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Our first campout as Troop 26 G

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 So, we were finally a troop, the next step was to go on a campout so we made plans Camp Cedars on the third weekend of August. We were going to work on our Firemen chit, Totin chit, and requirements for our first few ranks.  So first we needed to plan, how were we going to do this? Our first meeting was spent planning. We had planned to borrow our linked boys troops axe box to use for totin chit. The meal planning and oh boy were we in over our heads! Of course most of us had been camping with our families but we rarely cooked at those so we thought it would be a good idea to make pancakes for breakfast Saturday morning. Now if you have been camping yes pancakes are easy to make for the most part unless your inexperienced in camp cooking and fire building but after a hour of trying to cook the pancakes it was done! But oh wait we have to cook our eggs in the same pan as we took half of the boys gear, luckily eggs aren't too hard to cook so no problem right? Oh yeah I almost f...

The Beginning

It all started in February 1st, 2019, the day Boy Scouts became Scouts BSA, the day anyone could join. I heard of this news and my mom asked me if I would want to join, now at the time I was in a different program that shall not be named, when she asked I broke down in tears and said I didn't want to leave my friends, what I didn't know at the time that year on July 30th, 2019, I would become one of the founding members of Troop 26G.      In mid-June 2019 my mom and I were at a recruiting event for the program I was in at the time, we were the booth next to the Cub Scout pack and Boys troop that my brothers are in, and the pack had decided to allow girls, or become "A family pack". My mom started to think more about where those girls would go once they cross over, and at the time the program I was apart of was no longer teaching me the things I want to learn, at the end of the recruiting event I got in the car, and thought to myself that I didn't like the program ...