If you live in the Houston area and you aren’t packing your gear to camp this weekend, you need to check out the weather. If everything holds steady, the low will be 58 and the high 82 on both Saturday and Sunday with little chance of rain. You just can’t custom order a weekend much better than that for camping.
I, along with a couple of other leaders in our troop, will be finishing up the ASM/BSM outdoor leader training. There is a unique opportunity for me in that I’ll also be pitching in during my down times with training Webelos leaders. It’s really interesting to think back on our Cub Scout days and how much we thought we needed on a campout. Things sure change and it will be my honor to help introduce them the differences.
This will be a perfect opportunity to camp under the stars. That’s right. No tent! All this gal needs is a cot, air mattress, and a backpack with my water and a change of clothes. Well, and some bug spray of course because it’s mosquito city in the woods. One thing I won’t worry about is food. I learned a long time ago that the training sessions with outdoor cooking demos are the best place to be at meal time because they pull out all the stops. YUM!
LOL. I also discovered the camp cooking training is the best way to get fed. It’s the best deal at any training session.