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What is it: Our
2010 Camporee/NiteHike/Venturing Rendezvous is a
two day event to challenge scouts in their teamwork and Scout
skills. Starting on Friday with a special campfire, Camporee will continue on Saturday with Patrol
Challenge—a series of activities and challenges held throughout the day. Near dusk Scout-led patrols will launch out
and navigate through a network of trails, visiting stations where they test
their scout skills.
“The
Spirit of Baden-Powell “
will
be the Theme for this year’s Camporee/NiteHike.
Click
here to download a copy of our Camporee Unit
Leaders’ Guide
Check
out the article from Boy’s Life Magazine about last year’s NiteHike here!
When
is it? 6:00 pm Friday, Sept 24th through 12:00 pm Saturday, Sept 26th.
Who can participate? Scouts, Venturers, 2nd Year Webelos,
and Junior and above Girl Scout units are invited to participate in the
events. Scouts and Venturers
will be welcome on Friday night for a special 100 Years of Scouting
campfire. Webelos
dens will be welcome to participate in Saturday events and may camp with a
Troop if Sponsored by that Troop. On
Saturday, each group operates as a “patrol”, accompanied by a minimum of two
adult leaders. We will be limiting attendance to the first 350 Scouts, Webelos, and Venturers who sign
up, with preference given to units that operate a station.
Where
will it be held? Ranger Creek State Airfield, near Greenwater,
WA, approximately 30 minutes east of Enumclaw
What is the agenda?
The specific agenda remains in work, but in general, here’s our plan:
Fri, 24 September
·
4-8 pm
check-in, set up tents
·
8:30 pm—SPL/Scoutmaster Meeting/Cracker Barrel
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9 pm –
Campfire– “the Spirit of Baden-Powell”
·
10:30 pm—Taps/lights
out
Saturday, 25 September
·
7 am
–Reveille
·
9 am– Assembly/Announcements/Patrol Check in
·
9 am-3
pm—Patrol Challenges
·
3 pm (or
earlier)-- Units set up stations
·
4 pm– Patrols
begin NiteHike event (sunset at 7:15 pm)
·
Midnight (or
earlier at Unit preference)– wrap up NiteHike
- Units
that wish to leave may pack out early and depart when done with
NiteHike.
Sunday, 26 September
·
9 am– Reveille
·
10 am– Scouts Own/Divine Services
·
Break camp
Why
should my troop/pack want to attend?
Here’s some of the comments from previous NiteHikes:
- “the whole experience
was terrific for the boys.”
- “Here's
where SCOUTING REALLY PAYS OFF. When you get to see Scouts actively work
together in a relatively harsh environment to plan and complete
something for others on a rush basis with very limited adult oversight,
and have fun doing it, you know Scouting works and you remember why you
are part of it! I'm looking
forward to next year”
- Thank
you for organizing and running this wonderful event.
- We
look forward to coming next year with some Girl Scouts as well as our
first-year Boy Scouts
- Great
job again, we had a great time! I strongly believe this type of activity
provides a great many learning situations should the scouts look at them
positively and the adults present them as such. You will always hear
talk about "it's too hard or adverse for scouts at night" but
that's what make it so cool. The scouts get to do some things and have
experiences at night they would not normally have. Someday it may help
them keep their cool and think and work things out in a not so controlled
environment.
- My
WEBELOS had a great time... I'm sure most of them will be in for next
year
- We
had a great time. My youth mostly focused on setting up surprise yells
for the other units and less on the actual stations, but they did
participate in a few and had fun.
- Our
boys had a really good time. The activities weren't so hard that
they couldn't do them even though they were Webelos.
- We
had a great time at the station. We were at #18, the blind folded rope
course. We did have a situation mid way thru the night with bees that
I'm sure you heard about
- It
is something different. You could do the same type of event during the
day, but it would not be quite as special. Having it at night adds a
little bit of mystery and excitement to it.
- It
was a good adventure...it also gave my WEBELOS a chance to take a sample
of boy Scouts
It was a good length. I liked the variety of the stations. I
liked the ease of registering. It was a great idea to use roads
for most of it rather than trails. It was nice to have a mowed
spot to put up tents.
- Good
chance for scouts to experience new things, learn that they control more
of their situations/lifes then they think.
- “Had a
great time! The location was great - I am sure there aren't many places
around that are that big and available for this
type of event.”
- “The
boys were perfectly challenged by the trail and stations. I think some stations could be better,
but when there are more of them and less time at each, that will work
out”
- “The stations and events were great!”
- “one fun night of hiking”
- “Thought it was a great event and I think all
the boys from our troop really enjoyed it, both the hikers and the
station managers… Let's do it
again next year!!”
- “Our troop is ready to go again next year and
that is saying a lot!... It was tough on all
the boys and adults. And this is a good thing, the boys were able to
test there skills under a great amount of stress. And they were able to
see what they can really do! A great eye opening experience.”
- “thanks for a really cool event”
- “It was
simply fun! I gathered that most if not all the scouts loved it, even
beyond staying up all night.”
What
does it cost? $8 per Scout/Webelos/Venturer for
registration (adults leaders are free). We will pre-register units to participate
on a first-come, first-served basis and limit participation to the first 350
scouts to sign up. Units after that will be held on a waiting
list. We are requesting a deposit of
$4 per scouts with pre-registration and the balance due on arrival at the
NiteHike.
How will the Patrol
Challenges/NiteHike work? Every scout will
participate as a member of a "patrol"-- patrols should have at
least 5 to 9 members. Patrols will
check in at at Headquarters on Saturday Morning and
will be given “Military Documents”, including a map and a score sheet before
heading out to confront a series of Patrol Challenges designed to test their
teamwork during the day. Starting at 4
pm, patrols will report to HQ at 5 minute intervals, will be given a critical
military mission (and a route map) and launch onto the trail to navigate
their way to 10-20 “stations” scattered throughout the forest. Each
station is sponsored by a troop, crew, or organization and is manned by a
group of older Scouts or Venturers. At each
station the patrol will check in (their patrol name, number, and time of
arrival is recorded) and is then challenged by a variety of activities based
on the theme. The activities will challenge their scouting skills and
test their teamwork—examples include obstacle courses, first aid challenge,
trivia tests, Kim’s games, or knot races, earning points. Once
activities at a station are completed, the patrol then navigates its way to
the next station based on navigation information found at that site. Some stations will not be manned, but will
be observed and patrols will be judged by the observers. Patrols are not required to complete every
station (younger scouts will probably not complete the entire hike) and may
“check out” at any point during the hike, but all patrols must check out at
HQ before midnight.
- Patrols
and station crews will receive patches for each member of their patrol, as
well as a ribbon for patrol flag. Members of the highest scoring
patrols, venturing crews, and Webelos dens will be
recognized by special awards.
- All patrol
members should have their Scout Ten Essentials, including compass,
flashlights and extra batteries, trail snacks, a mug or cup for cocoa (some
stations may have cocoa), water, hiking boots (not tennis shoes), and good
raingear
Other
Questions?
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