Orienteering Ho!

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We’re still plodding along with the Cadette Outdoor Journey. I thought we’d be done by now, but we’re soooooooo close. Just one more step in the Night Owl badge! But even though we went on a backpacking trip this past June (which I will be highlighting in a future post), technically we didn’t cover all of the steps for the Trailblazing badge, which is part of the Outdoor Journey. One of the choices for Step 4 is “practice navigating with a map and compass or GPS unit.” Continue reading

December 25 2018

Merry Christmas from 1942!

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It’s Christmas Day, and I’ve just woken up from a nap and eaten a leftover turkey sandwich. I normally wouldn’t have written a blog post on Christmas, but I noticed something very special in one of my presents and wanted to share it today.

I collect Girl Scout handbooks (imagine that!), and my husband gave me a 1942 handbook as a Christmas gift:

December 10 2018

Encampment Rain, Rain, Go Away

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This post took a little bit longer to write than I had anticipated, but I’ve been working on some time consuming projects not to mention running two troop levels! But much earlier in the year I stated I wanted to write more about our troop and our adventures, so here we go.

For the past few years, our service unit held our encampment at Camp Pisgah, which is part of the Peaks to Piedmont council. Our encampments are well attended, so we normally take up the entire camp and that makes it hard to get one scheduled. We hadn’t held one at our home camp called WaBak since 2013, so we tried once again and was able to land a date this past May. We were all very excited to be able to come back “home.”

We didn’t have a theme for this year’s Encampment, so each troop was in charge of planning their own activities. I am usually a procrastinator, but I was so excited that I planned our weekend two months ahead of time! And even included a schedule! Additionally, I put together a list of activities for our service unit that can be done at WaBak. I was PUMPED! Continue reading