This year's Gold Rush was cut down from a weekend camping trip into a one day event due to a serious snow storm forecast to hit our area Thursday night into Friday. This is kind of ironic since this is the one year that the "Klondike" theme was being suspended in favor of a California 49er theme complete with the sleds having been converted to wagons!
Scouts participate in the 2 man saw competition.
Of course the boys of Troop 67 had some awesome fun in the 6" of snow, but about half the units scheduled to attend cancelled in the days leading up to the weekend. Our scouts did us proud by bringing home the typical assortment of prizes. This year's honors are:
1. Third place in the Golden Compass to the Ram patrol.
2. First place for Best Scout Run Station to the Godzilla patrol.
3. Fastest time of the day in Two Scout Saw - Michael and Ethan.
Our station was a lashing project snowball catapult.
As you could guess the weather played very well into our troop's station - a catapult lashing project. Another lucky break was that the planning committee modified the day's events so that patrols traveled in pairs to every station. This set up a snowball fight for each group of visiting scouts! It's so nice when things come together perfectly. When our own scouts returned to our campsite they had a good long snowball war while their foil packs were cooking on the open fire. Complete set of photos from the day are here.
Turns out that Gold Rush as a one day event was alot of fun. Check out the video.
Today was a busy day for the scouts, leaders, and families of Boy Scout Troop 67 Wilmington, Delaware. The day began with the annual Scout Sunday at Aldersgate United Methodist Church. Aldersgate is the charter organization which sponsors Troop 67. The scouts acted as greeters and ushers for both morning services. A special highlight for the troop was that 6 recent eagle scouts made up the color guard at the 11 a.m. service and each young man spoke to the congregation about his path to eagle and his eagle project.
The troop held a general Court of Honor in the afternoon. This Court of Honor (COH) is our 50th since the troop was established in 1996. This COH included lunch for those present and rank advancements, merit badges, and awards were presented. In addition to 3 rank advancements and 7 merit badges, the special awards were for Journey to Excellence (Gold) to the entire troop, 100 Nights of Camping award to one scout, and the announcement of the winners of the annual Cook Off competition - the Beaver patrol. We were honored to have Pastor Chris Pennington join us for lunch.
The Moose patrol are leading the points competition at mid-year. Keep up the good work!
