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| While summer is fewer Den meetings, the scouts have lots of great activities to get out and see our state. For starters, Den 1&5 had a camp trip to Tuttletown campground on New Melones Lake. |
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| I took many of the kids on a hike from our campsite down to the lake. With the drought in full effect, the water was really low and left for extra hiking to get to any actual water. |
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| Lots of exposed shoreline |
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| Here's Mike Herbert helping the scouts learn parts of the traveler activity pin. |
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| While camping, we took a break and explored the local railroad museum and took a ride on the train. |
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| Nate getting a little silly with Jackson. |
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| The kids are running around the train, looking at an actual working steam engine. |
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| A better shot of the steam engine working. |
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| At mid-day we went to the town of Murphy's and played in the river that runs through the town. The kids had a blast swimming while the adults took part in a little festival going on and ate a picnic lunch. |
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| After lunch, we moved on to Moaning Cavern. Got a great tour of the cavern. |
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| The big spiral staircase was as big of an attraction in the early days as the cavern was, an early engineering marvel. |
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| After exploring the cavern, time for a little gold panning. |
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| In this case, the gold panning, was more arrowhead panning. We bough a bag of dirt with arrowheads in it and you go through the same process to find your treasure. |
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| This was the first year we skipped out on Resident camp, up in Lassen and instead took part in Twilight camp. |
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| Here's the boys launching rockets, made from 2L soda bottles, filled with water and launched with air into the sky. |
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| The camp theme was medieval times. Next year it's Dr. Who, Nate can't wait to go back. |
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| Lots of activities to help advance the Webelos Badge. Here's he's making a puzzle picture frame. |
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| Archery is of course Nate's favorite |
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| We also joined the scouts at the Rivercats game. |
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| Always a spectacular place to watch a game. |
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| Another packed summer, with lots of scouting activities built in. Can't wait for next year to continue the fun. |
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