Scout-O-Rama April 17-19, 2009

Article submitted by Zach Bailey

Way to go Troop 201!! We won 1st place in every category this year: Best Gateway, Best Campsite, and Best Troop overall! Thanks for all your help setting up our gateway, cleaning the campsite, and just being great scouts. Congratulations!

The campout was the Scout-O-Rama at the Coeur d'Alene fairgrounds. Our troop activities were: CPR, how to protect yourself against downed power lines, different ways to transport an injured victim, and a memory game.

When everyone arrived at the fairgrounds, we started setting up. The younger scouts learned how to set up a tent. About half way into setting up, it started raining, so everyone took a brief moment to get their ponchos/coats on. It took a long to get set up since we had to set up all 3 parts of the dining fly.

After all that, everyone could eat. There was a large variety of food too. Not just Subway. When we were done with that, we put on our class A's and went to an OA ceremony. Two people in our troop were chosen to be in the OA or Order of the Arrow. Those two people were: Gabe Single-Schwall and Josh Whitt.

Everyone went to bed tired and woke up refreshed. Each patrol was required to have a camp gadget. Unfortunately, everyone made cooking rack. All the patrols ended up using them for something different. The only patrol that didn't do the same thing was the Chiefs patrol, who built our entrance.

Everyone got ready for their stations, the Chiefs for the CPR, the Sharks for the memory game, the Wolverines for the different ways to transport an injured victim, and the Bigfoots for protecting yourself from downed power lines.

After all the shifts were over, everyone got together to take a troop picture under the entrance. After that we played football or just hung around our tents.

There was Capture the Flag, which was in the stands. When that ended, our whole troop played Kick the Can. A little bit into the game, some people from troop 911 came to play with us too. When Kick the Can was over, we all went back to the campfire and told jokes. It changed to Chuck Norris jokes after a little bit.

We all went to bed with the idea that we were going to pack up quickly and get back to the scout shack. Everyone woke up and packed up with haste. When everything was done and loaded up in to the trailers, we went and picked up garbage from the stands. Before everyone could leave, Justin locked Mr. Cleman's keys in his car. So Nathan and Michael went to Nathans house to get the spare key. We got back to the scout shack after that, and put everything back into the quartermaster's room.

Overall, the campout was very fun. We all had a good time playing Capture the Flag and Kick the Can. There was great food and great activities.

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