Monthly Archives: January 2006

Summer Camp Forms and Fees due March 2!

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Summer Camp Information & Registration Forms were handed out at last Thursday’s Troop Meeting (1/25). If you didn’t get one, the information is attached. I will also have forms available at the meetings if for some reason you are not able to open these attachments.

Please read the “Information Sheet” as soon as you can as there are some changes over last year. The most significant change is that the FULL PAYMENT MUST BE MADE TO THE SUMMER CAMP COORDINATOR BY MARCH 2ND!

Please note that we are still waiting on the final information regarding SPOKE. This is a new program for Scouts 14 years old and over (see “Information Sheet”). We will get the details out as soon as they become available.

If you have questions, please ask!

David Belford
Summer Camp Coordinator

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Webelos night, February 2

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We are hosting a whole bunch of Webelos next week. We will be organizing some Super Round Robins around SCUBA, rock climbing, canoeing, and other high-adventure stuff so come early to get briefed. The meeting will start promptly at 7:30. If some of those hotshot JASMs and Greenbars and Quartermasters could get there by 6:45, that would be nice because we need to do some setup.

Also keep in mind that we want the Webelos to fully participate in the meeting so be prepared to integrate them into the patrols so they understand how a troop works. For those who participated in games last year–we will do the same thing this year.

Packing light: Trog’s lessons learned

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I think we were all impressed by the presentation by Trog at our last meeting (January 26, 2006). Some of the things I took away from the presentation were:His base pack weighs just 11.4 pounds. That is his pack without food, water, and a couple of items of weather-related clothing. In other words, he can pick up his base pack, throw in about two pounds of food and four pounds of water and he can be gone for a couple of days. The bottom line is that his pack doesn’t even weigh 20 pounds.

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Deep Freeze Camping Trip, February 18-20

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Troop 160 will once again be having our Deep Freeze campout at the Rolfson’s acreage in Albion, Maine. This year we will meet at St. Brigid’s at 8:00 am SHARP on Saturday, February 18. We’ll be returning at about 3:00 pm on Monday, February 20. Signups are due by February 4.

Trip Leader: Charles Hatvany (charles -at- hatvany -dot- com)
Trip Coordinator: Peggy McHugh (peggy.mchugh -at- comcast -dot- net)

Downloads:

Information and permission slip
Deep Freeze packing list

Links:

Troop 119 winter camping guide