Reader Photo: Boy Scout Troop 36 Climbs Mount Yale

Dorith Finkelstein, an Oradell resident, who works with Boy Scout Troop 36 sent a photo of her troop during a recent trip mountain climbing trip to Colorado. 

She writes:

Members of Boy Scout Troop 36 from Oradell pose here atop Mount Yale in Colorado. At an elevation of 14,200 feet, Mount Yale is one among three magnificent "Fourteeners" Troop 36's High Adventure Crew climbed in merely four days - the other two being Mount Shavano and Mount Elbert, the tallest mountain in Colorado. The crew, consisting of nine senior Scouts and three Assistant Scoutmasters, made Yale's summit after several days of adventuring, which included whitewater rafting on the Arkansas River, exploring a frigid waterfall, and hiking 700 feet up North America's largest sand dunes at Colorado's Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Also on the trip, members of Troop 36 enjoyed natural rock climbing and rafting down The Royal Gorge, a notorious stretch of challenging class four and five rapids that offers among the most enviable whitewater rafting experiences in the United States. Troop 36 orchestrated their trip through Colorado's Rocky Mountain High Adventure Base in Poncha Springs, located in the heart of Colorado's vast and pristine wilderness. Over the course of ten days, Troop 36's High Adventure crew travelled 50 miles on water and on foot."