Among the Hidden

G. Lynn Gable <grejarra@gmail.com>	11:37 AM (4 hours ago)
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in the summer of 2017, I decided to join the troop of my church as an assistant scoutmaster. Troop 37 was a small troop recovering from the shambles of a troop and weigelstown Pennsylvania, and it finally found a church to host themselves at. In referendum to an earlir post, with myself being an eagle scout, I decided to gladly accept this request to join.

Hidden valley scout reservation is a nationally accredited Boy Scout camp with over 50 acres filled with hiking and amenities, and post classes for well over 60 merit badges. in the center of Camp leading up to the campground my troop was in, there was a massive Creek with a stone bridge to take you from one side of the creek to the other. The scene was quite ideal like, so of course I had to stop and take some pictures.

there was a program there for the younger Scouts called The Dan beard program, and wish they would be working on requirements and advancements for their first three scouting rings. If completed successfully, then there would only be one or two requirements left to take the scouts to First Class Rank and their first year of scouting. And a higher chance of them getting their Eagle Scout award. So needless to say, we push our three kids in the troop through this quite quickly.

One of our Scouts was a bit of a Wanderlust, trying to spend every second of free time he had playing a game known to the youth as "gaga ball". it was played in the fenced-in area, and was a game of dodgeball and what you can only throw the ball towards the other players Shins. It was otherwise a free-for-all game. as fun as this game was, I sent him on the straight and narrow and made him report to us before running off and doing his own thing, as he was still young and sometimes directionally challenged. to help with all of the above, made him go on the optional hike for his Dan beard program and what she would be learning about 15 different species of Wildlife and hope to identify 10 of them for rank advancement. I walked on this hike with him, and that Scout Masters from McLean Virginia and Frederick Maryland, which one individual being and information security officer with a knee replacement, another individual being a biologist, and the scoutmaster one trip being a middle school guidance counselor. going on this site also proved to me that it is never too late in life to learn something new, and there is always something that you don't know about the world.

Back at Camp, our Scouts slept together into tents under Starry Skies with minimal rain the entire trip. Are safe scouting leader was up for the week to spend it with the boys, and he set up a solar array to charge some headlamps and cell phones for the scouts. This proves to be invaluable, especially since we were not burning any fossil fuels. scales from neighboring troops came to visit us, as our scoutmaster was a counselor for personal management and finance merit badges, and I'm at a young hockey player from Northern Virginia, as well as a scoutmaster from Kingston PA who had originally come from Portsmouth Maine and then lived in Boston before settling upon where he is now.

All in all

, I'm very impressed with this little Camp. I am partial to camp Tuckahoe, as I spent six Summers of my youth advancing Rank and learning achievements there, but for an extra 20 miles away from home, this camp was very nice and felt like home. I would actually argued that this Camp was a bit easier to navigate as well.

more information on becoming a Boy Scout can be found here. I might just be one of the most wholesome decisions you or your child can ever make.