Upcoming activity

Here is what lies ahead for Troop 22:

November 5th (Saturday) - Scouting for food
November 11th (Friday) - Veterans Day Parade
November 19th (Saturday) - Rock Climbing at Sacramento Pipeworks

Halloween Party

This past Saturday we held our Halloween Party.  Pumpkins were carved, games were played, swimming was swimmed.  And a movie was watched (Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein).  Good time was had by all, from what I could tell.

Day hike this Saturday

We will have our day hike along the Pacific Crest Trail this Saturday.  We leave from the parking lot behind Carl's Jr. at the corner of I-80 and Antelope at 8:30 sharp.  Be there at 8:00am and bring plenty of water!

Swimming Rescue methods

Hey scouts!  If you need to have requirement 8c from the Second Class Trail signed off, we will be meeting at the Jolly's house on Friday at 7pm to help you get this accomplished.  If you need directions to the Jolly's, send me an email.

Community Service

Troop 22 had a busy day. We started out serving and busing tables at the annual POW-MIA luncheon at the VFW post in Antelope. We followed that up with a flag ceremony for Sac Co. Counselwoman Susan Peters at Pioneer Park. Thanks to all the help from the boys at both events. It was a long a busy day and your efforts are appreciated.

MIA-POW luncheon

The Troop will be serving lunch at the POW-MIA luncheon on Saturday. The luncheon will be from 11:30 to 1:30 and we would like you to be there by 11:15 to go over the process for serving. I know that you have all done this before, but we will need to figure out the best way to do our job depending on the table layout.  See you Saturday.

Quartely Court of Honor

Held our latest Court of Honor last night.  Lots of merit badges handed out and three advancements.  Good job to all the boys in the troop!  Keep it up.  We'll be planning for 2012 beginning with our next meeting, so bring some ideas of things you would like to do and places you would like to visit.

Next outing date moved

We needed to move the date of our next outing. It WAS on the 10th, NOW it's on the 24th. Update your calendars. More info at the Court of Honor.

Last meeting of the 'Summer'

The unofficial end of summer arrives with Labor Day.  So to celebrate we are contemplating having a movie night at our next meeting.  Thinking about showing Scout Camp.  Hope to see you Monday.

Dutch Oven donuts...

Yum!!!

End of a successful day

What a great day! Beautiful weather. Great dutch oven meals. Lots of fun playing in the creek. Tomorrow will bring our hike out and the close of another outing.

Dutch oven lunch at Gibson Ranch

We made it to Gibson. Took longer than I hoped it would to get here, but we made it. Good lunch from the boys. Dutch ovens in use. Oh yeah!

Camping at Gibson Ranch this weekend

We'll be leaving on our backpack style outing to Gibson Ranch this Saturday.  We'll hit the trail around 8:00 and hike to Gibson.  We're going to play with nature and cook some great meals.  And the moon should be about right for a rousing round of capture the flag at night.  Gonna be fun!

Correction to price of August outing

I listed the wrong price on the permission form for the August outing.  It should be $11.00.  Sorry for the confusion.

Might as well begin with our next outing

I have not been successful in reconfirming our first choice of camping spots for the August outing, so we will be changing to a backup location.  Reservations have been made for Gibson Ranch on the same weekend.  We will be camping for only Saturday evening this outing and we will also be hiking into Gibson Ranch.  In the past we have done this from the VFW hall, but we are going to lengthen the hike a little bit this time.  We will start from Dry Creek Ranch (basically).  There is a new bike trail parking lot just to the south side of the Ranch (toward Elkhorn Blvd.).  We will gather there on Saturday morning, hike to Gibson, set up camp, do our thing and hike back Sunday.

Because of this, we won't need a bunch of vehicles to drive us to and from Gibson Ranch.  We will however need one or two vehicles to transport the large troop gear that we can't carry ourselves.  Items like the patrol boxes and storage coolers.  We will need this help on both Saturday to get the gear to Gibson and then again on Sunday to get it back to Mr. David's house.  I also will need one vehicle to remain at Gibson while we are on site in case we need to transport anyone for medical assistance.  If this is one of the gear vehicles, that would probably be easiest.

I'm baaack...

At least that's the plan.  I will be updating this blog like I used to in the beginning.  Look here to keep up to date of upcoming happenings with the troop.  The useful dates area will be updated soon as well.