By J.P. Joyce Troop Scribe

The overnight on September 17th and 18th was cold and rainy, the overnight started out pretty good and then the weather decided to turn for the worse while camp was being set up. After all five patrols finished setting up camp in the rain each patrol sit down and ate lunch under their patrol dinning flies. A couple of hours after the lunch the sun did finally came back out and started drying things out a little bite. This is when the Sr. Patrol Leader and the Asst. Sr. Patrol Leader thought it was best to have a knot tying relay patrol against patrol. After the knot tying relay it was time for each patrol to start fixing dinner. The patrol leaders took charge and moved their patrols to their campsites to start building fires. This was a real challenge as all the wood was wet. All of the patrols were up for the challenge as they all had fires started in no time at all and dinner was under way. All the patrol’s had some great recipes that came out our troop’s resource book. Once dinner was done and clean up was done the patrol had a little patrol time to think about their skits and songs for campfire.

It was now time for the troop to move to campfire and what a campfire it was. The Jr. Asst. Scoutmaster’s had built one big fire. It was great. The Troop’s Master of Ceremony for the troop campfire was Hunter Ginavan who got the campfire started with a song and we were off with each patrol performing a skit and a song. We closed our troop campfire with retiring 114 America Flags that had performed their duties very well. The troop and parents who came out enjoyed the flag retiring ceremony very much.

It was now time to go to bed and our company for the night was yes a nice thunderstorm who announced it present multiple times during the night. It rained the entire night. It was still raining on Sunday morning when everyone got up and yes everyone had to build a fire once again with wet wood. Luckily one patrol had put some wood under cover and kept it dry. Other patrol had a little trouble as they were not prepared. They had no dry wood. It was still raining as breakfast was fixed and finished. Then all of a sudden the rain stopped and we had about 20 minutes of sunshine this was great. As fast as it came the sun went away and we heard that another storm was coming so all the patrol started breaking camp and backing up.

Once camp was packed up and our leave no trace trash line up was complete the troop had a church service. The sermon for church was on Noah and the ark we thought this was fitting with all the rain. The sermon was how the ark was similar to our patrols in the troop and how we all should work together to get our big task and goals done.

The bus ride home was load and fun as usual. Even with all the rain and cold the overnight was FUN and I hope everyone is looking forward to the Troop’s October overnight on the 8 and 9.

As your Troop Scribe I am challenging all Patrol Scribes to submit an article on the September overnight.

Blue and Grey Park Overnight

By Simon Englehart Patrol Scribe

I really liked the Blue and Grey Park overnight because I got to help put a fire together and I got to help my patrol cook. My patrol helped my tent partner and me put together our tent and take it down. I also got to eat really good meals.

Blue and Grey Park Overnight

By Gabriel Englehart Patrol Scribe

Blue and Grey Park is a very familiar scene, I would know, I’ve been multiple times. Our food was pretty good, since I’m familiar with the food too. Most tents were well built and durable. Sure a few leaks where I was, but all was well. Dishes and other jobs were fairly well done. Church was quick, but nice and assuring. Overall the familiar has yet to change and the new has not come yet, for the rain was upon us again.

(See more pictures from the September overnight in the Troop 282 Photo Collection.)