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2008-09 Future Outings:
September 2008
 Oktoberfest, Fishing
October 2008
  Trail of History
November 2008
  Gourmet Cooking
December 2008
  First Aid Meet
January 2009
  Sledding
February 2009
  Ski Trip
March 2009
  Climbing
April 2009
  Spring Camp o Ree
May 2009
  Railroad Outing
June 2009
  Shooting,
  Summer Camp

 

Curtis S. Read Scout Reservation, Brant Lake, New York

July 2006

Troop 69 attended Camp Waubeeka, part of the Curtis S. Read Scout Reservation in Brant Lake, New York, as our summer camp destination in 2006. The reservation was on 1,200 acres bordering the Pharoah Wilderness Area in the southern Adirondack Mountains of update New York. The camp offered a wide variety of merit badges, had a Tenderfoot to First Class advancement program, and had challenging alternate activities (rock climbing, caving, COPE, etc.) available for older Scouts. The camp was located on Lake Waubeeka and had a full aquataics program. We traveled by car, stayed in platform tents (provided by Camp Waubeeka), and cooked our meals using food supplied by the camp.

Our travel itinery included the following stops en route:

 

2006 Troop 69 Summer Camp By Chris Behrendt

On Thursday, July 13, boys left to go to camp Wabeeka in the Adirondack National forest of northern New York State. On the three-day journey crossing over 1000 miles, we stopped at Cedar point in Erie, Ohio, Niagara Falls to ride “The Maid of the Mist,” and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. We also Celebrated Zach and Spencer Mutch’s birthday while having lunch right next to Niagara Falls.

Cedar Point Amusement Park, Erie, OH

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Maid of the Mist, Niagara Falls, NY
Cooperstown, Baseball Hall of Fame
Ft. Ticonderoga, NY
At Camp, we spent 5 days earning Merit Badges as well as take place in fun camp activities. These activities were: Zip-line, caving, Staff Hunt, Fire building contest, and a water carnival at the end on the week. At the fire-building contest, we were to go last. After a great war of six other troops trying to beat the first troop’s time of 5 minutes 47 seconds. We were finally up. Are troop wasn’t the best organized. We took over 16 minutes without adding the giant match penalty. (You got one free match. After that, each match count’s as another five seconds added to your time). We still managed to get fourth over all after a few teams quit after about ten minutes. In the end, we still were an extremely happy bunch as everyone walked out of the scout craft area chanting, “We’re not last!!! We’re not last!!!”
While at Camp Wabeeka, we met some great people, but one person has created a memory that will stick with the troop forever. Tom Baptiste, better referred to by our troop as “mutten-chops” because of his extremely long sideburns, was the teacher for Environmental Science and Camping merit badge. At the beginning of camp, we hated him for being strict and for liking Classical Music. He had it blasting mostly every single day he was there teaching. Mid-week at the staff hunt, we captured him and only one other staff member and got to throw him in the lake! By the end of the week, we changed our minds about him and though he was the greatest person in camp. We even had a special tribute to him at the closing campfire by giving him the “Troop 69 first annual award of awesomeness” (a sprite bottle covered in duct tape covered in at least a dozen shotgun shells. The bottle had a glow stick in it because we wanted everyone at the campfire to see the award.), sang a song Steve wrote about him, and read “ten reasons why Tom Baptiste rules.”
The Water Carnival was basically different contests at the waterfront. This took place the last full day of camp. Some of the many activities were: belly flop contest, biggest splash contest, smallest splash contest, and of course, the cardboard boat race. Our Troop had two boats, both made out of cardboard, rope, duct tape, and an inch or thinner sticks. Steve and Al made one boat, and Zach, Spencer, Adam, and myself made the other. My team began out boat, “The Mutch Mobile,” on Wednesday, and Steve and Al began their boat only two hours before the race. About 8 boats showed up for the race. (Six from Wabeeka, and two from the neighboring camp Buckskin.) Most of the boats, including my boat with Adam and Zach on board, sank right away. Only three boats made it to the end, which were the two from Buckskin, and Steve and Al’s. The unofficial results were that Steve and Al got second. The boat that got first, however, had turtle wax on it so unofficially Steve and Al, with the boat they made in only two hours won the race.
 
Sadly, the fun ended on Saturday when we packed up and left camp Wabeeka. We had great fun at this camp and hopefully one day we will return. It only took us two days to get back home to Palatine. We didn’t make any special stops. All I hope is that the Scouts, as well as Parents won’t remember it as a week of torture from being eaten by bugs. I hope that every scout will someday think back at camp Wabeeka and smile.
       

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