By Neil Ishikawa
April 8-10, the newest members of Troop 380 attended our annual training session, to learn the Troop 380 way of camping. A big thank you goes out to Mr. Potter for fitting us into the Indian Grinding Rock trip. We had to cancel our scheduled training session at Camp Pollock due to large amounts of water outside the designated river area.
I have to say this was the coldest campout I have ever been on. And the previous campout was the Klondike Derby in five feet of snow. So this year’s new Scouts look to be a hardy batch of campers because the weather did not seem to faze them.
Parents do not be shocked; they were always the first ones to be done cooking and the first ones to be done cleaning. The only time they lagged behind was putting tents away, but the other Scouts slept in U’macha’tam’ma’, so they did not have to put tents away.
They had a great class session, put on by the older Scouts. I want to thank Josh, Adam, Travers, Nick, Phil and Alex for teaching knots, first aid, fire building, knife and axe safety, cooking, and more. A special cool guy thank you to Mr. Kuykendall, who took us on a hike and introduced us to geocaching, and yes we found the cache. A big gold star goes to Josh K.; he really set the bar for what a troop guide should be. If you ever get to go camping with any of these new Scouts and they are doing it right, I am sure Josh had something to with that.
