Camping at Camp Dan Beard, Broad Creek, 9-11 December 2022
Meet at Shed at 6:30 PM
Our next camping trip is to Camp Dan Beard at Broad Creek Memorial
Scout Reservation. This is our annual Senior Surprise trip. It is
tent camping and patrol cooking.
Actions required by participants before the trip:
- Complete
the Event Registration Form by 1 December.
The registration form now includes a section for adult participants
or parents who are not camping to volunteer to drive Scouts.
- We need a good count of participants to arrange car pooling and
to buy enough food for the adults.
- Re-register if you need to make updates or cancel your participation
after you submit your initial registration.
- The
cost for the trip is $10 for Scouts - pay the
troop treasurer at a Troop meeting,
plus the cost of patrol food.
General Information (Check back for
updates)
- This is a tent camping trip with patrol cooking.
- The theme of the Senior Surprise is Christmas Movies.
- The cost of the trip for Scouts is $10 to the troop and the Scout's
share of the food cost to the patrol.
- We are sleeping in tents this weekend.
- ALL SCOUTS must use a Troop Alps Mountaineering tent. There
are written instructions in the PASS Skills Instruction Manual and a
video on how to set up and take down a troop tent at http://troop497.org/html/information/ScoutSkills-PASS.html
- Adults may camp in a troop tent or their own tent.
- Scouts may sleep with one other scout within two years of age in
the same tent or alone in a tent near a buddy tent. It is the
Scout's responsibility to implement their parent's tenting
preference. Ask the quartermaster for a tent for yourself if you
want to tent alone.
- Special dietary restrictions: If your son has special dietary
restrictions you would like the troop to attempt to accommodate on
this trip, please contact Mr. Ken Krach at kf62krach@gmail.com
as soon as possible and also the patrol leader and family purchasing
the patrol food.
Transportation
Carpooling:
- All parents are highly encouraged to volunteer to drive on at least
one of the trips this fall.
- All adults attending the trip, and parents willing to drive scouts
but not camping, should confirm whether they will be driving scouts at
least one week before the trip when they register for the camping
trip. You should still complete the online registration process
if you are volunteering to drive but don't plan to camp.
- The Troop's transportation coordinator may actively recruit parents
to drive to/from the camping location if we don't have sufficient
adult volunteers to drive. You may be asked to drive one or both ways.
- Parents may choose to drive their own sons and not take other
Scouts. They should still meet at the shed on Friday and return to the
shed on Sunday with the Troop.
- Drivers have the right to require their passengers to wear masks
while in their vehicles and whether they will fill the middle seats in
their vehicles. Parents who don't want their sons wearing a mask
should have their son assigned to a driver who does not require
masking.
