Troop Meeting • Monday, 6:30-8:00pm • MUMC
This Monday we'll be beginning some Pioneering, reviewing some first aid, and be finish High Adventure Proposals.SIGN UP for Upcoming Opportunities
Snow Base 2020
Which means I need to know which programs to register for!
Once we know what to register for, then we'll try to get a weekend. We'll double back before we make a reservation to make sure enough scouts and adults are available.
Check out the Snow Base Website
All first year Scouts will attend Snow Huskies, unless they're attached to a group of more experienced scouts that have been through that program. Then they can register for Spearhead. Logging Camp is cool looking, as is Dog Sledding. Please look at their website and decide and register with the troop by Thursday.
Please register with the troop here
Upcoming Troop Fundraisers
Funds raised help the troop go. We'll need many hands on deck for each of these.
Halloween Party concessions (Friday, Oct 25) - sign up here
Concessions at MN Zoo - Nov 3 - participants have been contacted.
Pancake Breakfast Nov 17 - look or a sign up next week.
Thanks to Mrs. Barber for setting up sales tables at storefronts this weekend! The scouts that participated found a lot of success. Remember if you're interested in setting up a table at a location or at your place of worship, reach out to Mrs. Barber.
And never discount there's always a chance to sell door-to-door.
Wreaths
Get out there and sell, sell, sell. Remember Wreath delivery day is Nov. 16 or 23 - TBD. You should have them to customers before Thanksgiving.
One trick going door-to-door for popcorn and wreath sales is to make a 1/2 sheet saying "sorry I missed you" with some contact information and asking if they'd like to support you in Scouting. The money raised will help you get to camp where you learn things like:___.
Orders and Money Due
Popcorn and Wreath Money and final orders are due next Monday, Oct 28.
November • Pioneering Boot Camp at Collopy Farm
Sign up to Camp at the Collopy Farm. We were there last spring and had a blast. This time we're avoiding fish hooks.
Here's a link to our Troop Pioneering Booklet. This was put together by Scoutmaster CG himself, Clarke Green.
Check out Pioneering MB here.
Check out a super cool Scout Pioneering website here.
Check out another super cool pioneering blog from South Africa called Ropes and Poles.
Here's some pictures of pioneering projects from Israel that are parade characters - reminiscent of lashed together giant Mayday Puppets.
Here's a link to our Troop Pioneering Booklet. This was put together by Scoutmaster CG himself, Clarke Green.
Check out Pioneering MB here.
Check out a super cool Scout Pioneering website here.
Check out another super cool pioneering blog from South Africa called Ropes and Poles.
Here's some pictures of pioneering projects from Israel that are parade characters - reminiscent of lashed together giant Mayday Puppets.
December • Board game Camp
There will be plenty of room for us to leave our games up and move on to something else. We'll be sleeping and "cooking" elsewhere.
Board Game Camp is Dec 13-15. Sign Up Here
Philmont 2021
Lottery for Treks Opens in days!
We will put in for at least one crew for summer 2021. Crews interested in a 12-day (or 7-day) trek must register for the Philmont Lottery, which occurs in November a year and a half before the summer for which the lottery is drawn. Trek dates are assigned via this lottery. Philmont is not only the largest youth camp in the world (in terms of land), it is the most attended - there are 40 crew spots available each day from June 8, 2021, to August 9, 2021. Over 22,000 Scouts and Leaders are expected to go on 12-day treks this summer. Every day, 350 arrive, 350 leave, and 3,500 are hiking in the backcountry.
If we put in for two crews, we'd get the same dates.
Youth participation Requirements: Participants must be registered members of the BSA who will be at least 14 years of age OR completed 8th grade and be at least 13 years of age prior to participation. Philmont will not make any exceptions to this rule.
Adult Leadership
The best available adult leadership should be recruited to accompany each crew. Two (2) registered adult leaders 21 years of age or over are required at all Scouting activities. There must be a registered female adult leader 21 years of age or older in every unit serving females. A registered female adult must be present for any activity involving female youth. Each crew MUST have at least TWO (2) BSA registered adult Advisors. Philmont strongly recommends that each crew participate with THREE (3) adult Advisors. This provides flexibility in the event that an adult Advisor needs to leave the trail. Each crew is required to have a majority of youth participants; the maximum number of adults (21 years and over) is four (4) per crew.
Sign up if you'd like to go.
This is just an interest survey. This is not an accountable commitment.
Committing to a Philmont Trek is not something to take lightly; it is rigorous, dangerous, and expensive (with travel and expenses it comes to about $1400/each).
Please review the Philmont Risk Advisory in detail to understand all risks and guidelines for health information. All participants must not exceed the maximum acceptable weight limits for backpacking. Once at Philmont, all participants must be able to pass Philmont's health and weight restrictions as stated in the Philmont health form, or they will be sent home at their own expense. These requirements are strictly enforced and refunds are not given to those who arrive at the base and do not meet these requirements. Every Philmont Trek will involve hiking with a 35-60 lb. backpack in an isolated mountain wilderness between 6,500 and 12,500 ft. elevations for 5-12 miles per day. Philmont recommends that participants carry a pack weighing up to 30 percent of their body weight. Summer climatic conditions include temperatures from 30ºF - 90ºF, low humidity (10 to 30 %), and frequent, afternoon thunderstorms.
Upcoming Schedule
BSA Troop 1 Facebook Group
For those of you on Facebook, feel please join our closed group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/mnt3001/
Scoutmaster's Minute - Sending the right Signals
This old SM Minute came back to me today as I was hiking a route following the trail signs some scouts set out for me to finish up their Signs, Signals, and Codes Merit Badge.
After a shipwreck, the lone survivor washed up onto a small deserted island. He thanked God to be alive and then prayed for rescue.
On the first day, he managed to build a hut from palm fronds in which he stored the few possessions he had salvaged from the wreckage. He also made a fairly soft sleeping pad and found fruit and coconuts to eat. He built a small cooking fire pit in front of his hut and continued to pray for rescue.
A couple weeks into his hardship, while he was foraging for food, the wind suddenly picked up and became so strong it knocked a few trees down. When he returned to his hut, the survivor saw that the wind had blown coals on the dry fronds of his hut and burned it to the ground. All of his meager possessions were destroyed.
In anger and frustration, he cried, "God, how could you do this to me?"
A few hours later, as he was sitting in despair, a ship rounded the island and a rowboat came ashore to rescue him.
The man was ecstatic and asked, "How did you know I was here?"
They replied, "We saw your smoke signal."
