Lost Valley 2009

July 18^th – 25^th

Troop 86 Camp Log

Sunday, 7/19/09

Rained a bit last night, woke up @ 6:30 am, will be going to Sacrament meeting at 8:00, President Beck, the Y/M’s General President, will be speaking

We left the church at 11:00 and didn’t get here till 5. Had some car problems and that delayed us a bit.

We had an “OK” sleep and the bugs are really annoying me!

Lunch was pretty good … the patches are starting to annoy me though … I need the teal! Pretty Patch.

I did a carwash for THIS! And I’m sad cause I’m not able to spend time with Loney :(

Today we did Church activities, we had Sacrament and had lessons.

I’m writing in orange, Rebellion!

Great Day! Learned a lot from the boys. They surprise me at time J

Sunday was okay, didn’t enjoy wearing class A the whole time and the neckerchiefs are annoying me, however, I did manage to obtain almost a complete set of patches! Sacrament was good, however, I “accidentally” fell asleep. The Duty to God classes we took were organized horribly. I ended up with the deacon’s group and we had to travel from our dining hall to Irvine, the other camp’s dining hall and surprise, we were lost til the last class.

Monday, 7/20/09

Had a Great Night Sleep. Camp T Shirts “Yee pee”  J

Don’t Dehydrate! One thing they need is more sleep/nap time! Everything else is fine mostly.

I’m beginning to wonder why this is called camping. It’s mostly do as they say and you can leave in a week. Hopefully.  

Monday got a complete set of patches!!! Now if only San Diego will come out with one. I’ve enjoyed all my merit badges so far except wilderness survival. Hopefully that will get better. I’m going to the Indian Lore/Archaeology overnighter, hopefully that’ll be fun.

Just got all 13 patches today. Plus 2 other staff patches. We also traded cards which I got a few of them. Some cards are easy to get, some are more rare.

The camp staff is not really prepared and bugs are annoying.

Trading patches and cards is hard to do, since everyone already has most of them.

Today was hard finding my classes and it was very hot.

Tuesday, 7/21/09

Sitting in our camp, all the boys at their classes, no one else around …. Priceless. Blue Jays keeping me company, a cool drink and some crackers, that’s all I need. All the boys know where their classes are. Their tents are clean and neat! We have a great group of boys in our ward and scout troop and I’m very proud of each one of them.

It’s Tuesday J That means only 4 more days. Yesness.

Ahh, swimming is therapeutic…I feel soo much better now. Yay! Blah! Extreme happinessness.

I had fun trying to earn all my badges today, but there are some really annoying scouts in 3 of my classes. Ryan and Brendan think they’re annoying, too.

Today was much better because I knew where to go and I could get there faster.

I have yet to have a good night sleep so far. All three leaders in my first three classes were 20 minutes late. OK, well, I am off to horsemanship.

Alright, I finally taught my troop the two games I learned at Indian Lore tonight. I think that people had a lot of fun. Yipee! Also at wilderness survival, kids paid attention so we actually accomplished something.

Wednesday, 7/22/09

Another day of Polar Bear. It was ok but sticking my head in the water was hard. And the secret to staying warm is to NOT take a shower B 4.

Big Pine Campground scores another perfect 40/40 in campsite inspection. Troop 86 rocks the camping world!!! 

We smell funny. 

We are going on an overnighter for wilderness survival. Hope we can survive! 

Okay, so at wilderness survival, Me, Whitebread and Rye built a shelter that we have to sleep in tonight, but Rye is thinking of backing out. Also, the counselor for Indian Lore is a great artist and he draws various characters from comics or movies. He sold me three for five dollars. One has the Union Jack, lego two face, Daredevil. They were drawn on fobs. 

Today was very good going to classes. 

Thursday, 7/23/09 

Just completed polar bear day 3, can’t wait to finish my merit badge classes. 

Polar Bear @ 6:00 am. 58 degrees outside temp. Invigorating. Refreshing. Vortex of Cold. Actually having nice weather, not as hot as I expected. Had waffles for breakfast, very good. Our campsite inspection scored our third consecutive perfect score, 40/40. That will get us released early tonight for dinner. 

Got stung by a bee for the First time L Fortunately, I didn’t go into shock because I’m writing this. Also, no more classes. 

I waz L8 30 mins to swimin and had a fun time with close on in duh pool. Still hate camp. 

I SURVIVED! Yeah, I had about the best night’s sleep ever in the world’s best makeshift shelter. 

Today was really nice and I got stuff for my family. 

Not only did Bryan survive the overnighter, I did too!!! Now…it was a good shelter even if in the middle of the night a group of kids threw a rock, breaking a beam…We made some mid-night repairs needless to say but survived. You know, I’m actually glad to sleep in my tent tonight. Showered, assembly, great breakfast and the most important, Finished all Merit Badges. 

Awesome Day, sad to be going home in 2 days. It was great with everyone. We as Troop 86 rock. J 

The funnest time I had was Rifle Shooting. 

Soda and clothes don’t go together. I just realized that they were freshly washed. L 

Friday, 7/24/09 

I FINISHED POLAR BEAR so I’ll get a patch soon and I finished all of my merit badges. 

I am so glad I finished Polar Bear and my merit badges 

Everything is drawing to a close here at lost valley we go home tomorrow. 

I am a success at life! Yay! Now I’m going to buy a ham radio. 

Summer Camp is drawing to a close L Our scouts have earned a ton of merit badges. This afternoon we will be participating in the Strength for Youth games, then the closing carnival. Boys have done a GREAT job. 

Camp, Camp, Camp…:/ 

The end … The bitter sweet end. Well, all I can say is it has been a great week, tons of fun and tons of laughs. The staff is great and if I play my cards right maybe I can be one next summer. Well, Goodbye!!! 

We survived. 

Last Word: 

Lost Valley was the first long term summer camp for four of our scouts, and they did a great job. In spite of very hot weather, dust and long distances between classes, our whole troop of eight boys had a great time and lived the Scout Oath and Law. Getting up at 5:45 in the morning, standing in assemblies and in lines at the mess hall, running to classes to be on time even if the instructor was late, all the boys did their best to have a fun time at camp. During the week we had various duties to perform as a troop and those were taken care of, well done. Even cleaning out the bathroom and showers at the pool. After a long day of merit badge classes, our evenings were spent attending staff shows, enjoying quite time, playing checkers/chess, or playing new games the boys learned in their classes. We closed with scripture study, testimonies, and thorns and roses. Our eight scouts earned a total of 35 merit badges, which included: swimming, archaeology, Indian lore, rifle shooting, horsemanship, first aid, environmental science (one of their favorites), pottery, camping, wilderness survival and a surprise badge, Radio. Great work Ryan, Brendan, Adam, Bryan, Nick, Jonathan, Steven and Eric! Troop 86! Cougars!