Utah’s oldest and most adventurous scouting unit completed 30 hours of fun March 22-23.
Each March, three of Utah’s scouting council’s; Utah National Parks, Great Salt Lake, and the Trapper Trails Council has a Scouting for Food Drive, benefitting local food pantries throughout the state of Utah which are committed to fighting hunger.
Troop 1 each year provides a substantial service to the Cache Community Food Pantry during this annual food drive by providing scouts and leaders to assist in the intake of thousands of pounds of non-perishable food items as well as an assortment of non-food items. Troop 1 provided nearly 40 service man hours in Spring 2014 to this worthy cause.
Saturday, March 22nd, Troop 1 scouts and leaders visited the Cache County Jail which is located at the Cache County Sheriff’s Complex. Cache County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Joseph Pierson gave his “captive” audience a multimedia tour of the facility, learning about the demographics and daily functions of the jail. Troop 1 scouts learned obeying the laws absolutely beats the alternative….a stay in your local jail!
After the jail tour, Troop 1ers spent Saturday through Sunday afternoon, March 22-23 at Crystal Hot Springs in Honeyville, Utah, enjoying several swims in their natural mineral hot springs. According to Crystal Hot Springs, the natural hot spring ranges in temperature from 120 – 134°F (51°C – 57°C) and contains the highest mineral content (46,000 mg/L) found in any hot spring in the U.S.A. Additionally, out of the 90% of mineral databased hot springs in the world, Crystal Hot Springs is also the highest. Some of the minerals in this water include: Chloride, Sodium, Magnesium, Sulfate, Calcium, Potassium, Barium, Iron, Nickel, Chromium, Manganese, Zinc, Aluminum, Lead, and Selenium.
In addition to swimming and preparing a dinner, breakfast and lunch for everyone, and performing a respectful USA flag retirement ceremony, our scouts spent an hour+ learning about map and compass skills, culminating their orienteering skills with a triangulation exercise to find their precise location on a topographical map, as well as participating in a exercise to test their abilities to travel short precise distances on assigned compass readings to see how precisely each team follows directions. Each team (patrol) ended up on their second field exercise by narrowly missing by a few feet their programmed ending point location.
Each March, three of Utah’s scouting council’s; Utah National Parks, Great Salt Lake, and the Trapper Trails Council has a Scouting for Food Drive, benefitting local food pantries throughout the state of Utah which are committed to fighting hunger.
Troop 1 each year provides a substantial service to the Cache Community Food Pantry during this annual food drive by providing scouts and leaders to assist in the intake of thousands of pounds of non-perishable food items as well as an assortment of non-food items. Troop 1 provided nearly 40 service man hours in Spring 2014 to this worthy cause.
Saturday, March 22nd, Troop 1 scouts and leaders visited the Cache County Jail which is located at the Cache County Sheriff’s Complex. Cache County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Joseph Pierson gave his “captive” audience a multimedia tour of the facility, learning about the demographics and daily functions of the jail. Troop 1 scouts learned obeying the laws absolutely beats the alternative….a stay in your local jail!
After the jail tour, Troop 1ers spent Saturday through Sunday afternoon, March 22-23 at Crystal Hot Springs in Honeyville, Utah, enjoying several swims in their natural mineral hot springs. According to Crystal Hot Springs, the natural hot spring ranges in temperature from 120 – 134°F (51°C – 57°C) and contains the highest mineral content (46,000 mg/L) found in any hot spring in the U.S.A. Additionally, out of the 90% of mineral databased hot springs in the world, Crystal Hot Springs is also the highest. Some of the minerals in this water include: Chloride, Sodium, Magnesium, Sulfate, Calcium, Potassium, Barium, Iron, Nickel, Chromium, Manganese, Zinc, Aluminum, Lead, and Selenium.
In addition to swimming and preparing a dinner, breakfast and lunch for everyone, and performing a respectful USA flag retirement ceremony, our scouts spent an hour+ learning about map and compass skills, culminating their orienteering skills with a triangulation exercise to find their precise location on a topographical map, as well as participating in a exercise to test their abilities to travel short precise distances on assigned compass readings to see how precisely each team follows directions. Each team (patrol) ended up on their second field exercise by narrowly missing by a few feet their programmed ending point location.