Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Troop challenge

Troop competition - designed to test skills by competition (games with a purpose)

Some ideas :
  • orienteering course
  • emergency scenario - first aid exercise
  • riddle to solve.
  • build a flagpole and raise a flag
  • go blindfolded through a maze with only scout allowed to speak.
  • Relay carrying an egg while doing something else

Sunday, July 22, 2007

camping - July 2007

What : Tubing, Helen, Ga. Camped at Sleepy Hollow campground.
12 scouts, 3 adults attended.

Fun campout - included a lot of cooking, games, camp fire, rank advancements; Camping merit badge was worked on by the older scouts. A service project was conducted by the leadership to clean up a campsite that had been trashed by a suspected racoon.