Sequassen 2008
| First Day Arrival | |||
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| Waterfront Rules | |||
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| Back to camp then Opening Flags | |||
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The Banker |
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| Sunday Dinner | |||
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| Campfire | |||
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| After Campfire, the rain begins.... | |||
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| Polar Bear Time | |||
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| Monday Morning Flags | |||
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| Monday breakfast | |||
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| Archery Badge class for Connor, Nick and Anthony. Connor Smith in charge. | |||
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| Rifle Shooting class for Jonathan, John, Connor and Nick | |||
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Cooking badge for Connor, Nick and Anthony | ||
| Monday morning before lunch | |||
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| Monday Lunch | |||
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| Monday Mid-Day Misc... | |||
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| Free Shoot on the Archery Range | |||
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John and Mike's targets | ||
| Back in camp before Monday Dinner | |||
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| At Monday Dinner....Happy Birthday Mr. Paine! | |||
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| Tuesday Morning Polar Bears (not looking quite so chipper today!) | |||
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| Tuesday after breakfast - It's OA day! | |||
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| Merit Badge Classes | |||
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| The leaders take on a service project. Cutting stumps to ground level by hand. | |||
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Dave Supervises |
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Mike provides expert guidance... |
But if you want it done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself |
| Rifle Shooting for John, Jonathan, Connor and Nick | |||
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| Swimming merit badge for Jonathan, Bradley and Robert | |||
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Almost as good a show as the dolphin's Sea World |  |
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| Sailing merit badge for Ben and Justin | |||
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| Tuesday before lunch | |||
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| Tuesday Lunch | |||
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| Tuesday Afternoon | |||
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| Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Gilbert take on the climbing tower. | |||
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| Fire building with wet wood? | |||
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| Wednesday morning Polar Bears | |||
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| More Rain!!! | |||
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| Wednesday waiting for lunch - look at all the pretty colors! | |||
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| Wednesday Archery for Nick, Anthony and Connor | |||
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| Followed by Rifle Shooting for Jonathan, Nick and Connor | |||
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Mike Morgenstern after building his shelter (just burn the clothes now) | |
| After lunch, the All Faith Service then back to camp | |||
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Fun with newts (unless you happen to be a newt of course) | |
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| Wednesday Firehose competition - three teams for our Troop gave it their best. | |||
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Dressed for the elements |
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| Thursday Morning And still more rain! (No Polar bear today). | |||
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| More Archery for Nick, Connor and Anthony | |||
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| Connor returns for free shoot practice and one-on-one with Will. | |||
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| Frontier cooking (with wet wood? - NOT) and Shotgun for Joe | |||
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| Connor returned for a special 7 pm free shoot and got his archery points (scored by Connor Smith) to complete his merit badge | |||
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Troop photo - Taken at the same time as the official camp one. | ||
| Getting ready for our friendship campfire with Troop 15 | |||
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Christina |
| Friday Morning - our towels huddled up to the camp fire to dry out last night - finally a dry day! Off to Polar Bear one last time. Mike Morgenstern rolls back in at 5:30 am - just in time for Polar Bear ("But Mr. Cassidy said I could sleep in!)" | |||
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| Merit badge classes | Mike and his shelter | ||
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| Back at camp then to the Waterfront barbeque with Troop 15 | |||
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| Scouts get airborne | |||
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Matt tried to launch Mitch but the laws of physics said otherwise (he bounced off leaving Mitch on the pad) | |
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| John Paine - Undefeated Jousting Phenom. | |||
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| The Land and Sea Games. We didn't fair so well at sea but ruled the land. Overall 3rd place! | |||
| In and out of the canoe - for 3rd place | |||
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| John dredged up trays with an assist from Nick | |||
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The athletes awaiting their events. | ||
| Matt and Mike battled across the trampoline bridge but spent a lot of time in the water. | |||
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| Jonathan and Tim moving golf balls with their toes | |||
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Looks more like a ski jumper | |
| Ben, Mike and George in the row boat and kayak event. (Strategic error - Mike got his rowing merit badge but Ben took the oars) | |||
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| The race to build the sandwich. Everyone gave it their best but there wasn't much left at the finish line. But Joe didn't let it go to waste. | |||
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| The buttered melon challenge. Unfortunately it was so well hidden only seconds remained to gain control once it was found | |||
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Too much excitement + too much sugar = crash. Anthony noted that a well placed towel can make even the hardest rock suitable for 40 winks. | ||
| Now to the land games | |||
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Can I sign up to be Scoutmaster for a day? |  |
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| Jason and Anthony - Birdie on a perch | |||
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| Mike Staffa, John Paine, Mitch, Joe and with Jason as anchor no other team stood a chance at tug-of-war - 1st Place! | |||
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Dizzy Bat
3rd Place |
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Ben... the course is the other way! |  |
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| Matt and Tim took 3rd Place in the Shoe Kick. | |||
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| George, Eli, Jason and Morgan in the relay race. Morgan poured it on in the last lap securing 3rd place missing second by a nose. | |||
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| Post games debriefing | |||
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| Saturday morning pack-up (no it wasn't raining - just leftover spots on the lens.) | |||
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All cleaned out |  |
Well, almost all... |
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Pack up then off to brunch | ||
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| Awards Presentation | |||
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| Mr. Savino for the Mile Swim | Mr. Johnson for Climb on Safely training | ||
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| Honor Patrol |  |
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The return of the Spirit Stick |
| SUPER TROOP
3 Years Straight A DYNASTY |
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| Final closing ceremonies in camp. | |||
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