September 2001 Parkers Creek, Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, Apex, NC
This "starter" trip is an overnight camping experience in preparation for longer trips. Basic hiking and camping skills are learned first-hand in the rolling woods of the Piedmont. We will be also teaching basic canoeing skills to the boys.
October 2001 Mt. Rogers, Marion, VA
This will be the first three-day trip for the troop this year. A physically challenging trip, yet within the range of all the scouts. Impossible to tire of, Mount Rogers always has something new. A serious climb from most directions, the ridge line from Pine Mountain to Mount Rogers is a treasure trove of rolling grassland, rhododendron thickets, and deciduous groves, capped by a dense stand of fir around the peak. A hawthorne grove on a knoll off a southern spur provides a favorite off-trail camp site that remains largely unused.
November 2001 Patrol Trips
Patrol trips are focused on three elements of camping for the individual patrols: 1.) site selection, 2.) trip coordination, 3.) an easy fun weekend. Trips can be as simple as back yard over nighters. Adult oversight and approval are required.
December 2001 Caving, tba, TN
This troop will stay in cabins in a Tennessee state park and spend the day exploring one of the many Tennessee caves.
January 2002 Uwharrie Trail, Troy, NC
The Uwharrie Mountains provide gentle climbs with beautiful hardwood groves, particularly some marvelous stands of Beech. The Uwharrie Trail is long enough that it takes us three years to rotate through each of its sections. This year the trip has beenm lengthened to three days. The trip will include two nights on the trail and two and a half days of rolling trail. Weather can be a challenge. In more than one case, due to a forecast for extreme cold weather, the trip has been converted to a day hike. The two nights provide a challenge of cold weather camping. Or as a previous scout liked to paraphrase, "Many are cold, but few are frozen."
February 2002 Staff Trip (Grandfather Mountain, NC)
This year's staff trip will be a backcountry trip in the Grandfather Mountain area.
March 2002 Merchant Mill Pond State Park, NC
This is a canoe camping adventure. The troop will put in a the state park boat launch and canoe with all of their camping gear to a group canoe campsite reachable only be canoe. Merchant Millpound is a beautiful cypress swamp.
April 2002 Orange District Camporee
A good chance for fellowship with brother scouts from other units. The program is seldom exciting but this leaves more opportunity for good visiting time. The Saturday night campfire is always exciting with the Indian dancers of the Order of the Arrow, The Brotherhood of Friendly Service, and the tapout of candidates from the troop.
May 2002 Kerr Lake Bike Trip
This trip is a long one day fifty mile bike trip Saturday with an overnight at the W. D. Campbell Scout Reservation at Kerr Lake. The bike trip includes a car and trailer that follow to pick up folks with equipment failures or who are ready for a rest. The lake provides fishing, swimming, and an opportunity for canoeing or water skiing as equipment allows. Those who want to skip the cycling, can go directly to the lake. Families are welcome for the whole trip but are particularly encouraged to join Sunday for swimming and a picnic lunch.
June 2002 Summer Camp
This week of intense advancement at Summer Camp provides the scouts an opportunity to complete a series of merit badges especially in aquatics, crafts, and areas like Environmental Science that work well with a daily attention. Class time is mixed with free time, recreation, and campfires that are put on by a consistently enthusiastic and well trained staff.
July 2002 Northern Tier Canoe Base, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, MN, and Quetico Provincial Park, Manitoba, CA
Six scouts, two adults and a guide will go out on a seven day, hundred mile canoe trip in the backwoods of Minnesota and Manitoba, Canada. Northern Tier is the Philmont of canoeing. The boys will paddle, portage and camp on the lakes of the Boundary Waters, fishing and sharing the wilderness with bears, eagles, mosquitos and black flies.