January 17, 2016

Post date: Jan 17, 2016 6:23:47 PM

Hello Troop 737,

GO BRONCOS!!

Monday night will be doing scout skills and prepping for the Patrol Olympics which will be held sometime next month. Come learn or practice your scout skills so you and your patrol mates can excel at the upcoming Patrol Olympics.

The Winter Blast will be January 23 and 24 at Snow Mountain Ranch, the YMCA camp up in Grand County. We will be tubing, swimming, roller skating and cross country skiing. See below for more information. Thanks to Michael Force and Pete Schiffers, we are trying our new electronic sign up and payment system for the first time. Please see the information below or Pete Schiffers earlier emails. We only have a total of 12 spots, including adults, so sign up early. We are currently full but if we get more people to sign up we will look into getting another room. As of Friday there were more rooms available.

Winter camp training is not needed for the Winter Blast but it is needed for Klondike. We will be doing another winter camp training sometime in the next few weeks for those people who were note able to attend in the past. I will send out an email to see when will work best for everyone who wants to attend.

Upcoming signup deadlines

January 18^th for Winter Blast, January 23 – 24 See electric signup info below.

Scoutmaster Minute Review

PLC, no SM minute

Here is a list of upcoming events:

You can always check out the full schedule on the Troop website at: https://sites.google.com/a/themountaintroop.org/troop-737-home/troop-calendar

January 18 Troop Meeting 6:30 – 8pm ELC Service patrol is the Spartans. Please show up 15 minutes early to help set up. Scout skills and prepping for the Patrol Olympics which will be held sometime next month. Come learn or practice your scout skills so you and your patrol mates can excel at the upcoming Patrol Olympics

January 22 - 24 Winter Blast at Snow Mountain Ranch Leave ELC at 10 AM. Spend the time tubing, cross country skiing and all the activities available at the Camp. Back before dinner on Sunday.

January 25 Troop Meeting 6:30 – 8pm ELC Service patrol is the Spartans. Please show up 15 minutes early to help set up. Advancement night. We will be offering Cooking and Personal Management merit badges. Scouts need to understand that you will need to do quite a bit of work outside of our regular meeting to earn either of these merit badges. Please remember to print out the worksheets for the merit badge that you choose to work on. Here are the links: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/8/87/Cooking.pdf http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/f/fa/Personal_Management.pdf

We also encourage scouts who need to wrap up a merit badge that they have started at another time to call up a merit badge counselor and meet with them at this time. There is a list of merit badge counselors on the website. A list will also be available at the meeting.

February 1, 2016 Patrol Leaders Council (PLC) meeting 6:30 – 8pm ELC If you are a Patrol Leader or in a troop leadership position please come and help plan the upcoming Troop activities. If you are a Patrol Leader and you cannot make it to this meeting you need to talk to your assistant Patrol Leader or someone in your Patrol so that all Patrols are represented at the PLC

February 26 -28 Klondike Come experience this fun Timberline district event.

March 11 -13 Nebraska Sand Hill Crane Trip Come experience one of nature’s truly amazing events when thousands of cranes congregate in one area during their yearly migration. This is a family trip so bring the whole family.

Hello Troop 737! Why wait to sign up for our Winter Blast event until our next full meeting when you can sign up online right now??!!

We've gotten a good amount of interest in our "Winter Blast" event scheduled for 1/23 & 1/24 up at Snow Mountain Ranch! Again, we'll be tubing, swimming, cross country skiing (or snow shoeing), and generally having a blast! So far we've got one of the two cabins that we'd originally reserved full and we hope to have to reserve several more cabins! Each cabin can sleep 6 scouts (5 beds and one scout on the floor) so, time is of the essence if you're wanting to go as registration ends on Monday night, 1/18/16 after our scout meeting!

The cost per scout (or adult) is $56 each and this includes your bed, three meals (dinner on 1/23, and breakfast & lunch on 1/24), and access to all of the free activities available at the ranch. Cross-country ski or snow shoe rentals will be an additional charge-unless you bring your own equipment- and rentals will cost $17/scout 12 years and older (or adults) . We also suggest each attendee bring $20 for meals or snacks on the way up to Granby and back (figure $100/attendee bottom line to be safe).

SIGN UP INSTRUCTIONS: (ALL SCOUTS MUST HAVE THEIR PARENTS PERMISSION TO ATTEND!!)

- Please go to: http://mountaintroop737.mytroop.us/node/1008 to access our Troop 737's Members Only page.

- You will then be directed to Login. To do so, hit the "Login" tab on the upper left hand side of the page.

- You will then be asked to enter your Username (which is "member") and Password (which is"camping737") then hit the "Log In" tab underneath.

- Then click on the "Register" button and type your scout's name in the "Scouts" box and then hit the "Select Name" box.

- This takes you to a listing of the scout and pre-registered family members where you select which members are attending by clicking the "yes" circle to the right of the attendee's name.

- This will take you to a confirmation page listing which of the scouts (and family members) have chosen to attend. Once reviewed, click on the "Add to Cart" button.

Note:

If you are going to pay Wendy Barber (our treasurer) with a check or, out of your scout account at our next regular meeting on 1/18 then you are done and just need to pay her that night to go.

Wendy will then advise me of your payment and we'll see that you are properly registered.

If you'd instead prefer to pay online you can follow the directions (below) and pay with either a personal credit card or through PayPal. No need to pay Wendy thereafter as you already did online!

- Hit the "View Cart" tab which shows a summary of attendees and directs you to "Checkout".

- This then takes you to the page where you can pay your scout/parental attendance dues either through PayPal or with a credit card

We're looking forward to seeing as many of you there as we can! The snow tubing, cafeteria, and heated pool are guaranteed to be just a few of the highlights! Not to mention, this would be a great opportunity to get a jump on your Winter Sports Merit Badge!

Service Hours Opportunities::Always wear Class B uniform or if appropriate Class A