Winter Camp

Hi Pack,

Wow what a winter camp !
I hope you all had fun. This weekend was jam packed with activities. Here's a summary of what we did:

Friday Night :

• Arrival was between : 7-8pm with the "SlowNeal's" arriving late.
  
• A leather craft was setup for those who were interested. Others could play games.
• Bed at 10pm (however some were still awake at midnight)
• Leaders light's out pas 12:30am
  

Saturday :

• Leader/parent wake-up at : 6:30am
  
• Cub wake-up (pots & pans) at : 7:00am
• Grand Howl opening. This is different from the "normal" opening we do in the gym. Really cool.
• Breakfast @ 8:30am
  
• Snowshoe hike
  
• Skaking and/or burling. Burling is a 1st Rockland exclusive game that is a mix between curling and bowling ... really fun. Some of the kids opted for skating. However designated area was pretty bumpy (good for broom ball though) so we shoveled a new area that was quite good.
• Lunch at 12:00
• Tobogganing. Here Akela did his usual score cards, giving points to the best wipeouts and believe me we had many.
  
• Afternoon craft : God's Eye which is a Mexican/Mayan traditional craft
• Free time. Here the cubs spread out to various activities. Some did tobogganing, others played in the small park while others went x-country skiing.
• Supper at 5pm
• Practicing of skits (some free time for indoor games)
• Camp fire with skits, cheers and songs.
• Mug up
• Light's out at 10pm. This time however the kids were asleep very quickly
• Leaders/parents played cards 'till 12-12:30am

Sunday

• Leaders/parent wakeup at 7am
• Youth wakeup (no pots & pans) at 7:30am. In our pack, the kids, when they wakeup, have to get dressed and brush their teeth. On the last day they also have to have everything packed and ready to go. All this before breakfast. However breakfast was at 8:30 so that gave them less than an hour to do all this. Needless to say that alot were not done. Lessoned learned.
• Breakfast at 8:30
• Scout's Own
• Broom ball game and burling
• Lunch
• Free time. Some opted for skiing, others snowshoeing and others tobogganing.
• Pick-up was between 2-3pm

All in all this was a great weekend. The kids were "generally" well behaved, the food was good (well not everybody thinks so...) and the weather was excellent (this everybody agrees on). We had 19 kids and 9 adults.

This camp is located near Val des Bois (see map), Quebec and it is called : Camp de l'Amitié. It has been there since 1964. I think it's an all-around very good camp and I would recommend it. However it boils down to opinion, expectations and past experiences so don't take my word for it.

I'd like to thank all the leaders Hathi (Christine Rozon) and Akela (Bill Cain) and for this well planned and executed event. I'd also like to thank the parent volunteers who attended, for without them these events would not be so : Carol, Craig, Laura, Scouter Christine, Scouter Mark and Tracy.

YIS
Shere Khan

PS: Pics and videos have been uploaded

Winter Camp Handouts

For those who did not get the handouts here are a couple of links for download:

Equipment list
Directions

Here's a "Google Maps" Link as well:

Camp de l'Amitie

Drop off is between 7-8pm tomorrow (Friday) night and pick-up is between 2-2:30pm on Sunday.

I really apologize for not getting this info on the web sooner. It may be too late but better late than never I guess. :-)

YIS
Shere Khan

News Update

Wow it's been a while since I've posted ... sorry.

As you know the Wolverines won the 1st heat. We haven't agreed on a prize yet but very soon.

January was quite exciting we had our annual Mad Trapper event at CampJJ. What a blast. The kids did snow shelter building, winter fire building, tobogganing and I think the highlight was the dog sledding. A local firefighter who dog sleds on his spare time gave the kids a good time. The weather was quite cold. I think it was minus 26 that saturday morning. However it did warm up to minus 11 that day. See pics.

February promises to be quite busy too. They had a Cubaree this past weekend for the 1st and 2nd year cubs. The 3rd year cubs had the option of attending the Scouts Sub-Zero camp for the day.

The winter camp is coming up soon at the end of February. Please don't for get to sign-up (this week) and pay.

DON'T forget that this week's AND next week's Tuesday meeting is at Bill's (Akela) place. We will be cutting out the kars in Bill's workshop.

YIS
Shere Khan