Monday, November 12, 2018

Tolt Macdonald campout

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From October 26 to October 28th a total of 19 scouts and 5 adults from troop 626 camped at Tolt Macdonald for two nights. While there Mr. Marring organized a wonderful orienteering course for the scouts giving them the opportunity to learn how to use a compass and map. On the second night heavy rain poured outside but luckily the troop came prepared and set up their rain covers the day before.

All in all everybody enjoyed the camp and was a great opportunity for scout skills to the younger scouts.
Group Photo of Scouts before departure
Scouts playing cards

Saturday, November 10, 2018

VFW Service Project

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Today, Troop 626 did a yard clean-up service project supervised by Grandpa Dan at the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars), up near Microsoft. The scouts raked leaves, swept, and generally cleaned up the grounds so it would look nice for the Veterans Day dinner. 

At the end of the day the VFW was kind enough to serve homemade pizza for the troop’s work.

The VFW building
The Troop hard at work
A Group Photo of the scouts



Sunday, August 19, 2018

50 Mile Hike in Olympics


From August 12th to August 18th, 6 scouts and adult leaders hiked 53.3 miles from Obstruction Point to Graves Creek. Although it was hazy due to the Maple Fire, we had nice weather and only one calamity, Peter's broken trekking pole.
Obstruction Point Trailhead 

Mt. Olympus from Lillian Ridge

William and Luc on Lillian Ridge

Peter in front of Moose Lake

Grand Pass
Camp along Cameron Creek
Cameron Pass

Jack at Lost Pass
Bear canisters were required in some areas

Jack taking a nap on Main Fork Dosewallips Trail
Last of our 4 passes....all downhill from here

Group picture on way to Enchanted Valley

Enchanted Valley

Happy faces after completing 53.3 miles

Monday, May 29, 2017

Memorial Day weekend backpacking trip

Over memorial day weekend the troop went on a 6.7 mile hike out to an old car-camping campground on the Dosewallips river in the Olympic national forest.










Alex Bowman Eagle scout project

Alex Bowman had his Eagle scout project recently to improve a walking trail near his home in Newcastle, we removed plants, rocks, made a new trail to a lookout and widened the existing trail.












Mt. Si Hike

We had a great hike over the weekend to Mount Si near North Bend as a preparation for the Memorial Day backpacking trip.


Monday, May 1, 2017

Camporee 2017

Over the weekend the troop went to Camp Edwards for a few nights of fun, games and scout skills.