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Scouting Out Rockland |
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| Rockland - March
7, 2009 Boy
Scouts from Troop 337, Bessemer and Troop
209, Ontonagon once again had a joint
overnight camping adventure. Thirty-one
scouts went to Rockland where they spent the
weekend exploring caves, snow shoeing and
honing up their scout skills. This was their
first overnighter of 2009.
Pictured above and
below scouts work on their knot tying
prowess while waiting to go outside and work
on their map and compass challenges. Some
things in scouting never change. |
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Scoutmaster Bruce Jendrusena instructs
scouts on how to measure an objects height
without measurement devices. Scouts were
split up into several groups each armed with
a map, a pencil and a compass. Their mission
was to follow the map take several compass
readings and to measure the height of the
church to the top of its steeple. |
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| Yes, the official
scout compass is Made in America although
the modern day version is 99.995% plastic!
Some things in scouting do change! |
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| above while first
scout group heads on to the Veteran's
Memorial the next group approaches to
measure the church. |
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| and yet another
group arrive to take on the challenge! |
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| Scouts attempt to
triangulate on the flagpole at the Veteran's
Memorial. Amazingly enough the different
scout groups were all within a foot or two
on their height estimate. |
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| The boys then got
to snow shoe up the snowmobile path. Where
they would scout out the ruins of an old
church. |
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| As one might
expect on a snowmobile trail, scouts
encountered a couple of snowmobilers. |
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| All the scouts
returned from the excursion to the top of
the hill, however, two sets of snow shoes
were left behind. |
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Hey!
That little guy really does want to be a
scout one day. |
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| above Troop 209
Scoutmaster, Chuck Waymen discusses morning
exercise with Troop 337 Scoutmaster Bruce
Jendrusena. |
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| Kids wait for
lunch as Scoutmaster Waymen discusses the
effectiveness of their efforts to cleanup
their barracks. |
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| above Bruce
prepares the scouts for their afternoon
excursion to a haunted house. |
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| Lunch is served,
Cub Pack Leader Ron Store helps the boys to
their sandwich and the soup smorgasbord!
Scouts had their choice of seven different
variety of soups. |
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| Chuck decides to
do a taste test of each of the seven soups. |
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The Boy Scouts of America is the
nation's foremost youth-serving
organization. More than 4.7 million
young people participated in Scouting
programs last year 1.9 million of those
are Cub Scouts. |
