Troop 697 News

Meetings:

September 23 - bring permission slips and payment for Lake Powell Trip, final chance to sign up for this great trip! Family members are welcome.

September 30 - PLC meeting.

August 26, 2008 - Congratulations to our two newest Eagle Scouts, Brandon Gurtler and Spencer Kittredge!

Our next outing will be a campout at Lake Powell the weekend of September 27-29. Permission slips have be distributed for this outing and the trip leaders will be collecting them at troop meetings. Please sign up early so the trip leaders can make sure there are enough boats and vehicles to get everyone to camp. Don't miss out, this will be an awesome outing! Activites will include boating, fishing, tubing, water skiing, and a special geocache trip. Trip Leaders: Tom Axelson, Marci Beaudoin.

In October we'll be backpacking in the Superstition Mountains through Haunted Canyon, a troop favorite! And then in November we'll be returning to Aravaipa Canyon for another great adventure.

Special Events

Eagle Project - Coby Bruckner

October 4 - meet at Coby's house at 8:00 a.m. to pick up donations.

For information on Advancement Day: Click here
Merit Badge Prerequisites and Registration Form: Click here

Summer Camps/Activities

Philmont Trek - July 5-17, 2009

Join a Grand Canyon Council trek to Philmont Scout Ranch July 5 – 17, 2009. If you are interested in going to Philmont Scout Ranch on a council sponsored trek, get your backpacking buddies together now and sign up to go. Only 9 provisional crews will go from our Council for 2009: 10 Scouts and 2 adults per crew. Applications and $100 deposit must be received at the Council office, by US Mail only, postmarked AFTER April 14, 2008. Click here for more info.

If you take pictures at any of our outings (campouts, hikes, meetings, etc), I would greatly appreciate copies of them. You can burn me a CD or upload them directly to our web site using Windows Explorer, the standard file and folder viewer, type ftp.bsatroop697.com into the address window and hit the enter key. A dialog box comes up asking you to enter the username and password (email me for this info). The shared file space on the server comes up just like a local folder on your hard drive and you can just drag and drop files and folders onto the server. I prefer to have uncompressed, unedited picture files if possible. Thank you!! Deb Moreash.