By Curren Gentry

This overnight was not like most in the past. This time we had to make a shelter out of tarps and hay to sleep in. It was also different because the leaders set up stations to help us with our Scouting skills, kind of like the Klondike Derby. The stations where First aid, Beebe guns, Shelter building, and Lashings. My favorite out of all the stations was the Beebe guns. Then after we got done with our Scouting skills we thought that it would be cool to make a huge snow ball and roll it down the hill. It took a lot of strength but we got it down the hill and we even made another snowball the same size.

It was also a utensiless overnight, so we made our dinners in foil and cooked them in hot coals. I put Hamburger, Onions, and Potatoes in mine. It was easy to make and tasted great. After dinner and before it was dark all us boys had a huge snowball fight in the woods. When we were all tired from playing we headed back to camp to hang out by the campfire and go to sleep.

In the morning we had to make our own utensiless breakfast so people started cooking eggs, sausages, and biscuits. Most of the people had a hard time with cooking there biscuits on a stick. Then after we packed up and ate our breakfast we had a HUGE snowball fight with all the boys and leaders. I had a lot of fun on this overnight.

(See more pictures from the 2/26/11 overnight at Blue & Grey in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)