12 April 2010
When We Ruled Camporee
Posted by admin under: Outings .
Went to our District Camporee this weekend with my Venture Crew. We combined with some other units to form Crew 1 so we could provide support for volunteers. We served breakfast to the hundreds of scouts and scouters (I think the count was in the 600’s), served lunch to them, tallied all the score sheets (a team of 3 with an adult), delivered supplies to the various events (mainly scoring related), and then checked everyone out of their camp sites on Sunday morning staying late enough to dump all the trash in the dumpsters and make sure everything was spic and span.
We also wanted to compete against other Venture crews, but they didn’t show up and we had absorbed the small groups except for the Josepho crew who were monitoring radios and manning the first aid station. So we competed against ourselves and not surprisingly took first place in every single event. As a personal point of pride, my 15 year old daughter had the fastest time on the rock wall out of any Scout at the event. It wasn’t even fair. She’s been taking dance lessons since she was 3 and could probably out-kick Chuck Norris and only weighs as much as one of his biceps.
This was the ultimate event out at the Tejon Ranch near Lebec, California, capping all of the camporees that had come prior. Funny enough, the organizers didn’t really have any expectations for us when we arrived, but we made a big impression while there, especially my Assistant Advisor who really pulled it all together. We starved a little bit as the guys didn’t double-check the patrol box we borrowed from our fraternal troop and so we had no frying pans or pots. I think they’ll remember to check next time.
It was a great time and I even got to be in a skit with our rangemaster and got to shoot off a couple of blank rounds. I got to kill one of the main organizers of the camporee. He died well. He’s the guy on the scaffold in the picture. Next weekend is Cuboree and the weekend after that is Gathering of All Mariners (GAM). My wife is starting to miss me a little bit, but she’d rather do that than haul out the camp mattress for Cuboree.
Scouting is fun! And sunburny. 
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