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The NCAC Centennial Camporee, Goshen Scout Reservation

May 29-31, 2010

Brandon, Ben and Daniel M raise the colors over the Troop camp site.

For this rare occasion, the adults prepare a meal for the Scout competitors.

Troop tent's on line.

For a brief time Scouts could enjoy a relaxing moment to think trough the events of the weekend.

Dinner time and a violent lightening storm rolls through.

Troops were packed close togehter. 2400 Scouts and Scouters spent the weekend at Camp Olmsted one of several sub camps which together housed between 7 and 8 thousand people

Marching off to Saturday evening religious service as tomorrow would not be a day of rest.

Sunday a.m. and we put our new coffee mess to it's first test. Thank you Eagle Scout Tom Whitaker.

By 0800 the Scouts were on Snyder Field. It was HUGE!

Ten Activity Stations each having ten or twelve competition sites. Okay, the photographer doesn't know how to use the panorama setting. (But you can get the idea.)

By the time the photographer caught up with the patrol, they were finishing their third competition. You can see them along the far tree line.

Erik leads them to their next event.

Receiving instructions from the official.

Taking muster.

The patrol was divided in two and placed on opposite sides of an imaginary lava flow.

Using provided staves and lashings, the object was to secure the staves in a manner that permitted them to be passed across the lava flow without touching the firey abyss.

The official has a question!

At the Electric Fence, the patrol had to get everyone across a chest high fence using only the three staves provided, some lashings and their imagination. No one was to touch the "hot" wires.

During the two minute prep time they developed a strategy derived from watching a WWI documentary where soldiers used their rifles as stairs to breech barbed wire obstacles.

Taller scouts went first and established the top step on the other side of the obstacle.

There were some exciting crossings!

Pretty soon there was only one step on the near side!

For the final two Scouts there was no step on the near side!

Come on Karl!