Scouts, leaders and parents from Cache Valley’s Boy Scout Troop 1, thirty three to be precise, spent Friday evening through Saturday afternoon at the annual The Trapper Trails Council 2014 Scout O Rama, held at the Cache County Fairgrounds. This annual community wide event showcased the council’s first-class programs in many fun and exciting ways. Cubs, Boy Scouts, Varsity team members, Venturers and Explorers from across the Council joined together for a weekend of good-old Scouting fun!
Among the thirty three Troop 1ers were nine new members of our elite scouting unit, who all got the opportunity of being on their very first overnight campout! So many things to learn….like how long to chat and tell jokes with your tent mates after 10:00 pm, till your body decides to tell you it’s time to get your six hours of sleep! And…..like getting your neckerchief slide on correctly over your scout neckerchief for the morning flag ceremony…and not upside down!
A big hit for our new scouts and parents who woke up Saturday morning for breakfast, was the egg omelet in a sandwich bag breakfast! Pick up a plastic sandwich bag, place pre-cut fixins into your bag, such as cubed ham, mushrooms, grated cheese, green peppers and onions, and have two eggs cracked into your bag. Write your name using a permanent marker on your bag, and plop it into a large pot of boiling water. Let sit for 20 minutes….and waalaa! You have a tasty egg omelet!
Zip lining, Monkey Bridge walking, archery and BB gun shooting were some of the clear favorite activity exhibitors of the day, and among those events heavily attended by scouters in northern Utah were Troop 1’s water bottle rocket activity. Scouts from Troop 1 spent several hours cementing several PVC pipe pieces together to make four different water bottle launchers, which were all powered by bicycle pumps. And by all accounts, the hundreds of rocket launchers that dropped by our unit’s event loved launching 2 liter plastic bottles into the sky!
Next on Utah’s oldest and most active scouting unit…a two-day campout at City of Rocks National Reserve in Malta, Idaho May 16-18 rock climbing and rappelling! Should be another fun and adventure filled activity for Troop 1!
Among the thirty three Troop 1ers were nine new members of our elite scouting unit, who all got the opportunity of being on their very first overnight campout! So many things to learn….like how long to chat and tell jokes with your tent mates after 10:00 pm, till your body decides to tell you it’s time to get your six hours of sleep! And…..like getting your neckerchief slide on correctly over your scout neckerchief for the morning flag ceremony…and not upside down!
A big hit for our new scouts and parents who woke up Saturday morning for breakfast, was the egg omelet in a sandwich bag breakfast! Pick up a plastic sandwich bag, place pre-cut fixins into your bag, such as cubed ham, mushrooms, grated cheese, green peppers and onions, and have two eggs cracked into your bag. Write your name using a permanent marker on your bag, and plop it into a large pot of boiling water. Let sit for 20 minutes….and waalaa! You have a tasty egg omelet!
Zip lining, Monkey Bridge walking, archery and BB gun shooting were some of the clear favorite activity exhibitors of the day, and among those events heavily attended by scouters in northern Utah were Troop 1’s water bottle rocket activity. Scouts from Troop 1 spent several hours cementing several PVC pipe pieces together to make four different water bottle launchers, which were all powered by bicycle pumps. And by all accounts, the hundreds of rocket launchers that dropped by our unit’s event loved launching 2 liter plastic bottles into the sky!
Next on Utah’s oldest and most active scouting unit…a two-day campout at City of Rocks National Reserve in Malta, Idaho May 16-18 rock climbing and rappelling! Should be another fun and adventure filled activity for Troop 1!