July 15 2018

Peruvian Brownie Quest LiA Journey Weekend

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Because llamas!

I was thinking about this blog the other day, and I realized I should highlight my experiences as a troop leader more often.  I’ve shared what we’ve done as a service unit with our annual summer camp in previous posts, but I should step back from the big picture on occasion and show what’s going on in my world at the troop level.  I have to state for the record that this was best troop year I’ve experienced in my eight years as a leader.  We had a smaller troop this year, but we more than made up for it with activities, service projects, meetings, and trips.  I was very blessed to have a great set of co-leaders, parents, girls, and a very supportive service unit.  I’m going to share a couple of the highlights from this past year in future blog posts.  This one will feature the Peruvian Brownie Quest Journey LiA Weekend from this past January!  Continue reading

July 5 2018

A 1950 Camp WaBak Kind of Day

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In addition to random write-ups about Camp WaBak here and there through the years, I’ve been detailing its history in a series of posts.  The first two were Camp WaBak’s Beginnings and Camp WaBak’s Opening.  This one will discuss what camp life was like at its beginning!

A year after the successful inaugural summer of 1949, Camp WaBak expanded so that it could host 40 girls a week instead of only 30.  In 1950, a May 18th article in The Greenville News noted camp improvements included an expanded staff area, an enlarged dining porch, new campfire areas for outdoor cooking, a paved road leading from the main road to the camp, and a bridge over Gap Creek. Continue reading