Rodeo Cleanup 2016

On the last weekend of March our troop cleaned up after messy humans at the Elma Rodeo.  We started at 8:00am. We grabbed some brooms and garbage bags and started cleaning. First we checked the bleachers for garbage. Second we swept the grandstands of all the dirt and crud.  Then we wiped the bleachers of grime.  After that, on Sunday we went under the bleachers and cleaned up all of trash down there and tried not to gag. By the end of the day, the Rodeo was relatively clean and the rest of us not-so-clean. 

under the bleachers

many, many trash bags

Eric displaying the hat and sunglasses he found

Grays Harbor Mounted Posse Rodeo paid us very well for 5 1/2 hours of cleaning.  This will be known as the year of the umbrellas (we found 3 umbrellas).

- Dan the Historian

Last Summer at Camp Hahobas

(We didn't know it at the time, but this was to be the last summer camp at Hahobas.) 

This summer for Boy Scout camp we went to Camp Hahobas for summer camp.  Camp Hahobas is located near the Hood Canal area (on the Hood Canal).  The scouts who came were the same as last year:  Eric, Joseph, and myself (Dan).  Except this year we had an extra boy come from another troop.  His name was Jeff.  We learned halfway through camp that he is the half-brother of Torgi from Troop 305!  What a small world!  Eric was going to try to become a CIT (counselor in training) this year but he remembered he had Drivers Ed.

relaxing first day after setting up camp

lining up for flag

Joe blacksmithing

 TORTURE!  They finally got everyone over the wall with some help

awesome indoor bouldering wall

Eric the monkey!

the gummy worm block

more blacksmithing

we might have been the only troop that earned the right to do the zipline!

Jeff working on his archery merit badge

On the first day of camp, it was really hot.  It got up to 93degrees!  Our two troop guides were Erik and Luke, they were kind of goofy.  The Merit badges I earned were Pioneering, Metalworking, and I almost earned Orienteering.  On one of the last days, Mom was looking in the van and found the gummy worms we had bought before camp.  They had melted then solidified into a gummy block.  We shared it with the staffers, who thought it was pretty cool and funny.   This year of summer camp was fun, like always.

- Dan the Historian Man