Report - Woodcut Campout

This month we went up to the Mt. Hood area again to participate in the woodcut, giving us the ability to stay at the Nanich Lodge in the spring. Most of our youth had conflicting schedules, and so we only had 3 scouts and 2 older varsity scouts.

We stayed at Tollgate campground, which was only a few miles from where we had the woodcut. The campsite was right by the river, and very secluded. The boys did a great job of starting a fire with just a small sheet of paper and a lot of wood. They also worked on some wood-cutting skills getting more firewood than we could burn.

Once it got dark, we found out that there were daddy-long-legs all over our campground. A few boys even had to kill a few dozen that snuck into their open tent.

Everyone got lots of sleep and we got to the woodcut just in time in the morning. There was a lot of wood being cut by the adult leaders, and the boys formed long lines to carry and stack the wood. We stacked for about 4 hours, and then got to register for the weekend that we'll stay at the lodge next spring (March 12-13th, 2010).

We had planned to stop and ride the Alpine Slide at Ski Bowl on the way home, but it sprinkled most of the morning, and it was closed fro being wet, so we'll have to postpone that until next year's woodcut.