- The need to urinate at night increases in direct relation to the hour past midnight, layers of clothing worn, occupants in your tent, and inches of rain since sunset. Curiously, it increases in ‘inverse’ relation to the outside temperature.
- The ground under shoulders compresses without sunlight while the ground under feet expands.
- Rocks and sticks rise above dirt when irritated by tent flooring fabric.
- Feet expand when removed from hiking boots. The same law applies to tents and tent bags, clothing and backpacks, and sleeping bags and stuff sacks.
- Backpack strap widths decrease with the distance hiked. To compensate, the weight of the backpack increases.
Camping trip and Court of Honor moved
Our camping trip has been moved to 3/20 – 3/22.
Our Court of Honor has moved to 3/24 to be after the trip.
Wise words from a happy camper
- Any stone in a hiking boot migrates to the location of maximum pressure.
- Remaining distance to a given campsite remains constant as twilight approaches.
- Number of mosquitoes at any given location is inversely proportional to the volume of remaining repellent.
- The probability of finding a latrine is one over the number of poison ivy plants per acre.
- The square feet of level ground available for tents equals the degrees from horizon of the setting sun.
Patrol flag making
Reminder, the meeting on 1/14 will be a patrol flag making evening.
Your patrol flag will be with you for the year and will be needed at the march camping trip to hang any totems earned from the “Are you tougher than a Scout Leader” challenges.
Challenges will feature:
Fire-building, cooking, log cutting, plant identification, animal identification, first aid, knot tying, tent building, and physical fitness.
Scout meetings for the new year
Scout meetings will resume on 1/7 at 7pm in the church.
Lock-in update
Due to leader illness, the lock-in will run from 8pm to 11pm tonight. We don’t have 2 leaders after 11. Sorry for the change.
Scoutmaster Cory has fallen ill, and Mr. Doug is working.
Mr. Terry has lined up Mr. Daniel Tracy, program director for Camp Friedlander, to be the second adult but he has to leave at 11.
Lock-in!
Troop lock-in at St. Lawrence starts at 8pm on Friday night. Hope to see you there!
Bring a snack!
12/4 update
Let’s finish the year out strong.
We’re working on knots.
We have a lock-in on 12/13.
There will not be a meeting 12/24 and 12/31.
We hope to see everyone at the meeting on Tuesday.