Pack Camping Committee meeting #2

We met again tonight to finalize our campout schedule.  Steve pitched a craft that we're going to do - a fireplace craft on a CD!  Nicole is going to take photos and do our annual photo craft.  i'm going to order a banner that we can use for the photos - $10 and it'll have the pack info and date in the picture.  Finalized the menu planning and Randi is going to help me by going food shopping next week.  It's almost time for the campout!  The boy scouts are going to cook zeppoles and help the cub scouts with tent setups.  We will do some activities with our friends from pack 46 new city - they will be at camp the same day as us and they are doing a pushmobile race and playing field games.  Wx permitting it should be a great day!

The End Is Near!

Banners - Small by Vistaprint

Coming soon.... I am nearly finished with my ticket! The campout weekend will be the last few items I have to do. I am very excited. tonight i have my final campout meeting. I had one in April also. We planned out the campout - I used the "wood badge tools" to get feedback from others - looked for some other ideas - checked for understanding - all the good communications tools we learned in wood badge.

Letters Back from England!

It took a while, but we finally got our letters back from jolly old england.  I got a postcard from Nicola, which gave me a lot of info about her and her background as a scout leader - it seems her unit has many of the same issues we see over here!  Each scout got a letter back - although a few scouts were "Swapped out" on their side, so our kids will get letters from new kids that they didn't write to!  Ah kids! 

Hike #3: Kakiat Park, Montebello NY 5/5/2013

This was a great hike!  Easy for sure, but so much fun.  Randi and I had explored Kakiat Park earlier this year and ended up going up the mountain and decided that would probably be too much for the boys.  So we scaled it down a bit and did the relatively easy kakiat trail to old mill trail.  We were going to add in a small uphill component and go up to the gas line facility and back down again, but we had so much fun exploring the old mill and playing with the dog that we kept it simple.  We only had a few boys - my 2 boys and donny p. - it was a bad day with first communions and some families still a little tired from last week's hike!  Lesson learned last week is that we'll have to work a bit to get families back out hiking with us, that was a hard one.  This one was really a thrill,.  I researched and did some water purification for this one, showing the boys how to use the tablets and and explaining that not all water can be drank straight from the river.