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Camping & High Adventure |
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A BACKGROUND OF HIGH ADVENTURE IN TROOP 109 |
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As any scout who has spent time with the Troop can attest, the “outing” has always been a big part of “scouting” in Troop 109. In addition to the local monthly camping trips and annual week at summer camp, Troop 109 has long had and continues to have a strong high adventure program, where boys are presented the opportunity to trek on a national and worldwide scale. Scouts from Troop 109 have journeyed to numerous National Scout Jamborees held in Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia and several International Jamborees in locations such as Greece, Japan, Canada, & the United Kingdom. In July of 1987 the entire Troop traveled to France, touring Paris and camping for two weeks in the rural western part of that country with a group of French Scouts and their families. In the 1970s, 80s & 90s, many Troop 109 scouts participated in various Mohegan Council led contingents to Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimmaron, New Mexico. The trip included a 30-day cross-country tour of 20 states and a Canadian province, along with a minimum 50-mile backpacking trek through the Sangre de Cristo Rocky Mountains at Philmont. In 2002, when council was no longer conducting this trip, Troop 109 proudly led its own 30 day Philmont contingent, complete with the cross-country tour and a compliment of over 40 scouts and leaders from central Massachusetts. In 2004 the troop also led a 14-day expedition of 24 scouts and leaders to the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base in the Florida Keys. The trip included a tour of the Southern Florida Everglades and the Keys, culminating at Sea Base with the primitive “Out Island” camping adventure, regarded as the B.S.A’s pinnacle of ocean based high adventure programs. |
