Junior High Backpacking Trip
SIPSEY WILDERNESS
NOVEMBER 4-6, 2011
Cost: $80 / Deposit $45 / Due October 25, 2011
We will have a limit of 30 hikers. Parents and youth leaders are welcome to come as well. We will be departing on Friday from Camp Lake Stephens. We will spend Saturday hiking and having fun in the Sipsey Wilderness and return to Oxford early Sunday afternoon. We will have meditations and devotions during the trip as well! Come and join us as we begin a new CLS tradition.
Camp Lake Stephens will supply the tents, sleeping pads, and cooking equipment and food. We will have a few backpacks available, so please let us know if you will need a backpack when you register. We will depart from Camp Lake Stephens at 4:30 PM on November 5, and will travel in the bus to Sipsey. We will return to CLS on Sunday afternoon by 2:00 PM.
The Sipsey Wilderness lies within Bankhead National Forest around the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River in northwestern Alabama, USA. The Sipsey Wilderness is the third largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi River. Designated in 1975 and expanded in 1988, the 24,922 acre Sipsey is the largest and most frequently visited Wilderness area in Alabama and contains dozens of waterfalls. It was also the first designated wilderness area east of the Mississippi River.
The wilderness consists of the low plateau of Brindley Mountain which is dissected into a rough landscape by several creeks and rivers. Due to the layers of limestone and sandstone that make up the area, waterfalls are very common in the wilderness. This feature has earned the wilderness the nickname “Land of 1000 Waterfalls.”
