Spirit Lake 1967: Andy's Adventure Beside a Sleeping Volcano

The mountain was sleeping. The adventure was just beginning.August 1967. Eleven-year-old Andy Thompson has one week at Camp Spirit Lake to prove he's ready.Ready to swim. Ready to use a map and compass. Ready to paddle a canoe, cook over a fire, sleep beneath the stars-and, if everything goes right, earn First Class before his twelfth birthday.But the week beside Mount St. Helens becomes far more than a list of Scout requirements.There are competitions to win, friendships to test, freezing water to conquer, trails to explore, and even a mysterious creature swimming through Spirit Lake. Along the way, seven boys begin discovering something their Scoutmaster has been trying to teach them all along: they are capable of more than they think they are.Richly illustrated and grounded in the author's memories of Camp Spirit Lake in the summer of 1967, Spirit Lake 1967 recreates a vanished place and a remarkable week of boyhood adventure beneath one of America's most famous mountains.Thirteen years later, Mount St. Helens erupted-and the camp disappeared forever.Before the eruption, there was the adventure. Welcome to Spirit Lake, 1967.