Multi Vanguard Youth Family Trek Planned for May 2014...rsvp to Angie to save a spot for your family

This message is from Angie Moore:

 I have reserved May 22-24, 2014 for our Vanguard Family Trek.    Yeah!!!  This should be fun.  We can have a maximum of 500 people.  That is 50 carts, 10 people per cart.  Please feel free to let your Vanguard families know so that they can start reserving their spots.  Here are a couple of things to think about that might come up right at the start of planning this.  If you have ever done a family trek or even if you haven't, please share your ideas or concerns.

1.  Can a youth attend even if their parent/s can not?  Of the top of my head, I was thinking yes but the family would be in charge of asking another family who is going to be responsible for their youth.  As this is a family trek, I think we really need to encourage the whole family to attend.  I think that is what will really make this a special trek.  Youth going without family should be the exception not the rule.  Only Vanguard youth would be allowed to go without a parent.  Younger siblings would need at least one parent.  This is what we have stuck with for our back packing trips and it has worked well.

2. How many families to a cart?  I am assuming that for those who have large families, they will do one cart.  For those families where only one parent can go, we would double up families?  However, I guess for families where only dads could go, we could put those families together? Hmmmm.... actually for families that only moms or dads can go maybe we could add them to a smaller family since some families like my own will only maybe have 3-4 people so we could definitely add another mom and children or  another dad and children?  Let me know your thoughts.

That is all I can think of that might come up right now as families decide if they can go.  There is a handbook put out by the LDS church for treks, I will start reading it and then come up with a date to have the first planning meeting.  I think we should plan on 1 person or couple from each Vanguard group that is planning on participating to help start the planning.  We can get together and decide how we want the leadership to look and how we want to use the youth in helping to lead the trek.  This year our stake did a trek and it was completely youth led.  I would love to see the Vanguard youth really take the leadership on this, with the adults just shadow mentoring?   Thoughts on this?

Do you have any other questions that you think we better answer before we put it out to everyone?

Thanks,

Angie 

Hi once again,  I just wanted to make sure that I communicated correctly.  Now that the dates for the trek are reserved, if you plan on having your Vanguard group participate, please send out an email to your group letting them know of the dates and the location.  They will need to RSVP to rasberrysncream@hotmail.com (me) with the number of people planning on attending and with any questions that they have. We can have up to 500 people (50 carts with 10 people per cart) so there should be plenty of room for everyone who wants to go.   
 
Thanks!