City Council Meeting Visit

On Tuesday, July 14, we went to a City Coundil Meeting for Gilbert as part of the troop working on the Citizenship in the Community merit badge. At the beginning Mayor John Lewis had all the scouts come to the front and we all got to introduce ourselves by telling them our name, troop, and rank which went on TV. If you would like to see the video link showing our troop please click here.

2009 Scout Camp at Duck Creek, Utah

On Monday, May 25th, 2009 through Friday, May 29th,we went to scout camp at Duck Creek, Utah. The boys who went were: Brad, Zac S., Keilor, Joel, Justin, Skylar, David, Nick, Ryan, Zack Y., Austin, Porter S., Ian E., Porter D., Brandon, Nicholas, Caleb, Ben, Spencer, Tyler, Jacob, Max, and Braden. The leaders who went were: Brother Bradshaw, Brother Papa, Brother Starr, Brother Erickson, Brother Plowman, Brother Traub, Brother Severtson, Brother Gale, Brother Barbier, Brother Woods, and Brother Shumway.

At 6:00 in the morning we left. The drive was supposed to be 8 hours, but there was a flat tire on the way there which made it 10 hours. When we finally got there we set up camp, ate dinner, and had our devotional.  We also had cake for dessert for Nicholas's birthday. Then we went to bed.

The next day we went bike riding on our mountain bikes. Many people fell off a few times and damaged their bikes. The bike ride was 15 miles and took up most of the day. Then we went to Zion National Park where we went on a hike. Then at the very end of the hike it started to rain. We also liked driving through a tunnel that was a mile long. That night for our devotional we had to retire an old flag by burning it.

The next day we worked on the orienteering merit badge and the cycling merit badge. We learned the different parts of a bike, how to use a compass with a map, and we set up an orienteering course. After that we went repelling down a 25-foot cliff. It was really fun and most people who did it wanted to do it again. When we got back we found out the teachers went around and messed up some people's tents. They ended up having to take down the tents for them. Then we had dinner and left to do our devotional. For our devotional that day we went and buried the ashes from the flag we burned. Then we went to bed.

The next day some of the kids woke up early to go fishing. Nobody caught anything though. Then all of the deacons went on the orienteering trail we made and had lots of fun doing that. We went canoeing after that which most of the kids went fishing again. Nobody caught anything still but some kids got close. Then we all ate dinner and played games that we learned like Scum, and Sensei, which we found out were both really fun. Then we went to bed.
The next day we all packed up our stuff and got new pocketknives as an award and we left. We all got home much faster than the way there.

To view all the pictures we took on the campout click here

Angel Basin Scout Hike 4/10-11/2009

On Friday, April 10, and Saturday, April 11, 2009, we went on a backpacking campout to Angel Basin. The boys that went were, Porter S., Ian E, Austin, Porter D., Ian P., Brandon G., Nicholas, Caleb, Brandon J., Ben, Spencer, and Tyler. The leaders who went were Brother Bradshaw, Brother Martinez, Brother Severtson, Mr. Prost, Brother Evans, and Brother Gale.

  We left to go at 9:00 and got there at about 12:00 then we hiked down. The hike was around 5 miles long and we had to cross the river more than 20 times. Most of us were already getting tired at the sign which was around 1/4 of the way. We went about 4 miles then stopped to see the indian ruins in the caves that were around 600 years old and it was cool.

Then we started hiking again and were getting really tired. Brother Bradshaw said we were almost there when there was still like a whole mile left.

Then we finally got there and we set up our tents and all cooked our own food and played around a little and went to bed. It started raining pretty hard and most people's stuff got wet even though we had the rainfly on.

The next day we were all sore but we had to start hiking out at 8:00. It was still raining hard and we had to put all our stuff up. We started hiking up and it was really cold and we got super tired but we all wanted to get home really bad so we only took one 2 minutes break and hiked the rest of the way. Porter S. and Caleb both ended up falling in the river and most people got their shoes pretty wet. But we still hiked pretty fast. We were thinking it would take us 6 hours but it took us a little less than 5 hours for all of us to finally get out. When we got out we all ate pretty much the rest of our food even though we could hardly move our hands because it was so cold. When we were finally warm again we were all happy and then we left soon after that.

[Click here to view all our pictures from the hike]

[Click here to view our hiking trail on google maps]

Spring Camporee 3/6-7/2009

On Friday March 6, and Saturday March 7 we went on a camporee just outside of Casa Grande. The boys that went were Porter S., Porter D., Ian P, Brandon, Nicholas, Ben, Spencer, Tyler, and Caleb. The leaders that went were Brother Bradshaw, Brother Weed, Brother Austill, President Derrick, Brother Severtson. When we first got there we set up our tents and our flags. then we had spaghetti and meatballs with frechbread for dinner. Later we started planning our skit. Then we went to the opening camporee ceremony and watched a lot of different skits and performed ours. Then we came back to our campsite and had s'mores and went to bed.

The next day we woke up and cooked omelets with plastic bags. We had to put it in boiling water for a few minutes. Then we went and did all of the contests. There were many different ones first we went to there was different papers with different stories and we had to tell how to help out the person that gets hurt in the story. Another on we had to start a fire and boil water with only one match. On one we had to look at 100 different scouting items and remember as many as we could.

Later on that day after we did all of the contests we had to start taking down our tents. We did that and all had sandwiches for lunch and cleaned up everything then left. We had to leave early so we never got to learn our scores.

Canyon Creek Campout (Near Forest Lakes AZ 1/30/09 - 1/31/09

On Friday, January 30, 2009 and Saturday January 31, 2009 we went on a campout to Canyon Creek. The boys that went were Brad, Porter S., Ian P., Brandon, Nicholas, Ben, Tyler, Spencer, and Jacob. The leaders that went were Brother Bradshaw, Brother Weed, Brother Severtson, Brother Plowman, Brother Steele, and Brother Bigelow. When we first got there we were freezing. We all set up our tents and ate dinner soon after we got there. We were supposed to bring up our own food but many kids forgot so the leaders brought lots of extras. We all got our dinner and we made a fire and we all sat around it for a while. Many of us forgot chairs too. Later on we are all starting to eat. Then Brad gets up and says he is leaving and will be back in a minute, and he sets his lasagna in his chair. Then Brandon wanted a chair but he didn't hear Brad say his lasagna was in his chair and goes and sits in his chair. Later Brad comes back and notices his lasagna is gone and tells Brandon to get out of his chair. Then Brandon stands up and there is squashed lasagna all over him and the chair. Later on after that we all went to bed.

The next day we all woke up and ate breakfast which was just oatmeal, fruit, and hot chocolate. We played around for a while. We made a small fire on the ice which took a long time but it was cool how it melted the ice underneath. Then we took down our tents and put out all of the fires.

After we got all ready we went over to the side of a very snowy mountain and went sledding and had lots of fun. We had four sleds and we took turns going down the mountain.

 There were lots of trees though and everybody ended up getting hurt at least once but it was still fun. We ended up using the shovels to make our own pathway. We still hit alot of trees but we still had fun. The sleds actually made us go down pretty fast. After that we all had sandwiches for lunch and left.

Click these links to see all the pictures and videos from the campout.