What a summer camp! Merit badges, hiking, awards, funnel cake, rope making, waiters, drinking mop-water, ping-pong, zip-lines, a water slide and even a florist delivery – so much fun crammed into 7 days!

We had 48 scouts and 11 leaders attend Resica Falls this year and 19 new scouts completed the Dan Beard program. We woke up every morning at 6:30 am to start our day with the polar bear swim, water slide included! Scouts went on to earn numerous merit badges including the 2010-only Carpentry and Tracking.  Scouts demonstrated impressive leadership and teamwork, winning the camp-wide cooking, gateway building and Big Springs Crusade competitions.  Scouts also completed their Order of the Arrow ordeal and brotherhood. Scouts and leaders completed the mile swim and raced dragon-boats on the lake.  Afternoon expeditions to Fossil Rock, Signal Mountain, Lookout Point and Little Falls were also memorable adventures.

My backcountry blog challenge this month:  Who were the two scouts that won a free game of golf on the last hole of the Mother/Scout Mini-Golf outing on August 24th? If you are the first scout to give me both names (first and last) you will win fabulous prizes!