Bryan has put together three other merit camps that follow a similar outline.
He has a great section staff and a heart for serving and reaching boys.
We are very much blessed to have him in our District...
The Trail Of The Grizzly II
Schedule:
Friday:
6:00pm Arrive
6:00-7:00 Prepare Foil-wrapped dinners.
7:00-7:30 Orientation
7:30-8:00 Eat Foil-wrapped dinners
8:00-10:00 First Aid Skills Merit
10:00-11:00 Snack and social time
11:00 Bed/quiet time
11:00-11:30 Commander meeting
11:30 Lights out
Saturday:
6:00am Reveille
6:30-7:300 Prepare and eat Breakfast (Goulash)
7:30-8:30 Cooking Merit basics
8:30-11:00 Rotation #1
11:00-12:00 Lunch (Spaghetti) and prepare cobbler
12:00-2:30 Rotation #2
2:30-3:00 Snack (cobbler prepared at lunch)
3:00-5:30 Rotation #3
5:30-6:30 Dinner(Hot Dogs and Chips)
6:30-7:00 Cleanup and pack up
7:00 Council of achievement
Note: We combined merits where we could; there is a lot of overlap.
Rotating classes were: Camping, Firecraft, Camp Safety.
Cooking basics were covered in a short session Saturday morning and various cooking requirements were covered during the three mealtimes including putting together a Dutch Oven Cobbler during lunch that was served and eaten during the Saturday afternoon snack time
The curriculum for the Merits was the Leaders copy of the Merits. The boys were given handouts throughout the camp based on the Merit that was being worked on. We had different Commanders teaching each of the Merits with all Commanders in attendance helping the boys.
The Outpost Commander was responsible for signing off each step for the boys in their Outpost. The Outpost Commander was also responsible for giving a list to the Section Commander of the boys in their Outpost that passed each Merit.
We had a Council of Achievement at the end of the Camp to recognize the boys for the Merits they earned. We did this with many of the parents in attendance since they were there to pick up the boys...
At 07:21 PM 12/16/2004 -0800, Jim Hufferd wrote:
Caving, huh? Sounds like fun, just don't get lost like Tom and Becky did. It was in that general area wasn't it, Mark?
Ken give us the low down on how you were able to pull this off, sounds like a lot of fun and some accomplishment thrown in for good measure. Perhaps if I started now, we could get something off the ground by next year. A couple of my right hand staff members resigned a couple of weeks ago for personal reasons and it just takes time to find the right person for the right job.
Our Sectional Winter Campout is mid-January up in the hills of Auberry close to the San Joaquin River. It's the best of both worlds as snow is about a 1/2 hour up the hill, but where we are at it's just cold. Until last year we always went up into Sequoia National Park and camped in the deep snow at about 7,000'. Some real nice snow caves have been built there. One year we came across a igloo that had been built just a few days earlier.
But so many came down with a "allergy" to snow that our numbers dropped quite a bit, so we had to re-think it all and came up with this plan of attack. It's really odd as we have actually had more at our Winter Campout than at our Fall. Too many leaders decided that it was just too cold and couldn't handle the snow, my outlook is that they just didn't prepare well enough.
Kenneth Komoto, Commander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adventure Rangers Outpost 193 Phone: (530)752-7197
Southpointe Christian Center Fax : (530)752-0329
Sacramento, Ca 95828
