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Current Entry: Road Bocce
Following 4-Way Volleyball at Winter Camp XL, contested for the first time in camp history at Trout Lake cabin, campers set out for a game of Road Bocce to make their way back to Beaver Creek. Four teams were formed, and the order of the visual spectrum was carefully observed in turn-taking. A spurt of pre-match good sense decreed that the game should not start until Hilltop cabin, for fear that the players might be fighting gravity and ice until the spring thaw.
The Red team jumped out to an early lead, aided greatly by two 2-point wins. One was achieved when Dave Oakley of the Gang Green turned the game ofi of Ranch Road into the site of the former OK Corral, leading to a short round played through deeper snow. Team Yellow trailed badly in the early going, and was listed only as "Also participating" in the scoring record for some time. When the game turned ofi the road onto the Clearwater Trail, the score was 8-4-4-1 for Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow.
Yellow soon rallied, with four straight wins through the woods to pull into a three-way tie for second place. As the final round crossed the road into Beaver Creek campsite, Yellow's last throw won the round, but Red held on for the win with 8 points, nosing out Green's 7, Yellow's 6, and Blue's 4.