2001 Spring Advancement Camporee
	La Pine State Park, 4-6 May 2001

Last updated 8 May 2001.

• Event Recap
• Pictures
• Activities
• Service Project
• Reference Flyers / Information

Event Recap

Wow! What a great turnout for the Spring Advancement Camporee! 218 people from a dozen units. The weather was great, the skill stations were tremendous, and scouts on the Trail to First Class had the opportunity to knock out lots and lots of advancement.

There was participation by local agencies, including the Oregon State Police, Deschutes County Search and Rescue, and the BLM. We also received great coverage from the local paper, The Bulletin. They were very moved by the way in which the older scouts were acting as mentors for the younger scouts. They noted that "although it takes a village to raise a child, these youth are showing us the right way to go about it".

Nathan Rogers and Brett Finneran from Troop 21 also laid their traps and caught 49 crayfish, treating their patrol to a cajun style crawdad boil Saturday night.

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Pictures

	Kevin Brown and Ben Schwarz lash the framework to hold the troop banner.
	The Troop 21 site starts to take shape. A nice grassy area on the river bank surrounded by Ponderosa.
	Looking back along the river bank at the other campsites.
	The Troop 723 (National Jamboree Troop 2001) campsite.
	John McIntosh of Troop 27, Redmond, showing scouts and parents how to determine directions without a compass. Here he is teaching the use of shadow sticks to determine an east / west meridian.
	Gary Thompson of Troop 53, Powell Butte and several of the troop parents, who are also affiliated with the Bureau of Land Management, Prineville District, put together a great Plant Identification station.
	Bill Anderson ASM, Dudley Ruppel ASM, Matt Bowe and Brett "Crawdad King" Finneran of Troop 21, Bend, awaiting visitors at the mile long orienteering course.
	Molly McCallum and Randy Sergent of Deschutes County Search and Rescue came down Saturday morning to present a great skill station on hiking and outdoor safety, what to do if you find yourself lost, and how to perform water rescues.
	Dan Bisset SM of Troop 18, Bend, and his scouts put on great Knife and Axe Safety station. Many young scouts earned the Tot N' Chip at this station.
	Stan Taggart ASM of Troop 21, Bend, put on a superb cooking gear, outdoor cooking fires, and food handling safety station. Here some scouts look over the variety of lightweight camping stoves available.
	Here the scouts learn how to build several above-ground cooking fires using Leave No Trace Principles.
	Dan Hogrefe ASM, and Nathan "Crawdad King" Rogers put on a great station to teach the First Aid Hurry Cases and CPR. Here Nathan takes a group of young scouts through the principles of CPR using some "Annies" loaned to us from the Oregon State Police.
	Vivian from Troop 18 took the scouts through some common sense approaches to safety, preventative health, and basic first aid.
	Troop 18 also led the station for basic lashings and making useful camp gadgets. Here, a scout learns how to make a tripod using a (you guessed it) tripod lashing.
	Some finished tripods.
	Peggy Whitney and the crew from Pack 69 taught scouts how to properly make bandages for head, ankle, forearm, shoulder, and collarbone injuries. They also taught the boys how to make emergency splints out of objects like sticks, magazines, and such.
	Trooper John Katzenstein of the Oregon State Police Game Enforcement Division put on a great station for Animal Identification. They brough all sorts of pelts and prints from a variety of animals commonly found in Oregon, from beavers to bighorn sheep.
	Bill takes a break. He earned it.
	The guys from Troop 723, the group going to National Jamboree, teach young scouts how to properly whip and fuse the ends of a rope to keep the end from unravelling.
	Dan reviews the steps of CPR with an visiting parent. You're never too old to take advantage of the basic skills that were taught this weekend.
	Some visiting Webelos and their parents learn the basics of using a compass. Here, they learn how to set a direction of travel on the circular course.
	The guys from Troop 21 also ran a station teaching basic knots. Here they whip out another tripod. Tripods are very popular due to their use for cooking, weather rocks, etc..
	Search and Rescue teaching some Webelos how to throw a rescue line accurately up to 50 feet.
	Checking up on that shadow stick after a few hours to see if the shadow is prominent enough to be used as a meridian line yet.
	Webelos and parents learning about the various camp stoves.

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Activities

This year's Spring Camporee featured a focus on Advancement. March and April traditionally see a large number of Webelos Scouts cross over into Boy Scout troops. One of the most important goals for a troop is to provide these new Scouts with immediate opportunities for outdoor activity and advancement. Anything we can do to help these new Scouts 'hit the ground running' will work to ensure their continued participation in Scouting.

Advancment Skill Stations

Each Troop was asked to select an advancement related skill (see matrix below) and to provide one adult and two older (First Class or above) Scouts to act as staff for that station. New Scouts and Scouts on the Trail to First Class had the opportunity to make the rounds of the various stations, learning new skills, and being signed off on rank requirements in the process.

Competition

As opposed to traditional inter-troop / inter-patrol competition, participants were asked to judge the skill stations on several factors also will had the opportunity to compete in an orienteering course, and each troop competed in a model campsite competition. All paid attending units will received ribbons for participation.

Ceremonies

The Order of the Arrow, Lo La Qam Geela chapter, was a great help with the ceremonies. Saturday night, new scouts were taken on the Trail of Promises. Later in the evening, newly elected candidates to the Order of the Arrow were tapped out in preparation for their Ordeal in June. The troops all pitched in with songs, skits, and jokes to make the Saturday night campfire fun. Sunday morning, John Taylor and Jim Fuller of La Pine led the devotional services. Our thanks to them. And finally, special kudos to the guys from Troop 82, Sunriver, who did all the flag ceremonies and ran the skill station teaching flag handling to the younger scouts.

Recap of Skill Stations

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Important Service Project

The La Pine Parks and Recreation District has generously allowed the Fremont District to have use of La Pine State Park Day Use Area for this camporee at no charge. However, they have asked that the units of the Fremont District provide an in-kind service project to assist in cleanup of the Day Use Area prior to our event and prior to the opening of general season.

The Clean-up Service Project for La Pine State Park Day Use Area took place on the prior Saturday, April 28. Our thanks to the 37 scouts, scouters and parents who came down from Troop 21, Troop 27, and the District Staff to pitch in. The rangers said we saved them over a month of work in preparing the site for use this season.

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Download Flyers / Information

Archive of flyers and information

• April Final Flyer - Cover Letter to Unit Leaders
• Event Handout and Map
• April 28 Service Project Handout
• Unit Registration Form
• Skill Stations Reference
• Camporee Schedule
• Event Timeline
• March Roundtable Flyer
• February Preliminary Flyer

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