Scouts & Parents – Splash time is coming very quickly.

Here are some details and a list of those that I know are going on the trip. 

 

Attached is the permission form.  Please print it off and give to me at the COH or give to Jason Calhoun at the next meeting on the 23rd (I will be out of town).

On the list below, you can see the scout patrols, and who is cooking.  Every scout and adult needs to pay $10 to the Cook in their patrol.  Please pay at the COH, or on  the 23rd.  Please try your best to bring correct change.  Twenty dollar bills complicate the process.

 

All scouts eat before you come to the church, before we leave.

Always travel in our Class A shirts (No neckerchiefs).

Bring $10 for gas to be given to Jeff Helton on Friday.  If you are taking your car, you don’t pay.

You are welcome to bring drinks and snacks in the vehicles – we practice “Leave No Trace” there also.  No food that makes a mess.  All drinks must have a twist top.  No sugar sodas.

 

Things to bring:

Hat, bathing suit, swim shoes, sun screen, life jacket if you own one (put your name on it).  Swim shoes can be Crocks, old tennis shoes, what ever  . . . No flip flops!!

Nalgene bottle and mess kit.  Normal sleep and clothing requirements.

 

Food – Every scout and adult needs to bring your lunch for Saturday.  Backpack type lunch food.  Jerky, canned meat, tuna and crackers, trail mix, granola bars, . . .  You will be eating lunch on the river, not at our camp.  Each boat captain will have a dry bag.  The scouts in each boat will put their food, in a zip lock bag, then in the captain’s dry bag.

Water – one Nalgene bottle of water should be enough.  We don’t know the weather yet.  I would bring a bungee cord or small piece of rope to keep the water bottle tied to your boat.

 

Some of our adults will be in Kayaks, you will need to provide your own dry bags.

 

New scouts may want to look at some UTube video on how to paddle a canoe . . .

 

This is probably enough for now.

 

Remember canoe training this Sat the 13th – 8:30 at Baden Powell.