Camping Sports, Episode 2

ROCK!

ROCK! is a very simple, albeit complex camping game.  Hardware: Rocks, body of water.  Software: Campers (People are ALWAYS software, mind you).  Participants head to the body of water and decide on final scoring for winning.  Normally, it is 3 times the number of players rounded up to the nearest number divisible by 5, not exceeding 10.  So, in other words, 10 is the final score for winning ROCK! 

Players initially walk along the shoreline, looking for rocks suitable for 'skipping.'

As soon as all players find a good rock, they proceed to 'skip' the rock across the body of water.  The player with the most skips, gets one point.  If there is a dispute in regards to the number of skips, a consensus is made.  If this cannot be done, the round is redone.

Once a player gains a point, they have the advantage.  The players slowly walk the shoreline and the most recent point winner yells, "ROCK!" when they are ready to select and skip a rock.  Fortunately for the 'caller,' they are looking for rocks to skip - that is the advantage.  When the caller yells, 'ROCK!,' all players must immediately stop and select a rock within a 'bending down radius,' to skip.  Points are made, score is kept and the game continues until a player scores 10 wins.

ROCK! is fun.  Winner - of course - gets a pose on The Stump.

ROCK! is a social sport, rarely combined with alcohol; but routinely combined with cigar smoking.  Normally, ROCK! is played at sunset - after Camping Golf and before Singing Songs to Chad's Stories.