Usually sometime in late November or early December around here, things change. We go from the cool dry weather of fall to the cold weather of winter. This year, the weekend of December 1 and 2 marked the arrival of the cold - with snow to follow on Sunday night. When this happens, most people try to finish raking their leaves up, snuggle in by a fire, and watch football. Not Joshua and John…
They decided to go camping with the Boy Scouts. Yup, camping. In a tent.
Twelve of Troop 750’s Scouts and three “adult” leaders hiked into the woods of Andover’s Ward Reservation for Saturday night. There they built a fire to stave off some of the cold, cooked dinner on backpacking stoves or the coals, spent a chilly night that reached an official low of 15F but was locally measured into the single digits, rose for breakfast, and hiked out again with everyone and most everything they took in. And they had fun!!! Yah boy!!!
You guys are hard core! Good pictures!
That beats the time we went camping in February for the Klondike Derby, earned our Winter Campout badge (it was still Winter) and the temperature went to 78 on Saturday! Carrying those slides around was a bitch!
Way to tough it out! Hint: When camping in December use the Hilton!
Charlie
Talk’n ’bout a nut… this one drags a herd of little kids into the freezer with him!