Month: July 2014

– By Walter Sterling The OA Summit Experience was incredible. The 4 days of labor was exhausting and long, yet very fun. We all learned a lot about how to build a trail. The whole trip had very crazy weather, mostly thunderstorms every night that shook the tents! Then came

Michael, Walter and Max made the drive to The Summit, the National High Adventure Scout Camp. The Summit has a great program for scouts, including white water rafting, zip lines, a full skate park, mountain biking and mountain boarding. The Summit is located in the heart of West Virginia. The

We woke to falling rain at 6am. Not bad considering several scouts did put up a rain fly last night. Breaking camp with a pop tart in our belly, we set off at 7:30. We canoed like nobody’s business this morning. We paddled past Oil City and the rain started

We had another beautiful day on the river. We even got to spend some time in a small town in Tionesta, PA. I can’t believe it is almost over, the time went so quickly. Let me list some of the cool things we did today: • a canoe almost capsized

We are all in good spirits. We had a great night last night. We bushwhacked on a primitive primordial island. We kept looking around for Velociraptors. No rain and a full moon. It was fantastic. Jacob and Logan have been treating us well feeding us as they are working on

We made it to the livery in good time, less than two hours. We are unpacked and ready to load up. We are being transported 50 miles up river to begin our journey. Don’t expect much of a signal, so we’ll update in 4 days.

Last weekend, Logan completed his Eagle project, constructing a shed at the WHS football field. Congratulations to him.

Troop 155 would like to wish everybody a happy and safe 4th of July. And thank you to all service men and women who have made our freedom possible.