What’s been going on since February?
What have wee been doing since February? A lot. Campouts with horseback riding, fishing, skeet shooting, it’s been a blast!
March.
The troop drove to the Northern Virginia Lions Youth Camp in Boyce, and used that as their base for the weekend. Saturday they went out for a trail ride at Royal Horseshoe Farm in Front Royal. Rave reviews of this campout, despite the fact that it was REALLY cold Saturday night. The scouts enjoyed the trail ride, and the horses enjoyed the apples afterward.
April.
We finally got back to having our annual Skeet shoot and campout at the Izaak Walton League in Chantilly. All of the scouts and leadership on the roster come out of the woodwork for this campout, it’s so much fun. After the skeet shoot, wood chopping and splitting was the subject of the afternoon, and apparently it managed to tire out EVERYONE!
May.
The troop wandered down to Burke Lake for some oRAINteering and Fishing on the Occoquan.
June.
The campout will be on Father’s Day weekend, they’ll be kayaking on the Shenandoah.
Wimp-O-Ree 2023
Our annual winter cabin trip to Camp Snyder to do intensive merit badge work was this past weekend. The scouts worked on merit badges like Citizenship in the Community, Cooking, Emergency Preparedness, Personal Management, and Automotive Maintenance. During Wimp-O-Ree, the adults handle the cooking, so that the scouts can focus on advancing their merit badges.
Saturday evening the troop started their annual planning for the coming year. We encourage the the scouts to conduct their annual planning meeting during Wimp-O-Ree, because this is one of the better attended trips throughout the year. The evening was finished off with board games for those who didn’t conk out early. We even left Carroll’s Cottage the next morning cleaner than we found it!
Camping Trip at Lake Fairfax!
Our troop goes out camping again like they used to pre-pandemic
In person troop meetings
Recently our troop has been talking about having in person troop meetings. We have already had our patrol meetings, tree sales, and Bready park in person, but we still have our weekly meetings online. If we were to have them in person they would have to start earlier and be in an outdoor park. Lucky the weather is getting warmer! What do you think about in person meetings? Leave your comments below.
Webmaster update!
Hello everyone, my name is Wyatt Anderson I’m currently the new webmaster of troop 157. I am very excited to start posting on here more often to help grow our troop and revive our troop website! If you have any ideas on topics; feel free to leave a comment or contact the troop!
Welcome
I’m pleased to announce that Troop 157 has a new homepage on the internet. It’s rather bare-bones now, but we’ll be expanding out our presence soon, so please check back often!