Approximately 360 miles by car, this is the site that greets you when you make the trip from Salt Lake City, Utah to Martins Cove in Wyoming.This Friday and Saturday, a number of us got to travel up to the Trek site for an orientation. During orientation, the full-time missionary couples immerse you in the background that led to the creation of the site.
You begin in an orientation session (ours was packed) where there is a program including a multimedia presentation. The goal is to provide ideas on what your group will experience during trek and to inform you about the resources available.
Be prepared, they are really serious. After the orientation, we were divided into groups, given a handcart and off we went. They told us it would be a "breezy" 6 mile walk (it is really 7 miles, I took a GPS).
I met up with a great group of guys from Bountiful (North Salt Lake) who are bringing a group similar in size (350 individuals) next summer. As we trekked from place to place (more in a later post) we talked about our own treks and how to prepare our leadership and youth to be ready for this "once in a lifetime" opportunity. More than telling us, they demonstrated with personal knowledge steeped in the history of the site. There was even role playing where some of the missionaries assumed the identity of the original settlers.
This view is from a rest area where you prepare to journey on a 2.3 mile loop into Martins Cove. Right in the center (very small) is a group of trees that marks the vistors center and the entrance shown in the top photo. This spot is about 1.3 miles from the place designated as the "start" of trek.
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