Summer Camp Planning

July 17 – 20: 2012: Advance Camp

July 20 – 27: Summer Camp

July 28: Summer Camp Clean-up

Location: (targeting) Loon Lake

Summer camp planning is well underway, so make sure you’ve set aside the week!

This summer our troop will continue its unique, 50-year tradition of building its own summer camp at a lake in the high Sierra.  Summer camp offers Scouts waterfront activities, wood skills, working with others in their patrols, campfire experiences and having lots of fun, all in a beautiful wilderness setting.

Some advancement opportunities will include a 5-mile troop hike, First Class orienteering course, Trail to First Class requirements and over 20 merit badges, including Camping, Canoeing, Communications, several crafts merit badges, Emergency Preparedness, Environmental Science, Fishing, Geocaching, Lifesaving, Nature, Orienteering, Photography, Pioneering, Sailing and – of course – Swimming.

There will be patrol contests such as canoe races, wood chopping and the two-man saw.  The Scouts enjoy games like Kajabe Can-Can, Two Ball and the very popular White Bomb.  It’s a great experience!

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Current Weather – near 2012 Summer Camp area

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Photos from Last Year’s Summer Camp

 

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History of Troop 27 Summer Camps

Troop 27 continues an annual tradition of Summer Camp outings that spans over six decades.  Here is a list of Summer Camp & Jamboree events and locations from previous years:

1952 – Camp Pomponio
1953 – National Jamboree – Irvine Ranch, California
1954 – Camp Pomponio
1955 – Camp Pomponio
1956 – Camp Pomponio
1957 – 9th World Jamboree – England & Camp Ed Barrer – California
1958 – Evolution Valley
1959 – Camp Kit Carson
1960 – Walker Meadow
1961 – Leavitts Meadow
1962 – Camp Kit Carson
1963 – Walker Meadow
1964 – Graveyard Lake
1965 – Florence Lake
1966 – Icehouse Lake
1967 – Walker Meadow
1968 – Edison Lake
1969 – Echo Lake
1970 – Walker Meadow
1971 – Edison Lake
1972 – Utica Lake
1973 – Walker Meadow
1974 – Caples Lake
1975 – Union Lake
1976 – Walker Meadow
1977 – Spicer Meadow
1978 – Spicer Lake
1979 – Walker Meadow
1980 – Union Lake
1981 – Cherry Lake
1982 – Walker Meadow
1983 – Cherry Lake
1984 – Spicer Lake
1985 – Molybdnite Creek
1986 – Hell Hole
1987 – Lake Spaulding
1988 – Lake Bowman
1989 – Lake Saulding
1990 – Meadow Lake
1991 – Union Reservoir
1992 – Union Reservoir
1993 – Lake Spaulding
1994 – Spicer Reservoir
1995 – Bear River
1996 – Camp Oljato
1996 – Union Lake
1997 – Lake Spaulding
1998 – Lodgepole, Lk Valley
1999 – Spicer Reservoir
2000 – Union Lake
2001 – Utica Lake
2002 – Lake Spaulding
2003 – Lake of the Woods
2004 – Sawmill Lake
2005 – Union Lake
2006 – Feeley Lake
2007 – Sawmill Lake
2008 – Utica Reservoir
2009 – Lake of the Woods
2010 – Union Reservoir
2011 – Lake Spaulding
2012 – … in planning now …