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My goal each year is to have something very TALL as part of our camp layout. In the early years, we took care of this with scaffolding. However, time has shown us that scaffolding is heavy, not cheap, and takes some time (and hard labour) to set up.

In the past five years, I've switched from scaffolding to building some sort of tower - with varying degrees of success. Past fairies will recall the success of the wooden block tower and the absolute failure of the plastic pipe tower.

For this year, we are going to try the milk crate tower! The concept is a singular stack of milk crates, bound together with heavy-duty zip ties and supported by guide lines with the emergency solar road lights on top (for visibility) and other lighting (EL Wire? Blue Christmas Solar Lights?) running up the sides.

As this is a nice-to-have versus a must-have, this is the "day after" activity that we can work on after we set up the rest of the camp.

Still to do:

- Gather 40 milk crates

- Get solar road lights from John

- Make a wooden platform (with drilled rebar holes for the corner) to create a base for the tower to sit on, to prevent it from becoming buried in the ground

- Set aside four long pieces of rebar for support (4')

- Identify and set aside side lights (either solar power christmas lights or el wire)