Camping with the 11-year-old Scouts

This past weekend our Boy Scout troop's 11-year-old Scouts and their Dads went camping. As you can tell from this extremely serious picture on the right, we had a good time! :-)

But seriously, we DID have a great time, and we even got a lot of scouting done. A couple of the younger Scouts got fires lit and helped cook for the troop, we did some orienteering stuff, we reviewed maps, we identified indigenous plants and wildlife (for the record, I was NOT identified as part of the wildlife), and we went over and passed off many rank advancement requirements. It was a very fun, productive campout.

As for where we camped, we just drove north on the 55 for about an hour and turned off toward Sage Hen Reservoir. Just picked a nice little spot at the side of the road up near Cascade. It turned out to be a great spot! Not very big for a Capture-The-Flag game, but with only four Scouts, we would have had a tough time doing that, anyway. And it was small enough to keep our little bundles of energy contained! :-)

We got no rain while we were up there, but MAN it was sure damp. Everything was absolutely soaked in the morning. As you can tell from this pic on the left (three of the Dads, plus Scoutmaster Christensen), we bundled up overnight. We didn't actually check the temp, but we believe it got down to 36-38 overnight. Nice and cozy!!! :-)

I have uploaded 29 pictures from camping; check them out here on Flickr, or here on Facebook. Enjoy.