Pioneering Camp Out
Pioneering Camp Out We planned this particular camp out for quite a while. It began with a
discussion at one of our PLC meetings regarding how to get the troop more interested in
learning about knots and lashings. At that meeting one of the scouts suggested that the
troop could design and build catapults, then use them to hurl water balloons at each
other. The rest of the members of PLC liked the idea, and the planning began. The first
order of business was to acquire a supply of poles and timbers to use. We accomplished
this through a service project we performed for the Heard Museum, clearing land via
cutting cedar trees. We got to keep the trees. The site for our camp out was provided by a
new friend of Troop 57 (thanks Henry!). It was hot, but the ample shade and available
water in our camp site made the heat much easier to endure.
Adults 
and scouts
gathered at the troop room, loaded the trailer, and departed for the
camp site. We set up camp 
and turned in for the night. 
Saturday morning, we discovered that we had left an important piece of equipment
behind, the American Flag! So being the resourceful scouts that we are, we improvised by
using the small flag on S.P.L.'s class A uniform.
After having breakfast
we gleefully completed our K.P. duties 
and then entertained some visitors 
before
getting serious 
about constructing our catapults.
(Some of us 
were somewhat clueless)
While others chose mobility 
over sheer fire-power. 
The designs ranged from traditional 
to complex 
but in the end it was the trebuchet 
built by the Blue Beavers that wound up being the best
performing weapon of destruction, follwed closely by the traditional design 
built by the Ravens.
Besides building catapults the scouts were enthralled by a nature lesson
taught courtesy of a HUGE spider.
All in all, it was a great camp out 
and the troop would like to again thank our host.
(Photography by 
Troop 57 Historian)
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