered in to the cultural hall to review various displays by the Trek committees. The handcart displayed at the Ma & Pa training was also present for the youth and parents to see. To assist the youth and parents in seeing/visiting all the various displays, Sister Heather Froisland (Publicity Committee) put together a checklist, as well as important dates, preparation hints/tips, and where to go for more information. You can review this handout by clicking the thumbnail image below. Thanks to all who participated!
Trek Safety – LDS.org – Trek Safety, Training & Video Resources
Bing Canyon Web Site – Official Bing Canyon (Trek) Web Site
Relative Finder – Find your ancestors
Laundry/Gear Bags – Sturdy Black Laundry Bags for Trek Gear (purchase in sets of 5)
Here’s a bit more information to help us on our way with Trek:
The next Ma & Pa Training is Saturday May 30th, 8 am to noon at the Kent Stake Center. Please wear your trek clothes if you have them. It will be a great morning of important hands-on training. The different committees preparing Trek will present the things you all need to know.
[dao]This Sunday, May 31st, will be a stake fireside for all youth attending Trek, their parents and youth leaders. The fireside will be held at 7:00pm in the KSC chapel. After we meet in the chapel, we will be moving to the cultural hall for displays from the various committees to assist with trek preparation. Please plan to attend, it should be a wonderful evening as we continue our preparations for Trek 2015.
Ma & Pa’s please plan to attend the last Ma & Pa Training on June 23rd at 7 pm at the Kent Stake Center. You will meet your Big Brother and/or Big Sister there. These older youth will help you with your family.
There will be another Square Dance Practice on June 17th at 7 pm at the Kent Stake Center. Please plan to be there. You Ma & Pa’s will learn to dance there. We will not have a dance practice at the Ma & Pa Training.
All adults going on Trek need to register just like the youth. Here is the link for the adult registrations: http://www.kentstakeyouthtrek.org/adultreg/
The link above and the associated online registration form will be available starting at 8am on May 25th (Memorial Day).
Thank You