Summer Camp 2012 Camp Fiesta Island San Diego
Summer Camp 2012 Camp Fiesta Island San Diego Good Evening, I tried to wait a couple of weeks after the holidays before I sent this email. It’s time to start planning for summer camp. We have reservations at Camp Fiesta Island in San Diego for the week of July 22-28, 2012. The camp is on [...]
The Weekends Campout
We will be leaving this Friday at 5:00PM, we are staying at Hole in the wall campground in the Mohave National Preserve 2 hours East of Barstow. Returning MMonday afternoon. We’ll be doing the following: Sandunes, sliding/ hiking, Petroglyphs from the campground/ hike. Kelso railroad museum? Trilobyte fields south of 40 N of Amboy, and [...]
Troop Update January 2012
First off, Happy New Year! There is no meeting tonight! The Ski trip committeee has not been able to aquire boarding for the trip and there is little to no snow on June Mountain. Our alternative trip is to the Kelso Sandunes, Mitchel Caverns, and the Trilobite fields located East of Barstow just North of [...]
Added Troop 848 Eagle Scout Honor Roll
Just added a new page to the web site featuring Troop 848 Eagle Scout Honor Roll. This list all of the Troops Eagle Scouts from 1969. Currently Troop 848 has 87 Eagle Scouts.
Call for Troop Photos
If you have any photos from Troop Outings we are in the process of adding as many photos as we can to the Troops web site. If you are still in contact with former members of the Troop ask them for any photos they may have from the outings they went on while in the [...]
Snow Sports Activity – Jan 13-15 2012
The next Troop activity is the Snow Sports Weekend (Activity swapped with the Feb activity) When: Jan 13-16. Where: June Mt. Ski Resort Costs: First time beginner packet: Rental, lift ticket and 2 hour lesson (Ages 4-12) $85.00 (Ages 13 and up ) $95 Rental Only: Adult $34.00 plus helmet $10.00 Child $20.00 plus helmet [...]
No meetings on the following Nights
The next two meetings are Christmas Dec 26th and New Years Jan 2nd holidays, so all enjoy and have a very Safe Holiday. (We will not be meeting) What to do during this long break with nothing to do….work on those merit badges, get that book out and work on items for the next rank! [...]
Troop 848 Christmas Party
Tonight is the troop s christmas party Christmas party, there is a White Elephant gift exchange with a $10 limit on the gift which needs to be scouting related. It should also be something that the scout would want for himself. We will give out numbers at the door as the gifts are brought in.
Troop 848 December Update
The Eureka Dunes campout was a success with only a few cold fingers. It seems that the scouts liked the rough hikes that we did with out any trails etc. There are lots of places like this real close to home, so we can do that in February for the desert campout. Next Monday is [...]
TROOP 848 RIDGECREST, CA
Troop 848 Update Oct 4th, 2011 Good Evening Scouts and Families, **************************************************************** Activity Support **************************************************************** It has been a little over a month since I step down as Scoutmaster and took over as committee chairman of the Troop. Part of my responsibility is to work at getting our new scoutmaster Richard Thayer the support he [...]
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