2013 Summer Camp-
Sorry for the late post. We have had trouble with the technology to post updates. We have had a great week so far. Record number of scouts attending summer camp from our Troop... 49 scouts! The Shark Patrol is camping in troop tents at the top of the campsite by the troop trailer. Everyone else is camping in the traditional canvas platform tents. On the first day we had several scouts attend a "drop add" session where there was opportunity to drop a merit badge and add another if the class had capacity. All six troop 281 scouts that went were successful in switching to what they wanted!
Lakeview campsite is awesome. We have a nice cool lake breeze and access to the lake for fishing at night. Lots of requirements have been signed off on both Monday and Tuesday evenings. We have had 3 scoutmaster conferences so far with many more expected in the coming days. We have been awoken every morning by a highly annoying but effective method of banging trash can lids together (Max) at 6:30 AM. We gather around the campsite flagpole at 7:00 for flag raising and troop announcements. The troop has made it to the dining hall for breakfast on time or early every morning this week- which has never happened in the years i've been with the troop. After the 8:00 breakfast at the dining hall everyone goes to merit badge classes. We gather together at noon for lunch and then have a little down time before the afternoon merit badges start at 2:00. Dinner is at 6:00, and everyone is in their Class A uniforms. Our group is large and very sharp! After dinner, there are popular activities like rifle shooting, swimming, boating, archery, cornhole, etc. and fishing, requirement work, and a campfire at our campsite. On Tuesday, Eric and Alexander talked Mr. Wilson into participating in SM waterski which consisted of dragging him across the lake behind a canoe.
A few camp notes- There is a scout Troop from Israel at camp this week. We fly their flag with the American Flag at the dining hall flag ceremony each day (picture below). We started on Sunday with some drama that you may hear about- an accident unrelated to scouts and off our campground resulted in using the safe landing field in front of the dining hall to land a UC Health medi-vac helicopter while we were eating dinner. As you can imagine, a helicopter landing by the dining hall was impossible to ignore. We stayed in the dining hall and sang songs until everything cleared out of camp.
We will try to post additional pictures and updates during the week.
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| Troop 281 Color Guard at Camp-Wide Flags on Wed. |
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| Troop 281 Color Guard- American and Israeli Flags |
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| Michael by the large pile of firewood.. splitting yard in the background. |
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| Working on Tenderfoot Requirements. |
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| Brendan demonstrating two half hitches knot. |
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| Corey with his Bass |
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| Breakfast Line |
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| Card Game |
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| Mr. Smotherman begging for left over b-fast sausage |
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