Christmas Tree Sales!!!

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!

Fishing at Occoquan

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.

Summer Camp at T. Brady Saunders!

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!!

Early Summer Happenings

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!!

Honor Flight

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.

Horseback Riding

During our April camp out, we went horseback riding again! So now that I’m back and had a safe trail ride, I’ll admit that last time my horse got too close to the horse in front of it, that horse then donkey kicked mine in the face and then my horse got mad, got on it’s rear legs and tried to clomp down on the other horse. It was super exciting, but admittedly a bit scary. Although this ride was less exciting, I was also glad that it was less exciting.

This was one of the worst setups that we have had in a long time. It was pouring down rain when we arrived at camp… trying to set up tents with new scouts, in the rain, in the dark led to a trifecta of miserableness. We were all soaked, but honestly, this helps us appreciate the good weather! Funny thing is that it pretty much stopped raining after we set up camp 😀 Check out our sweet campsite pretty much right on the river! The scouts had a chance to fish and just hang out… it was great!