Campout at Camp Wilkerson

We had a fun campout at Camp Wilkerson! We placed flags at the Military Park for a service project, we did an orienteering course, and we had some fun leadership training and activities. Here is a link to all my photos from the campout. http://s1098.photobucket.com/albums/g364/AaronRByrd/May%202012%20Campout/ Ryan plants a flag.

Nathan plants a flag while Nic discovers the benefits of Venture Scouting...

We finished up the last few markers.

Afterwards we did an orienteering course. The Varsity team put it together as part of the orienteering merit badge and the scouts did it as part of their rank advancements. The boys had to both figure out the course from the map and directions as well as figure out the orienteering symbols as part of a quiz. Bro. Caudle won the race with Trevor taking home the gold for the boys. Angelo studies his map.

Jared studies the marker symbols to figure out what it means.

Bobby takes a bearing.

Jon finishes up and figures out the last clue.

Checking over the answers at the end.

Later on we did some leadership training. As part of the training the boys had some activities. The most challenging one was to simply put a stick on the ground. They hold it up with the stick resting on their fingers and, with no on letting go, try to set it on the ground. It is a lot harder than it sounds.