Non-Standard Camping Trips

 Supplemental Materials for Geocaching Merit Badge ◦ Cache In Trash Out (CITO) events  These events focus on Scouts working with community groups to clean-up geocaching, orienteering, and map and compass courses.  No plans for BCC to do any, but events available at geocaching.com/CITO  Six or seven scheduled for PA and NJ.

 Cache to Eagle ◦ Highlights Eagle Projects at Caching Sites ◦ There’s a stupid patch ◦ Contact 100 th Anniversary Staff Adviser (no idea who) or to ◦ Run by geoscouting.com

 Other Geocaching News ◦ Groundspeak’s Geocaching iPhone Application ◦ Geocaching Merit Badge Requirements Released (4/9/2010)  Available through scouting.org or usscouts.org  Interested Councilor’s Need to Submit an Application to Become Instructor ◦ More information in next issue of Scouting

 Generations Connection Project ◦ Boy Scouts of America Centennial Trees  $20 per 2’-4’ tree  One will be planted in Flathead National Forest ◦ Scouting Ancestry  Family Tree Tool provided free  Featured stories available online

 Lots of Stuff in Nation’s Capital ◦ If you count just museums there are 70. About 10 that kids find interesting.  National Museum of Crime & Punishment  National Museum of the American Indian  National Air and Space Museum  National Museum of Natural History  Newseum  USS Barry

 Stay Nearby – Camp William B Snyder ◦ 4 hours from Bucks County, 1 hour from capital ◦ Camping Options  34 person cabin = $400 a weekend  36 person campsite = $100 a weekend  COPE course = $40.00 a person

 Open to Scout groups of all types  Costs $50.95 per person and $11 for parking  7-to-1 maximum youth to adult ratio  Includes ride in a flight simulator  Badge Work 1 per Scout (some prereqs required) ◦ American Heritage ◦ Emergency Preparedness ◦ First Aid ◦ Radio

 Very Lengthy List of Restrictions and Rules, read ahead of time  Only an overnight activity not a whole weekend  Tours without camping available for less than $20 per person.

 Only open to overnight camping for Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts  Provide firepits, cold water, electricity, pavilion, camping space  Check with Council first to check license and verify insurance.  Open May to October

 Sunset Parades  Fishing (check Cape May Area Charter Fishing Boat Directory)  Cape May Bird Observatory  The Atlantus Concrete Ship

 Hershey Park offers reasonably priced camping grounds  Access to Park  ZooAmerica ◦ Boy Scout Day ◦ Falconry Experience  Dutch Wonderland  Cheaper in the Spring (March/April)

 Includes ◦ Overnight 2 nights camping ◦ Admission to main park ◦ Admission to ZooAmerica ◦ Falconry Experience ◦ Patch ◦ Cost $50 to $90 depending on package, about $35 cheaper than everything separately. ◦ May 21 st -23rd this year

 Periodic program events ◦ Merit Badge Midway ◦ Mini-Jamboree Held This Past January ◦ Baltimore Scoutreach events