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| This month's campout was to Camp Big Timber in Elgin, Illinois. We camped in the "tepees" just as we did in November of last year. There was a light drizzle as we left the church on Friday night and the forecast was not promising, but we had pleasant weather and temperatures. | |
| Brayden, Scott and Rob at the fire. We had a great cooking fire with lots of wonderful split oak firewood! |
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| Scott, Brayden and Derek. |
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| Scott feeds the fire. |
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| Cameron is confused by his sleeping pad. |
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| OK, no more sugar for you! |
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| Bill. |
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| The beginnings of a delicious one pot meal. I'm not sure if it was a stew or not, and I know it could never be duplicated (who puts ramen noodles in stew?) but it was warm and delicious. |
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| Lots of love. |
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| Who appears to be doing most of the work? |
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| Cameron and Jason. |
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| Chris and Jason. More love. |
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| Scoutmaster Don. |
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| I have too many pictures of Chris eating. |
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| Soon to be a dutch oven treat. |
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| Rob. |
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| Jason and Brayden. |
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| It was painful watching Chris attempt to open a can of cherries with my swiss army knife. Remember the IKEA lamp commercial? That lamp would have wept for this can! |
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| Oil the sides of the dutch oven. |
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| Wise scoutmaster. |
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| Very capable assistant scoutmaster with a dutch oven delight. |
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| Jason hits the sack early. |
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| Chris likes to split wood. |
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| Derek, Jason and Brayden watch the morning fire, which contains my metal cup for my requisite cup(s) of hot chocolate. |
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| Apparently Cameron never did figure out what to do with that sleeping pad. |
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| Jason fries up the bacon. |
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| Scott finds it necessary to instruct Chris on the finer points of how to use a spoon so the pancake batter isn't so lumpy. |
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| Not a morning person. |
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| Derek. |
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| Jason and Brayden. |
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| Chris and Derek. |
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| Jason. |
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| Still not awake. |
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| Scott fries up some donuts. |
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| The donuts cook quickly. Remove from dutch oven and roll in powdered sugar. A slightly messy but oh-so-yummy delight. |
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| Just like last year, the tepees provided a diversion. Trying to throw something - anything - even a bottle of Gatorade - through the hole in the top. |
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| On one successful throw the Gatorage bottle stayed up on the top. Will it be there next time we're here? |
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| LEarning the order of the compass points. |
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| Compass points. |
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| Derek sees the points of the compass while Chris thinks he sees a full house. |
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| A short hike around the camp. |
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| Take 5 boys, add water and rocks. Serve up some fun. |
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| The biggest splash...a timeless tradition. |
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| Here we go...! |
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| Leaders look on, each one thinking to himself "that kid's not riding home in my car with those shoes!" |
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| Gotcha! |
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| Troop 5. Good people. |
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