Thank you everyone! Our Winter Camp was a success!!

The kids were mostly interested in taking the GT Snow Racers down the old ski hill so we let them loose on that as much as possible. When they weren't sledding they were mostly happy to just play in the snow. We had to drag most of them inside to warm up. We did take the younger ones out for a hike, and did a little track and plant identifying along the way. The trail that's usually frequented by snowmobiles wasn't, so we didn't go to far with the little legs. The Scouts took a pretty long hike, made Quinzees and worked on their fire skills, while we pulled out the old rescue sled and snow shoes and had some relay races with the younger ones. We also spent some time inside doing some leather craft, making new woggles for their neckars, (Neckars are the bandanas they wear around their necks, for the unitiated) and reviewing the Cub Scouts First Aid Kits and PSKs, which the Beaver Scouts found very interesting.

We had a campfire on Saturday night too. The Scouts enjoyed it, the Beaver Scouts were too pooped to stay up very long, and the Cub Scouts learned an important lesson about listening to your leaders and wearing your snowpants even if you have your campfire blanket.

Sorry Hikermor, the other leaders vetoed letting run barefoot through the snow.