Hi all,
If your scout is planning to go to camp, please drop off the form and a check made out to Troop 160 at my house by sunday evening. My address is on the form.
Camperships are available! The process is private and the results are kept private. Not even I know who is on camperships. No scout should miss camp due to financial reasons! Please contact Geoge Kaplan (george{at}gskaplan.com) for campership info.
Jeff Shorter
Troop 160 Camp Coordinator
Hi all,
It is that time again! Summer camp. This is a great experience for all out scouts. We STRONGLY encourage all our scouts to go to both weeks of summer camp. The two camps provide different great experiences.
The weeks are:
Camp Bell Aug 8 – 14
Hidden Valley Aug 15-21
Please read over the information sheet and return your deposits to me, Jeff Shorter, by March 5th.
For some of the older scouts 14+ there are some high adventure options (SPOKE and Valley Voyageur) that can also be coupled with the camps.
Where else can you get the great experiences for your son and two weeks room, board, and transportation for under $700?????
If you have any questions, email, call, or see me at the meetings.
Jeff Shorter
Summer Camp Coordinator
The slide shows for both camps are more complete although we are still adding pictures as they come in and we are continuing to work on the sound tracks. There are 108 slides for Hidden Valley and 265 for Bell. The Bell slideshow will take awhile to load because of the the number of pictures and the high resolution of some of them.
Once the shows load, you can either page through them or just click on START SLIDESHOW.
Some video clips are in a separate album. If you don’t understand them, ask the Scout in your family to explain them. If you don’t have a Scout who was there, feel free to ask.
For the clips, ignore the START SLIDESHOW button. Just wait for them all to load and then click on the one you want. Once it comes up, click on the arrow to run it. They typically pause just after they start, then take off and run to completion.
Here are links to both shows and the clips:
Bell Slideshow
Hidden Valley Slideshow
All of the pictures in the slideshows may be downloaded or sent to various online picture printing sites. A big thank you to all the photographers who have contributed their artwork.
Enjoy!
-Hank Manz
We try to leave camp between 9:30 AM and 10:00 AM. Because the bus is big and is a commercial vehicle, it uses a somewhat longer route than most of the cars, but still it should only take about two hours to make the trip. That should put us in the St Brigid parking lot around noon.
There are some things which can hold us up.
1. Stormy weather. Rain was predicted for today through Saturday, but that weather has not yet arrived so it is hard to tell what Saturday is going to look like.
2. Non-bus parents arriving late. We have had late arrivals both weeks so there is a chance that there will be another this week. I cannot leave camp until the last Troop 160 and Troop 119 camper is accounted for so if everybody could be on time …
3. Unusual traffic or unforseen circumstances. One year it was an unexpected bathroom break.
If we are going to be later than 12:30 PM we will start calling as soon as we know it.
Once we hit the church parking lot, there is a small amount of work left to do. We must unpack the truck and then carry the troop equipment into the storage area.
If you are picking up your son at Hidden Valley, it would be a very good idea to be there no later than 8:45 AM. The closing ceremonies are typically over by 9:30 AM and may end even sooner.
See you all on Saturday!
-Hank Manz
Here are a few shots of the early days at Hidden Valley. Click on START SLIDESHOW once the photos load. You can download hires photos from the site or send them off to be printed by any one of several photo printing services.
http://hankmanz.phanfare.com/4284660#imageID=78610811
Things are going smoothly. The weather has been HOT, but dry. Everybody has been in the water and, in fact, a special Siesta Swim has been started just to get more cooling off time on the agenda. About half the troop showed up for the Polar Bear Swim at 6:30 AM today although the polar bears were mostly sitting under beach umbrellas and sipping tropical drinks.
If anybody has pictures from Weeks 1 and 2 they would like to publish, we will add them to the Electronic Letters Home and make them into a full blown slide show after we get back on Saturday. There are plans to add a better soundtrack as well based on our recordings of The Sounds of Camp.
Stay tuned!
-Hank Manz