IBEX’s was one of my best experiences. The climbing wall was 32 feet high and was very fun. The bouldering wall was only 13 feet tall and you didn’t need to have a person to belay you. This activity has been my favorite memory in Boy Scouts yet.

The IBEX”s overnight was a great experience. It was an overnight with the treat of having something for everyone from standing around on comfortable mats to serious climbing for those who wanted it. It was also a rare treat to have an overnight that opened the possibility of merit badge advancement. Generous leadership providing a late night pizza and pop recharge for everyone. It was an overnight that had nothing but great activities and great company.

I really enjoyed my time spent at IBEX’s. It was my first time there and my first time at climbing. There’s something satisfying about becoming a certified climber and then climbing all night until you are exhausted. Would I do it again, of course, without a doubt? It was some of the most fun in a physical activity that I’ve had in a while.

My experience at IBEX’s Climbing Wall was breath taking. It was very fun and exciting. All the climbing that was done was very challenging and fun. The bouldering wall area was fun and challenging as well.

The overnight was more than I expected when we walked in and looked at the climbing walls it seemed trippy. I never got use to the views. And not even two hours into climbing almost everyone’s hands hurt. Around 12 I already felt like dropping Down on the ground and sleeping. I think this climbing overnight was truly one of the better overnights.

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The Blue and Gray Park Overnight was great. We got to do many activities and all the food was amazing too. The Patrol meals seemed to look good too. For dinner the patrols had pizza, taco salad, steak burritos and hamburgers. For breakfast the patrols had pancakes, eggs, bacon, ham, cheese and egg sandwiches, and sausage and cheese burritos. The troop had a flag retirement ceremony after our troop campfire, which had great songs and skits. I think everyone liked it. Both the campfire and flag retirement ceremony was very well attended by the parents of the scouts. I would like to thank everyone who came on this overnight and I encourage those who didn’t make it out on this overnight to come to the October overnight which is the 23, 24 and 25. You are missing out on a lot of fun.

What a great overnight the Troop had with the Cub Scouts at Blue and Gray Park on September 25, 26 and 27, 2015. The troop put on an overnight for 15 Cub Scouts and some 30 parents of the Pack. The events the troop had were a monkey bridge, marshmallow guns, obsolete course, paper air plane contest and rocket shooting. We couldn’t have asked for a better weekend to spend out in the woods with the Troop and Cub Pack. After the events the Troop prepared taco salad with all the fixings for dinner with the help of the Bear Den. Once dinner was all cleaned up everyone had a little time to relax until the evening campfire where we had songs and skits by the Trop. The Pack wolf Den even had a great skit to help with the entertainment for the evening. We closed the campfire with a flag retirement ceremony. After campfire the Pack was treated to homemade cobblers. After a little more relaxing everyone turned in for the evening. On Sunday morning the Cub Pack was woken by bugle calls, a flag ceremony and breakfast which had a lot of French toast, sausage, mike and orange juice. After everything was cleaned up the Cub Pack broke camp and head home. The Troop is looking forward to another combined overnight in the spring of 2016.

The meaning of Mic-O-Say is friendship and warmth. But what does Mic-O-Say mean to me and how does it inspire me. First let me talk about how it inspired me as a Scout(Young Man) and later as an Leader. As a first year camper in 1969 watching Call Night I was very much captivated by the activities of Call Night and knew right then and there that I wanted to be apart of the program that is called Mic-O-Say. So I listened and watched the older boys in the Troop that were called and became Braves and Warriors that summer. It didn’t stop there as I watched them again next year at summer camp hearing their names called at Call Night and becoming Braves and Warriors. And I noticed that they were Senior Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Quartermaster, Scribe, Patrol Leader, Assistant Patrol Leader, and so on. I figured out that they had a job of some form of leadership so I thought I need a job in the Troop so that I can show leadership. So I became an Assistant Patrol Leader and it was my third year at Summer Camp so this year I figured I would hear my name called for Foxman. So it is Visitor Sunday and Call Night, I am excited to hear my name called for Foxman that night as my Mother, sisters, brothers, and Grandparents are there to watch me get called to be a Foxman. So I sit there with anticipation as the names are called one by one to hear my name called for Foxman. As the last name is called and the Sachem says “That completes the call for Foxman”. My heart dropped, I thought where did I fail, what did I do wrong, and most of all I let my family down I thought. As I was thinking all of these thoughts, Tribal Council was calling Braves. I sat there still thinking what had I not done to hear my name called as my friends were hearing their names being called for Brave. Then out of the still of the night I hear, “Mike Norton Troop 282”. Did I hear right my name being called for Brave, I was shocked. I wasn’t a Foxman. I stood proudly and moved past the first row of seats to be escorted by a Runner. So I thought what did I do to be called to be a Brave in Mic-O-Say. So I started listing them in my head. I attended every meeting, overnight and scouting activity. I was an assistant patrol leader so I had a specific job so I can show leadership. But I found out later that you don’t need a job or title to show leadership, you just need to lead by example. I figured that out as I said earlier that I watched the older boys that were called and copied what they did. Which was always helping the younger Scouts, setting up tents, carrying their packs, teaching them how to cook, or helping them do dishes to name just a few. So basically “Helping other people”, which is a phrase in the Scout Oath. Therefore I figured that my name was called for Brave by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law. By hearing my name called that first time it has inspired me to live the Scout Oath and Scout Law in life and to hear it Tribal name called since, in Tribal fashion. 
Now as a Leader I know that if it wasn’t for Mic-O-Say keeping me involved in Boy Scouts as an older boy I would not of attained the rank of Eagle Scout. I also would not of went on Summer Camp Staff or be back in Scouting if Mic-O-Say had not instilled in me to live by the Scout Oath and Scout Law. The Scout Oath and The Scout Law is very easy to say but very hard to live by. If you do your very best of living by the Scout Oath and Scout Law, then you too someday may be an Eagle Scout and a Tribesman of Mic-O-Say. 

Sachem Swift Falling Tree 
Mike Norton

When we first got there we got off the bus. We asked the lady in the front what we could do. She said we could fill up the buckets with water in the big one and diet coke, coke, and sprite in the smaller ones. She also told us we could put up a tent for some of us. Hunter, me and mason went to the place she said to find it. After that we got the parts to put it up. Then we spread it out and put it together. Not too long after that me, hunter, mason, and brandon played Doctor Who monopoly. I got the most income because I had three hotels. I was starting to lose money but Mr. Wyatt said we had to rap it up so hunter took pictures of everyone’s money and cards and stuff because he wanted to play it at camp. That was some of my favorite things in our overnight.