Our first campout as Troop 26 G

 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 forgot! Our bacon that we had to cook in the same pan.. let's just say we have never made the mistake of taking 3 hours to make breakfast ever again as a troop, after that we decided to take a walk by the lake there to get a few requirements marked off on our walk we ran into one of the members of what is now The Covered Wagon challenge. At the time it was the NBZ. He said that they were having a camp this weekend and were using the shooting range down at Cedars and asked us to join them. All of us were so excited and agreed we followed him to the shooting range, he introduce us to everyone and we got to saw cedar trees, shoot shotguns and bows, and then we took a walk to the nature center there. Later on we meant up with our linked troop and played sports the rest of the day. We had so much fun just at our first campout we were buzzed for what was too come, and that was just the beginning.