Camporee at Cutler

The troop went to our district camporee at Camp Cutler on the 17th and 18th.  They started with a night hike into the campsite (because we're that awesome) while all the other troops just drove up and unpacked their gear.  Saturday there were games to play and things to see, and when the boys got bored we went on a hike.

The games were lame according to some, but they look like they're having fun.

Christian is always smiling:)

Concentrate!!!

King of the World!?

He looks...heroic.

Beautiful fall colors.  They hiked up to the overlooks right before they left.

Contemplative moment.

Very contemplative

Here's the campsite.  It was a great time.

Thanks to the adults that pitched in and made this possible, especially Brent for taking the pictures.

Stake Court of Honor

Our troop is doing a great job working on advancement and merit badges.

Hi Tor

The troop went camping and hiking at Hi-Tor. They worked on getting a few merit badge requirements done.

Camp Massawepie

Scout Camp Departure

The boys are off to the Adirondacks for a week of Scout Camp.

Memorial Day

Every Memorial Day our ward has a pancake breakfast and flag ceremony. The scouts did a great job as usual posting the colors.

Biking Merit Badge

The Scouts are working on their biking merit badge, and have recently gone on a couple of bike rides along the canal.

Fishing

Court of Honor

A court of honor was held Tuesday evening. Our troop had 5 advancements and earned 16 merit badges.

Daniel organized and conducted the meeting.

Ashton pinning his mother.



Dessert was a dutch oven treat.

Personal Management

John Garnish is a Personal Management Merit Badge Counselor, who spent the last two Tuesdays helping our scouts work on fulfilling the requirements for this merit badge.

This is a required badge for Eagle and takes 13 weeks to finish.

Visit to Strong Radiology

Tuesday evening the troop visited Strong Memorial Hospital's Radiology Department. Brother Jared Christensen, a radiology resident at Strong, led the troop on a behind the scenes tour and discussion of all things radiology.




























Some of the highlights included seeing X-rays of a hand that had been caught in a saw,









Christian has a little testing done,



















and Kristoffer gets some work done on his neck.





















Thanks to Brother Christensen for a great evening of Scouting.

Tuesday night dutch oven cooking

Tuesday night was an eventful one for the scouts. It was built around Bro. Yerman's dutch oven cooking. We got to sample cinnamon rolls, peach cobbler, and pineapple upside down cake all made from dutch oven's right outside of the church. Sorry about the charcoal briquette and lighter fluid smell in the hallways, but we promise it all stayed outside except the smoke and food.

While we were cooking Bro. Yerman talked to us about meal planning for a camp out: how to make a duty roster and types of food to put on the menu. Then we tried to make the menu, and well, that didn't go so hot so instead of baking next Tuesday we need to continue planning for our camp out on the 16th and 17th.

I also revealed to the boys that we are going to change how we do meals. We are going to follow the Patrol Method and have two patrols, the scouts and the geezers! Scouting was set up to teach values and as Baden Powell (founder of Boy Scouts) said,

"The patrol method is not a way to operate a Boy Scout troop, it is the only way. Unless the patrol method is in operation you don't really have a Boy Scout troop."

I am going to do my best to guide our young men in forming their troop, and in doing so it will teach all of us leadership, responsibility, and the other attributes in the scout law.