Augustcampout

This is the leaders' guide to the annual Pack campout, held mid-August at Mt. Madonna.

Adult positions:

• Camp director
• Program director (games, events, and campfire)
• Chef (in charge of food)
• Parent Leader - asks parents to help (usually supervise free time, also host games if needed)
• Game Host - sets up game, directs game, records dens' scores and ranks

Boy Scout positions:

• Troop Guide - leads a den on hike, in events, and to campfire, teaches skit for campfire
• Game Host - sets up game, directs game, records dens' scores and ranks
• cook - helps Chef, sets up meal, serves food, cleans up

Friday evening

• Boy Scouts and Webelos arrive, responsible for their own dinner. Boy Scouts are in Cherokee. Webelos are in Buckhorn.
• campfire prep

Saturday morning

• everyone responsible for his own breakfast
• make sure campfire is dead-out. Have Webelos build campfire (not light it) for Saturday night. (This is an AB req.)
• Cub Scouts start arriving
• Boy Scouts help Cub families unload and direct them to campsites. Cubs are in Buckhorn and Arrowhead.
• 6 Cubs make a den. As soon as there are 6 Cubs set up (tent pitched, etc.), a Troop Guide (Boy Scout) and at least one adult (with a watch) takes them on a hike. The first group to set out is Den A, then Deb B, etc. Make sure everyone has a water bottle. Do not return from the hike until 12:45. If they are tired or you're not sure where to go, hang out and play at the Miller Ruins.
• As you approach the arrival of the last expected Cubs, be sure that the last couple dens have at least 4 and no more than 7.

Saturday morning, late

• Begin lunch preparation. Game Hosts eat first and then go set up their games.
• Have lunch ready for Cubs as they get back from the hike.

Saturday lunch

• Dens eat together and stay together.

Saturday afternoon

• Cooks keep punch and water coolers filled during the games.
• Games are in a round robin. Den A starts at Game 1, Den B at Game 2, etc. It is important to have at least as many games as dens. (It is better to have a bye at a game than a den with nothing to do.) Calculate the time needed at each event; for example, if the games are from 1:30 to 5:00 and there are 7 games, then that is 30 minutes per game.
• The Program Director needs to watcdh the clock and blow a whistle when it's time to rotate games.
• Each Game Host needs to tell the current den where to go next.
• 4:30 Cooks need to report to the Chef for dinner set-up.
• 5:00 games end. Game Hosts submit their den rankings to the Program Director. Troop Guides rehearse skits with dens.
• 5:30 Cooks eat dinner first, prepare to serve. Troop Guides keep dens together, get them to wash hands.

Saturday evening

• 6:00 dinner. Den A eats first, then Den B, etc.
• 6:30 Boy Scouts and Den Leaders prepare and review campfire program. Rehearse Troop skits and opening song.
• 7:00 after-dinner event (away from and out-of-view of the campfire circle). (For example, in the past this has been watermelon.) During this, the Program Director and the Camp Director review game rankings and determine the winning den. (Each member of the winning den gets a special prize at the campfire.)
• Clean up, put on Class A uniforms. Parent Leader prepares s'mores.
• Troop Guides assemble their dens away from the campfire. Rehearse Den skits one last time. Await campfire guide.
• 8:00 One at a time, the campfire guide gets a den (A, then B, etc.) and leads them to the circle.
• campfire
• night hike
• s'mores (upon return from night hike)

Sunday morning

• breakfast
• break camp
• police the are to make sure no garbage (or equipment) remains.