Saturday, July 1, 2017

Daily Bugle - Summer Camp Final Edition


 Day Pack? Check.  Hiking Boots? Check. It's off to merit badge class.




This camp is beautiful even at twilight.




 Instruction on Safety Afloat, before getting into the canoes.




 Instructions before Geocaching




 First Aid class. Nothing to worry about.




Photography merit badge




 Final Night Campfire




Camp attendance at flags




Our troop retrieving the colors of the United States and Colorado




One of the few adult sightings - not taking a nap




More Photography practice




 Early morning hike to the top of the world




 Actually, early morning hike to the next mountain over



Hmm - helmets, and ropes...climbing perhaps?

I may not have gotten all the captions exactly accurate, but they do make for a good story.  Special thanks to Richard, Darren, Suzette, Dan, Eric, and Ginny for without the adults going with the scouts to summer camp, the scouts wouldn't be able to go.  The weather rock did it's work - even though they didn't have one, the weather was ideal all week.  The scouts in my car voted the camp trading post the best trading post ever.  Tons of merit badges earned.  Trail to first class was well attended, we will have a bunch of first class scouts in no time.  Pictures courtesy of E. Lupo.

It was a very good week.

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