Lumberjack Campout

Last year we did a Lumberjack Campout where we camped near where we could harvest firewood (with a permit, which we had).  We had some families in our neighborhood that needed firewood to heat their house for the winter, so we cut 4 cords of firewood and brought it to them and some other families.

That was one of our scout's favorite campouts last year, so we did it again this year!
We had the leaders working with the chainsaws to cut up the logs, and then the boys hauled it to the trailers, and split the wood before stacking it in the trailer.  We were able to take about 80% of the wood back home already split (the leaders helped split some)!  They were working hard!

It was UEA Weekend, so they didn't have school on Friday.  We were able to leave early and get started working Friday early.  We got all the firewood cut split and loaded on Friday, then drove down into the nearest town and played wallyball at the rec center, and then swam and sat in the hot tub to soothe our aching muscles from a hard day's work.  Then we drove back up the mountain to camp, had our campfire and went to bed.

Then next morning we had a lumberjack breakfast (pancakes, eggs and sausage), and packed up and came home.  Before dropping off everyone we unloaded the trailers and stacked the wood for the families that needed it.

It was fun to go on a trip that was centered around work, and to have the boys enjoy it!  They enjoyed working hard!  I think they're too sheltered and don't get to work hard very often, but they enjoyed it on this trip!

A Century of Honor

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is celebrating that they've been a part of Boy Scouts of America for 100 years now!  They are having a celebration titled "A Century of Honor" on October 29th with a program that's going to be awesome!

They have a Eagle Scout Choir of 394 Eagle Scouts that will be singing songs written for the event, and lots of awesome stuff!  I just found out that I get to be on that choir!  I'm pretty excited!

For more information, go to:
http://scouts100.lds.org/

Jamboral

We went to the council camp Jamboral last weekend and had a blast!  There were so many troops there!  They gave each boy a set of 15 trading cards that were all the same, and challenged them to go out and trade cards with the other 14 districts to get 15 different cards!  The cards were different Scout Handbook covers through the years, so it was fun to see what they looked like back to 1910!  And it got the boys talking to other scouts from other troops!

Lots of scouts, and this is just one camping area out of 20!

At the Jamboral they had tons of booths with stuff to do, some of the ones that looked the most fun were the slack line, BMX Racing, Bike Riding on the racetrack, and the color run. 

The color run was an obstacle course (probably close to 1/2 mile long) that had places where they threw colored chalk at you as you ran by.  We were covered in chalk by the end of the course, and we had a blast!  We had to climb over walls and hay bales, crawl thru tunnels, climb nets to ring a bell at the top, climb ropes, swing across things, pull a spare tire across a gravel yard and back, etc.  It was really well done, and a lot of fun!