Below is the plan for Friday's snow caving campout.
- Location: Kehl family cabin near Brighton Ski Resort
- Time: Friday, 2:30pm at Jason Kelly's home
- Packing: When we meet on Friday we will conduct a pack check to make sure the boys are fully prepared with everything from the winter camping check list found on www.scouting230.com, it would also be helpful for the boys to bring avalanche style snow shovels (sturdy, small heads, short handles) if you have one for the snow cave building process.
- Food: The troop will be planning our meal and shopping for food right after the pack check on Friday (this is a cooking merit badge requirement). Your son may want to bring a couple dollars to buy treats.
- Volunteers: We could really use a few dads/grandpas to volunteer to attend this event, it is a good one to come to because you can sleep in a bed or on a couch (out of the cold and off of the ground)
For those of you who have sons coming for the first time on this event, I want to soothe your anxiety by giving you a few details about snow caves.
- The adult leaders will be providing training on how to build a safe snow cave and will be supervising and helping in the actual build process.
- The adult leaders will inspect the caves for safety
- Sleeping in the snow cave will be warm and fairly comfortable. It is probably bigger than you think. We'll try to make one big enough for all the boys to sleep together. See video from last year below.
- If there are any issues the boys will be able to come sleep inside on the floor, although we will only tell them this if a real problem pops up.
- Winter camping requires preparation to be fun, this is not the camp to let your son pack for himself for the first time. Please inspect his stuff to make sure he has a change of clothes, and all the items on the winter camping checklist.
We'd love a confirmation if you and/or your son can attend so we can plan for food, etc..
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