Lost Pines Scout Camp

Troop 1913 went to Lost Pines Scout Camp the second week of June 2019, and it was awesome.

 

There were many classes like First Aid, Emergency Preparedness, Camping, Metalworking, and many more!

The staff gave us red water bottles that say Lost Pines on them.

The food there was really great. On Sunday night, a huge thunderstorm came by and we had to evacuate. A bolt hit our campsite and startled us all really bad. In the Dining hall, music was always playing. On Friday, "Sweet Caroline" was playing and everybody did the BUM BUM BUM!! We were having a great time.

Everybody was always playing chess in our campsite. Max and Austin were the two champs. The trading post was selling a magnetic chessboard with chess pieces. 2 people from our campsite bought it. We shared a campsite with Troop 876 and 1359 and got to know them better too.

The only problem with being outside so much is... mosquitoes. There were So. Many. Mosquitoes. I got over 10 bites and I think I got lucky. I know somebody who got over 70 bites!

All in all, Lost Pines was really fun. I can't think of anything that would have made this campout better. This was my favorite campout I've ever been on.

Scouting For Food

On January 26th, Troop 1913 went around and put flyers for Scouting for Food on doors in Harmony, Woodson, and Lockridge. Scouting for Food is a service project to care for people in our local communities who are hungry and those in need. Scouts returned the following Saturday, February 2, 2019, to pick up and deliver donations to their local food banks and pantries.

There were around 20 people putting up flyers, and about 6 people collecting the food. Our troop collected approximately 800 pounds of food, and our district collected OVER 9000 pounds of food! When we picked up the food, it felt like we were saving lives.

The Montgomery County Food Bank   

Campout Spring Creek

Over the 3-Day weekend, the scouts went to Spring Creek. We camped in the sand. When we put our tents up, we had to tie our tents to logs. The wind was already crazy, and one tent fell over twice.  We played King of the Hill and dug caves and hid from the wind. It was super windy, with a 'little' rain.

Evan was our chef, and we had hot dogs for dinner. We sat around the campfire and talked about ways that this could've been better. A cold front came in overnight, and we were woken up by a storm.

The tents blew over at one point, and the boys almost fell over. Chase and Jude's tent pinned them down, and when they were free, they camped in someone else's tent. When we saw their tent though, it was perfect.

The storm got pretty crazy and lots of gear was blowing around.  It was too much for some people, so we went to Evan's house at 3am and slept the night there.We stayed there, had 4 hours of sleep, went back, and had cereal and donuts. The experience was very... different.