We’re sorry we missed last year! As an apology, we’re offering new items, and DEEP discounts – but only through this pre-sale. Pre-orders are live until July 30th. Shop Now! https://2025-christmas-tree-presale.square.site/s/shop

We’re offering the trees for sale at the 2023 prices – but we can’t do that for the whole time for all of the trees – It’s not just our troop relying on this this year, 1577 is joining us in this fundraising endeavor.

Some of the size classes are simply not going to be available on the lot: 12 foot and up are not being ordered on spec this year, so if that’s the size you want, you’ll need to order it. The decorative items will likely not be on the lot either.

9-12 foot tall trees are priced for this presale at the same price we were selling them at two years ago. Those prices will be going up when they are on the lot.

And the rest of the trees have a 5% discount attached to them for the presale as well. Email us at XmasTreeSale@basTroop157.com with any questions!

This month, the scouts cleaned up Bready Park as well as went camping at Burke Lake Park. The closer destination was nice after battling the traffic to Richmond. Fishing was also a focus for this month, but unfortunately the hot weather made it difficult to catch much. We’ve been told many times that they call it “fishing”, not “catching” for a reason.

We unfortunately chose one of the hottest weeks to attend summer camp. It had temps of over 100 with a “feels like” of 117 at its hottest. Nevertheless, our scouts had fun and made the best of it! After a long, sweaty week of advancement and merit badges, we were all happy to go home to our own beds with AC, showers without shower shoes and no wolf spiders!!

Congratulations to Caleb, Troop 157’s newest eagle scout!

We’ve been busy keeping up with Bready Park, working on rank advancement, the auto mechanics merit badge and also some physical fitness/swim testing and just hanging out. Looking forward to summer camp in a couple weeks!!

The Honor Flight Network is a special program in the DC area that aims to thank veterans for their service, sacrifice, and selflessness. They fly veterans in from all over the United States to spend a day or two in DC, taking them to all the war memorials, see the changing of the guard, etc. It’s a special day to thank and honor them. Part of this involves a warm welcoming and departure at the airport. Troop 157 saw the Dubuque, Iowa veterans off on their flight.

For our May campout, we set out on the Shenandoah River for whitewater rafting. Gorgeous weather and scenery and a great time was had by all!

Since March was pretty busy for a bunch of our scouts, we decided to do a bowling outing instead of our normal camping trip. The troop had a lot of fun bowling and hanging out!

Caleb built a gaga ball pit at his school for his eagle project. It turned out well and the scouts had an opportunity to learn how to use some new tools! Thank you to all who came out to help… many hands made light work!