Wilderness Odyssey

Elk steak and bear tracks, howling coyotes and campfire songs…
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Life with the Amish isn’t always milking cows, shucking corn and baking apple pies. Travel alongside these eight Indiana youth/newlyweds on their two-week expedition deep in the mountains of Colorado.

They encounter some very unexpected happenings- sometimes hilarious, sometimes hair-raising -that affect them profoundly; from the top of the Sears (Willis) Tower to the top of the Rockies.

In their own words:
Reality Strikes. Here I am in the mountains, miles from civilization…Nobody knows where I am…no road close by…the foremost thing on my mind is my fellow campers. They don’t have the slightest clue what swallowed me up!

I half-awaken to some disgruntled sounds from David’s tent…Sometime later we’re jerked awake by the loud POP of the pistol.

The night is pitch black and makes me aware that I am quite alone…Occasionally, I swivel my head around to check for eyes in the dark. If a bear smelled all this blood and fresh meat he’d probably think I owed him a handout…

Not for the fainthearted
Thinking about taking a vacation in the mountains to get away from it all? Read this group’s account to give you a sneak preview of what to expect. But then, you might not meet up with a TV reporter’s microphone thrust at you - or realize the sun is setting and you are on the wrong side of the mountain, alone, with no clue in which direction camp is.