Troop 95 visits Killens Pond for geocaching

On the weekend of Nov. 11-13, Troop 95 went camping at Killens Pond State Park. The group arrived at the park around 8:30 p.m., Nov. 11, and had to set up camp in the dark.

After breakfast the Scouts sat around the campfire waiting for assistant scoutmaster and merit badge counselor Justin Cotter to assist with geocaching. Geocaching is going out walking with a GPS navigator to find a cache with of a variety of things in it. The rule is, finders leave something, take something, and sign the log book.

Scouts went to a variety of locations around the park. They found a kazoo, jumping rope, 26 cents, a picture of Cub Scout Pack 100 from Dover and a T-shirt, all in different caches around the park.

For dinner all the patrols had a cook-off without using any utensils except to prepare the food. In first place was the Raven Patrol with rotisserie chicken on a handmade spit. Tied for second place were the Firecrackers and Pedros. The Firecrackers had hamburgers and fried potatoes cooked in aluminum foil frying pan.  The Pedros patrol had hamburger squares with onion and baked potatoes.

In third place was the Cobra Patrol with homemade hamburgers with an ice cube in the middle for moistness, and mozzarella sticks. In fourth place was the Border Patrol having shish kabobs made with Italian sausage, onions, green peepers, tomatoes (but they forgot to marinate them) with baked red skin potatoes. Finally, in fifth place was the Chuck Norris Patrol with ham and baked potatoes.

Everyone had a great time and cleaned up dinner and had a campfire, and then most scouts headed out for one last game of commandos for the weekend. Sunday morning came and it was time to head home. Everyone had breakfast, packed up and headed back to Georgetown.