Teknik Campout 2009 at Crystal Hot Springs.

Man has time flown by. The third blog we wrote was about the Teknik Campout last year in 2008. In that blog I wrote about it being extremely cold because we stayed up at my friend Allen’s cabin in the Uintas. Because of that we looked forward to planning the 2009 campout earlier in the summer so it would be warm at night.

Well fast forward a year now. The yearly Teknik campout didn't happen earlier in the summer like I had hoped last year it would. Infact it ended up taking place the exact same weekend and nights (Sept 5th-6th) as it did last year.

This year however we didn't go up to Allen’s Cabin. I was in charge of it so taking all local camp resorts into consideration we decided on Crystal Hot Springs in Honeyville, Utah. Its about 10 miles north of Brigham City. I remembered going there as kid and having a lot of fun. In addition the mineral pools they also had waterslides. It was only $15 bucks a night for a campsite and swimming would only cost $5 (or $10 if you wanted to do the slide) so I figured this would be a great place for the campout.









Check in for the campsite was at 2 p.m. So naturally Kiera and I didn't get there tell right after 3 lol. Luckily however we were still there before anyone else was. Everyone else was there by 5:30 so we all got the campsite's set up and relaxed and chatted for awhile before deciding we wanted to go down to the pools. We all changed into our swimsuits and headed down. This is when we realized how ghetto the place we were staying at really is.





There’s no easier way to say it. This place is bad. It is very beat up and run down and very very ghetto. The main lodge felt like it was falling apart. The locker rooms were probably the nastiest ones I’ve ever seen. The pools were also very dirty and nasty. There Olympic size pull looked like there was mold growing in it and they didn't even bother cleaning any of the mineral pools so it had a ring of rust around it. The waterslides had to be a safety hazard. The building looked like a hillbilly shack in the middle of nowhere constructed of whatever scrap piece of wood or plastic that they could find. I seriously felt that if you stepped in the wrong spot you would go crashing thru the floor to your death. I also never saw any adults working there. None. Only a bunch of 16-18 year old girls who looked like they could care less what was going on. The girls running the waterslide just sat in a little shack the whole time chatting to each other. Not watching anyone making sure things were safe. With all that being said though the hot mineral pool did feel amazing. Just don't get the water in your mouth lol. And the slide was a lot of fun. But overall the water park portion of the resort needs a lot of help.











After getting back to the campsite we got the fire going and decided to start roasting hot dogs for dinner. Surprisingly the Campsites were pretty decent here. They were large and had plenty of room. The only complaint about the campsite it self was how small the fire pits are. They were very large as it was. But then to add to it they have like have the pit covered with a grill type thing. We made it work though. After dinner we moved on to cooking some smores as well.















After dinner and the Smores the drunkenness in some of the guys really started to come out. Between the yelling, flaming marshmallow fights, spraying beer everywhere, and late night trek over to the railroad tracks to lay around $6 worth of coins on the track I’m surprised they all didn't get yelled at by another camp site sooner then they did. (which was at 1 in the morning BTW).



















One thing about the campsites though that contribute to the ghetoness of the resort is the bathrooms. Or the lack there of. They have portapotties. These being really dirty and gross. But don't expect the ones in the lodge to be much better. They were probably just as nasty as the portable ones.

























After a few games of Catchphrase (which none of the drunks could figure out) it was off to bed. Those train tracks which we laid the coins on were only about 200 feet from our campsite. During the day and that whole night we were awake we only saw 1 train go by. So of course 3 of them had to come by in the middle of the night. It was bad. Seriously it felt like the train was going to come right thru our tent. It was so loud. And then of course we couldn't fall back to sleep afterwards. It also started raining as well early in the morning so that kept us up with splating of the rain on the tent.







The next morning when we got up Kiera made some amazing pancakes and eggs for everyone. Then it was time to pack up and head back home. Unfortunately my camera died early in the morning so this is the only picture from breakfast (your all probably pictured out anyways after reading this). Overall it was fun being with the crew and spending time with everyone. Its not very often anymore that we all get together like this. Even though the place we stayed was ghetto we still had a lot of fun being around close friends and enjoying one another’s company. As I said last year I look forward to next years campout again. This time I wouldn't mind it being the same weekend again. Just in a much nicer and less ghetto location.





On one final note it was awesome to see BYU win the game on Saturday and pull the upset against Oklahoma. I'm a huge BYU fan so it was great to see them get off to a great start this season. I think we are in for some exciting Collage Football this year. Especially within the Mountain West Conference. Go COUG'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!