Scouting Weekend, March 26-28

Scouting Weekend, March 26-28

More than a dozen Scouts from Troop Forty, plus a Webelo from Pack Forty, and six adult Scouters spent the weekend at Seton Scout Reservation in Greenwich, Conn.

After almost a week of real spring weather, it turned cold--well below freezing on Friday nite and around freezing on Saturday nite. Some photos will give you the daytime feeling. But we were grateful that it was dry.

Besides cooking and cleaning (in a relative sense of the term!), gathering firewood and hanging by the fires, the Scouts also did a hike. A few did some merit badge work. We celebrated the Palm Sunday liturgy, also with Troop 1 from Crestwood, but no one took pictures of that.

The lads cooking bacon, sausage, and eggs for breakfast on Saturday.

They know how to eat breakfast!

For lunch, burgers and dogs over the coals. Burgers went fast.

Some of the Scouts by one of the fires after lunch.

Assistant Scoutmaster Bill Schaffer with other Scouts by the other fire.

After Mass, Scouts Chris Brock and Sean Price get started on supper, including (leftover) ziti and garden salad.

While the boys were roughing it in lean-tos, most of the adults were cozy in this cabin: Asst. Scoutmaster Bill Schaffer, Scoutmaster Tunji Renner, Asst. Scoutmaster Anthony Jenkins. That's my lower bunk next to Bill, and my pack behind him.