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the Quartermaster’s closet

Posted: Monday, February 6th, 2012 @ 7:13 pm in Announcements, Trip Report | Comments Off

The cold and damp Saturday of January 21, 2012 sported the event of a colossal clean-out of the Quartermaster’s closet in Ames Hall.
All materials in the closet were removed, sorted through, cleaned thoroughly, then replaced in the newly-fashioned closet. There were several scouts present to help faithfully set up tent after tent. They sorted […]

Backpacking Trip – Camp Yawgoog

Posted: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 @ 5:03 pm in Announcements, Trip Report | Comments Off

Camp Yawgoog is a Boy Scout Reservation that hosts summer camps and rents out campsites. Camp Yawgoog includes three different camps as well as outlying campsites with a total of 1800 acres of land. The camp was founded in 1916 and is the fourth oldest continuously run scouting reservation in America. It is located near […]

Washburn Island Trip

Posted: Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 @ 2:03 pm in Announcements, Trip Report | Comments Off

On the weekend of September 17-18, 2011, members of Troop 61 Sudbury canoed off the shore of Cape Cod to Washburn Island, an uninhabited strip of land no more than two miles long. Before becoming a popular camping spot, the island had been used as a World War II landing site for the Army Amphibious […]