Troop 15 Scout Blog

The base camp experience at Tres Ritos Boy Scout Summer Camp this year was one of the best of my scouting career. We won the spirit stick the first day and although we didn't win it again I feel we continued to be the loudest and proudest. The boys did a wonderful job of listening and carrying out their jobs.

Our Tres Ritos Boy Scout Summer Camp "Pacos Packers" experience wasn't like some of the others, there was a lot more walking and a lot less talking. We got to enjoy more of New Mexico than the other boys on a week long hike on a trail called pecos packers. The one we went on was a 38 mile hike through the glorious mountain ranges.

On Monday we set out from the Tres Ritos Boy Scout Summer Camp base area on our 45 mile "Pacos Packers" hike. The next day, we climbed up a mountain to see the breathtaking view that was the Santa Barbara Divide, after a nearly a two hour break for lunch we worked our way down the mountain to Pecos Falls for the night. After a chilly night, we went on a day hike which was cut short by some summer rain and sleet.

The Troop 15 (Yea!) boy scout winter camp at Camp Tres Ritos this year was the best and the coldest by far. Once we got there the cold mountain air hit us and we unpacked. We were surprised by the height of the snow, which was to our thigh and it was nearly impossible to walk through.

Somewhere over New Brunswick. Our itinerary fortuitously saved the best for last. The rain couldn't spoil the goodwill that was evident...

At the beginning of our trip, en route to Paris, Dave Thompson loaned me the book, The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan's famous account of the D-Day...

By and according to Shaun J. This is day 11 and the day that the Jamboree started. We left Copenhagen and the trip there was long and...

After waking up at 4:00am We took a 1 and a half hour flight to Copenhagen. We then met our guide for the day and our charter bus...

We got our first big glimpse of the international reach of scouting when we arrived at the Copenhagen airport. We...

Today we woke up to a glorious morning with sore backs. I was the first to...

AS usual we got up Very early, boarded a bus...wait, I mean a coach ( sorry Brendon). We headed the English countryside on ...

Check out some of the 100's of pictures our 2011 World Jamboree travelers have sent back on our Troop15 website at...

This morning we got up later than usual to go to a "coach" (bus) tour. We had a special tour guide that was really enthusiastic. We were dropped off...

Early this morning, we took the Chunnel from Paris to London. We checked into our hotel at around 11 a.m., then we had lunch. Most of us ate fish and chips.

Today we visited Disneyland Paris. We rode rides from Space Mountain to Indiana Jones Adventure. We stayed till 10:00 o'clock at...

Today we went to the Normandy American cemetery and went to Omaha beach ( on the coast line) it was both happy and moving to see the...

PICTURES ADDED   I'm not sure how much the boys really know about WWII and the events that transpired, but I'm certain they were in awe at the...

Today felt like it would never end! From biking around paris to walking around the Eiffel tower, our day was non-stop. After breakfast we jump on the...

We just completed everyone's favorite part of the trip so far, our Fat Tire bike tour of Paris. Our tour guide, who was a scout from Troop 98 in...

Bon Jour! Today was a wonderfully exciting day so full of activity I can’t begin to describe. It is very late here, & I’ve put out the last of the little “fires” and...

PHOTOS ADDED!  I will tell the truth, and nothing but the truth. Well, my truth. There are good things about Paris, which are pro, and bad things....

Just a quick update. We're preparing to board our plane in Atlanta bound for Paris. Here in Atlanta, we ran into a huge group of scouts from Mexico on....

On July 18th, Troop 15 will embark on an incredible journey to the World Scout Jamobree in Rinkaby, Sweden.  Along the way, we'll be making...

Just this last weekend we attended camp Lexington near Norman Oklahoma. Saturday the scouts arose to fix breakfasts consisting of every thing from pancakes to ...

This year on Martin Luther king Jr. Weekend, we attended tres ridos scout camp in the mountains of New Mexico. Many of the scouts built....

This is what happened at Trappers. Before I get started let this blog tell you what Trappers is about. Trappers is a camp in Newton, Kansas where....

This blog is about the Galveston, Texas winter camp. From the long drive from Oklahoma City to Galveston, Texas it was long. The views were great and.....

The campout was very windy with teaspoon of chilly weather. The cool thing was the webelos came to camp out with us. They were full of spirit and excitement from the start...

Octoberfest happens once a year and allows Webelos to meet Boy Scouts and Scoutmasters from various Troops around our District...

Being our October campout, it was a very spooky and mysterious campout with ghost stories being told here and there...

This last week was summer camp down in northern Texas at a BSA aquatic camp, Camp Constantine. The weather was like 100 degrees, but luckily we...

Our Troop went on Family Camp last weekend at the Pawnee Bathhouse in northeastern Oklahoma. Since Family Camp last year at the Pawnee Bathhouse was such a success...

Our April campout was at the Great Salt Plains in Northern Oklahoma. We had lots of fun camping at the Great Salt Plains State Park, and digging for salt (Selenite) crystals on...

Our March camp-out, which was at Camp Kickapoo, was very fun.  The most annoying, but one of the most awesome parts there, was...

For my last blog as troop scribe, I will be talking about the summer camp that we went on in July to Tres Ritos, New Mexico for about a week. On our way there...

On our most recent campout we toured the Price Tower in Bartlesville. It was very interesting, as it was all about triangles..... oh and it was built like a tree. We also toured a wildlife refuge called Whoolaroc...

We went out to Sasakawa Scout Camp to do a hike. The main purpose of the campout was to prepare for summer camp at Tres Ritos, New Mexico, where we will be hiking miles and miles at ten thousand feet ... I think...

For our campout in April, we went to Camp Kickapoo to instruct webelos on orienteering. We usually make up a story to go along with it, although.....