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Summer Means Troop 5 ‘Bivouac’ at Camp Massawipie
By Peter D. Bright and early in the morning, we set off to upstate New York to the beautiful Massawipie Scout Camp for the two-week long Troop 5 summer camp. After 6 long hours of the bus snaking, Scouts watching movies, and waiting, we made it and quickly claimed our tent spots for the next…
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Troop 5 Olympics at ‘Camp Tabora,’ Visit to Observatory
By Peter D. At the end of May, we left around 7 p.m. as usual. About 45 minutes later, we arrived and set up camp at ‘Camp Tabora,’ a campsite owned by a longtime Troop 5 Assistant Scout Master. We slept and got up at around 7 a.m. We all had a non-cooking breakfast, worked…
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Riding the Waves, Seeing the Caribbean at Troop 5’s Spring Break Virgin Islands Return
By Peter D. Early on a Friday in late March we hoped on a plane to St. Thomas, a part of the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands. About four hours later we arrived. Then we took a taxi to a ferry to St. John, another of the U.S. Virgin Islands, home of the U.S.…
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Going Up To, And Coming Down Mohawk Mountain
By Sam D. On a cold Friday night, Troop 5 departed to the slopes of Mohawk Mountain, in Cornwall, Connecticut. About 20 Scouts signed up for skiing, snowboarding and snowtubing. When we arrived in our isolated cabin at the Strang Scout Reservation, we prepared for the next day. At the cabin were bunks with mattresses.…
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Troop 5 Tackles the Klondike (Derby, That Is)
By Keegan B. One of the big yearly events that happen in February for Boy Scouts is the Klondike Derby. For Troop 5, it’s the Northern New Jersey Council’s Lenape Trail Klondike Derby, held at the South Mountain Reservation. It is a competition between Troop and Troop, Patrol and Patrol, as well as Scout and…
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Cooking Competition 2024
By Andrew K. Troop 5 had a great time at its annual Cooking Competition in late January, with the Scouts overnighting at Camp Munsee. Departure for the trip was delayed because of snow being forecast, but the Troop managed to get to work shortly after arriving at the camp on Saturday morning instead of Friday…
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