Winter Cabin Camping

Camp Spencer, Broad Creek Scout Reservation, MD

22 - 24 March 2008

A great winter campout, this one was filled with all sorts of activities.  We worked on merit badges (radio, personal management, communications, astronomy), advancement requirements, went on an orienteering hike, played games (Quirkle, 10,000 pyramid, cards, etc), had a star party (identified stars, planets, and constellations for the astronomy merit badge and saw the heavens through a telescope), listened to short wave radio while working on the radio merit badge (stations from China, Japan, England, Cuba, France, Germany, Canada, USA, Australia, and who knows how many others), listened to a spooky radio play from 1947, and, in true 1018 fashioned, ate like kings!  It was another great cabin campout for the troop!

The Viking Patrol makes breakfast . . .                                                                . . . eggs!

Playing games and planning the orienteering route.                                            The first waypoint.

We "discover" waypoint 25                                                               All that's left of Manor House -- where we stayed during many winter cabin campouts

Hiking

                                                                                                                       Mr White adjusts the telescope

Enjoying life at the cabin.                                                                                    Popcorn!

Hanging out . . .                                                                                              . . . Quinn tunes in the world on the shortwave radio

The adults make breakfast                                                                                     Relaxing on Sunday morning.

This year's cabin -- the Admin Building at Camp Spencer