Troop 651's

BSA Today
On-line edition	February 1999

TRAINING BACKPACK AT DOS CABEZAS

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Eight Scouts headed out in December for our annual training backpack. The hike started at the old Dos Cabezas railroad siding ruins and wanders past many relics from the construction of the San Diego & Arizona Railroad.
Among the places visited were a couple of old railroad camps, one with a dugout house and another made of blasting powder cans. A short side trip led to one of the railroad tunnels.
After five miles of backpacking we arrived at the cave we called camp. In spite of the hike we learned that a Scout is never too tired to climb rocks and there were plenty to climb.
Around the corner from camp were some fantastic Indian pictographs.
After a small campfire the guys crawled under the rock (cave) to sleep.
We hope to have several more backpacks this year. These will be by invitation to those who participated in the training hike or have shown experience on prior troop backpacks.

CAMPOUT AT LITTLE BLAIR VALLEY

Five Webelos from Pack 662 joined us in January for our campout in the high desert. We hiked to another set of Indian paintings and then on to Smuggler Canyon for an interesting view of the desert. Our pioneering skills came in use when we lashed a couple of tripods to make a frame for one of the Webelos families who forgot their tent poles!

THE TROOP 651 WEB PAGE HAS MOVED

Please come visit us at www.oocities.org/Yosemite/Meadows/4651

We also have our own email address which can be found on the web site.

Troop members (only) please read: If you are on-line please send us an letting us know you visited. We can then let you know when the page is updated if you want. Our on-line newsletters have the same things as the ones you get now, but they also have COLOR PICTURES of some of our campouts. If you want to contribute then email your articles or pictures to us. We also have set up a message bulletin board where ou can talk about different topics. It could also be used for an on-line patrol meeting! This is only available to those who receive an email invitation so we are cyber-safe. It also gives us a private list of our Scouts and leaders email addresses. Send us an email if you want an invitation.

CALENDAR [Annual Calendar here]

Mar 19-21	Salty Rat
Apr 4-11	International Camporee in Mexico
May 8	Boy Scout Fair
May 21-23	Palomar Observatory (Tour, Telescopes, and Tents)
Jun 27-Jul 4	Mataguay Summer Camp

AN APOLOGY

I am sorry for not putting out a newsletter for a long time. I got caught up in other things and didn't have time to do it. I would also like to thank Mr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Scheunemann for the stuff they sent me for this newsletter. --Eric

Articles by: Mr. Jeffrey
Edited and typed by: Eric
If you like to see an article in the newsletter send me an email.