We’re back! Help us keep the tradition going!

We’ll admit, last year’s sale didn’t quite go as planned. Perhaps we were a little too optimistic because we ordered more than we could sell. While a few of the leftover trees eventually found a second life as shelters for birds and fuel for our campfires, the sale itself wasn’t what we had hoped for. In fact, we weren’t sure we could keep the tradition going.

And then we remembered that the Scout Law reminds us to be trustworthy, helpful, cheerful, and thrifty.

We’ve learned from last year’s experience, ordered a more manageable number of trees, and in partnership with Troop 1577, we’re cheerfully giving our Christmas Tree Sale another try.

Here’s where you come in! We’d love for you to make us part of your holiday tradition. Stop by, pick out a beautiful fraser fir, and let us prepare it for transportation home. Every tree purchased helps support our troop’s activities, summer camp adventures, community service projects, and opportunities for our Scouts to learn, grow, and lead.

Your support means more than you might realize. It helps us keep this tradition alive and gives us the chance to experience the rewards of hard work, teamwork, and serving our community.

So let’s make this year’s sale a success! Come find your perfect tree, spread a little holiday cheer, and help us make sure our Christmas trees spend December in your living room!

Whether we’re exploring the outdoors, serving our community, learning new skills, or just having a little fun, we’re always making memories along the way!

Big adventures, new skills, and growing friendships — here’s a peek at what Troop 157 has been up to!

• Keeping the Town of Herndon’s Bready Park beautiful with our monthly park cleanups
• Building new skills and working toward our Citizen in the Community, Cooking, First Aid, and Orienteering merit badges
• Flipping pancakes at Trinity Presbyterian Church for their Shrove Tuesday supper
• Growing our community roots by selling native plants alongside Troop 1577 to raise funds
• Paddling our way down the beautiful Shenandoah River on a kayaking adventure
• Lending a helping hand on Anton’s and Linus’ Eagle Scout projects
• Getting a little sticky while discovering how tree sap becomes delicious maple syrup
• Celebrating hard work, new skills, and big achievements at our Court of Honor
• Making memories, learning new skills, and enjoying the outdoors at summer camp at Goshen
• Showing our appreciation for our nation’s heroes by welcoming an honor flight at Dulles Airport
• Teaming up to (almost) build a monkey bridge and put our Scout skills to the test
• Cooling off and having a blast swimming at Guppy Gulch!

Our big fundraiser is here!! Along with Troop 1577, we set up the tree stand the weekend prior to Thanksgiving. Trees were delivered the day before Thanksgiving and we had our soft opening that Friday. Scouts and parents have been working hard, enduring the cold and selling trees. Come on out to Holy Cross Lutheran Church to get yours! We have great prices compared to the other tree lots in the area!

We had lots of rank advancements and merit badges awarded at last night’s court of honor. Most scouts advanced one rank, and some even advanced three! Lots of merit badges and three new eagle scouts as well.

Troop 157 embarked on a History of Scouting Trail (HOST Hike), which is a multi-hike series that honors the founders of Scouting America while taking hikers through Scouting-related landmarks and sites in Washington, DC. The James E. West hike is a 5.4-mile hike that took us from the small park near the south side of the Air & Space Museum to the National Museum of the American Indian. It was a cold, blustery day, but our scouts had a blast!

You have left Northern Virginia enroute to a vacation in Hawaii. While in the air there is an awful storm, and you are blown off course. Lost with damaged instruments, your pilot sees an island below and must make an emergency landing. At first it seems like a tropical paradise. You can survive anywhere. You’re a Scout, and you’re prepared. You have no worries. You have brought all you need with you…and then you see pterodactyls fly over and you realize you have landed on an island inhabited by dinosaurs….

• How will you survive?
• Will the dinosaurs be friendly?
• What trials and tribulations will you have to go through to make it off the island?
• Will you fill your passport and make it to your destination?

This month, we went to the district’s Jurassic Adventure Camporee at Camp Highroad in Middleburg, VA! Our troop participated in a variety of patrol-based competitions, working on lashings, fire building, navigation, first aid, archery and more.

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!!