Troop 603 Blog

Well here we are at the end of our journey. Our last night here at summer camp in 2008 and we had an awesome time. Seems like time flew – and early tomorrow we’ll all say goodbye until September. I’m sitting here again in the cool admin building next to my friend Mr Sharkey as [...]

MADE YOU LOOK! BWA HA HA HA HA! Attention Mr and Mrs America and all the ships at sea! Flash – Our Boys have made it past the hardest point in their tour of duties. Wow! always wanted to do something like that. I have felt like a reporter in the field putting words to [...]

OK – I’m tired. Here it is 23 hours since my last post and another day gone by (at least almost – there is still the troop swim at 10pm) For a select few of the boys this will also be an economical use of water because it will also double as a shower. Don’t [...]

WHAT A DAY!!! yeah – I know, you all expect me to talk about how positive everything is here and that nothing could possibly go wrong here at Camp Henson. I could probably spin a web of language that would grab your attention and never let your eyes move from the screen, at least until [...]

Well… the title says it all. The time we prepared for over the past few months has paid off. The camp site is set, the boys are here and we’re all safe. It’s about 9:50p and the welcoming campfire has just ended. I am going to make this a short one today – but keep [...]

June 15, 2007 Everyone was awake at 3:00 AM.  The Scouts did a good job of packing their gear and cleaning up the church.  Good thing we up early, because Raymond, our shuttle driver, showed up 15 minutes early.  Smooth sailing up I-95.  Everyone made it through security with no problems.  We had breakfast at [...]

This blog is a diary of Troop 603′s trip to Florida Sea Base in 2007.  The trip participants were: Crew #1 Youth: Chris Boyle, Derek Brauneller, Andrew Carlson, Billy Draper, Erik Peterson Adults:  Sean Brauneller, Dan Carlson, Tom McCann Crew #2 Youth:  Justin Draper, Sean Hidinger, Matt O’Sullivan, Alex Sharkey, Josh Simmons Adults:  Scott Hidinger, [...]

Wharton State Forest Submitted by Kyle M. May 17th was troop 603’s first shakedown hike in preparation for the High Adventure trip to Philmont. The troop was broken into three crews, the Scorpions, the Billy D. crew, and the Roman crew. The hike on Saturday was originally only supposed to be 10 miles but due [...]

A few constants in 603 camping history –   1)  It will rain (regardless of the forecast) 2) Mr. D will have to call to make sure the directions he followed have gotten him lost 3) There will be 372 phone calls to Mr. McCann to remind him that this is cold and flu season and camping [...]

Ok – So it’s been a while since I’ve added to “A MOMENT WITH MR D” And, yes a few people have asked when I was going to put out a new entry… But given that the WWW has about 1 bazillion cruising members – I have a question – mainly because no-one has posted [...]