Many Point 2010 - Two Weeks and Counting

It seems hard to believe that it is only two weeks until Many Point! I know I can hardly wait.

Actually, I didn't wait....

The first weekend in June was the annual Many Point Work Weekend, and I went up to Many Point to help work on projects to get the camp ready for Scouts.

I helped to build a new Trading Post for Ten Chiefs, while other people fixed up the Voyager Lodge & Trading Posts, and other people built new Radio Stations for the Radio Merit badge class.

While I was there, I decided to walk down to the Fort William and Two Harbors campsites where we will be staying. (You can click on these pictures to view them larger).

It is always weird to see the sites in the spring, before they have been mowed or trampled by Scouts.The road into the site is familiar, but strange. No cars, no tents, no Scouts; just long grass blowing in the breeze.

This year, leadership has decided that the Scoutmaster, Advancement, and Medical tents (and adults) will be staying in the big field in front of Two Harbors, so the old main assembly area should be devoid of tents this year.

This is a view of the Leadership area, as viewed from the Leadership dining tarp. You can see the outhouse in the background (in the center of the picture).

The majority of the adults (other than SM, Adv., & Medical) will be staying at the campsites down the path to the back right of this picture. They will be down near the lake, where the Second Year Scouts stayed last year.


This is the Leadership area as seen coming from the small fire ring.

Here is the small fire ring, just waiting for us to come to sing songs (anyone for the sock song?) and tell stories.

Leadership has decided that the Second Year Scouts will be staying in the small fire ring area this year.

The First Year Scouts will be staying in the campsite between this campsite and the lake.

The open field leading to Two Harbors is just long grass, with a scar that shows where our Troop campfires will be.

The Scoutmaster, Advancement, and Medical tents will be here, and I believe we will be having our troop assemblies here.

The Junior Leadership and Third Year Scouts will be staying in Two Harbors, beyond this field and down by the lake.