Boy Scout Troop One from Logan, Utah (Sponsored by the Logan Lions Club-Trapper Trails Council-Old Ephraim District) is preparing to celebrate our 100th anniversary as a continuously chartered scouting unit with specially scheduled activities each month through the year 2010. Troop One is the oldest Boy Scout Troop west of the Mississippi River, and will be celebrating our 100th anniversary as a scouting unit in March 2010. Boys between the ages of 11-17 who are interested in joining Troop One need to visit our troop meetings at First Presbyterian Church, 178 West Center Street in Logan, Tuesday’s between 7:00-8:30 pm. Troop One is a non-denominational scouting unit.
Saturday, September 19-Bear Lake
After a beautiful night under the stars along the western shore of Bear Lake, eight Troop One scouts along with Assistant Scoutmasters Randy Martin and Stu Parkinson went on a 5-mile hike in the Cache National Forest east of Fish Haven, Idaho. Before the hike began, Assistant Scoutmaster Randy Martin showed all scouts a topographical map of the area to be hiked, showing landmarks the scouts would see, and gave each scout instruction on how to read a compass.
Two and a half miles into the trip, Senior Patrol Leader Andy Finlayson decided it might be nice to have the scouts experience the joys of bushwhacking along a recent elk trail, so the ten of us proceeded to do just that! As we came off the ridge onto the dirt trail, we had a mile and a half downhill hike back to our parked vehicles. In addition to the scouts learning map and compass skills, they also learned how to estimate the time it takes to walk a mile uphill and downhill. With these newly learned skills, all of the scouts came within a few minutes of predicting the actual time it took to complete the hike.
As the ten of us were hiking in the Cache National Forest, Scoutmaster Tom Hogan was busy staking a beautiful spot along the southwest shore of Bear Lake for the boys to swim in after their 5 mile journey; He placed floating buoys in the water following the Boy Scouts of America policy of Safe Swim Defense, which all scouting units follow when they swim as a scout group.
As we rolled into the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church of Logan at 4:00 pm on Saturday, all were glad to have experienced a beautiful fall weekend in northern Utah, and the joys of scouting!
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