Troop 22 typically rotated summer high adventure activities between two or three different bases. In 1996, the troop was scheduled to go to Philmont. There was a small group of scouts who had been there before and wanted to return to the National High Adventure Canoe Base. This lead to the trip that would become known as Adam Touches God because of the resemblance to the shape of the portages around Gamble River and to Lake Adele to the Michelangelo painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
This website is a digitized update of a scrapbook made after the trip. Unfortunately, the scrapbook contained only a table describing the route and pictures. Thus, all the descriptions have been filtered by 20 years of selective memory.
