Boy Scout Troop 28 Cuyahoga Heights, OH

Countdown to Summer Camp 2009

Summer Camp 2009 at Seven Ranges Scout Reservation

This year Troop 28 will be attending a different summer camp. The troop will be heading south east to Kensington, OH. Kensington is home to Seven Ranges Scout Reservation. This year we will be traveling to camp on Sunday June 14, 2009 and returning on Saturday June 20, 2009.

Summer Camp is an important tool for advancement in our troop and I encourage everyone to attend. The price for camp this year is $250.00. Although this price seems steep the experience your boys will gain will be priceless. There is a $30.00 discount if you pay $100 by March 15^th and you are paid in full by April 20^th. Click here for payment schedule.

The Summer Camp Program at Seven Ranges is designed to provide the adventure, fun and activities that are promised to every boy that joins Scouting. While at camp, Scouts have the opportunity to put into action the skills that they have practiced year-round within our unit program.

Seven Ranges Scout Reservation is operated by the Buckeye Council, Inc., Boy Scouts of America. It is located in Northern Carroll County, and encompasses nearly 900 acres of rolling hills, woods, meadows, lakes and ponds. "Reservation" is the proper term used to describe a large tract of land that has multiple camping facilities. On our Seven Ranges Scout Reservation, we have Camp Algonkin, Camp Calumet, Camp Akela, and many other activity areas.

Camp Algonkin is the largest camp. It has 24 campsites, including one especially designed for Scouts with special needs. Each campsite is next to a modern outdoor latrine and covered washstand. There are modern hot water showers located near the campsites. Camp Algonkin has a beautiful dining hall and kitchen facility. The Deaver Administration Building has a complete first-aid facility, and the woodland lodges that house the I. W. Delp Ecology Center and Handicraft Departments can be used for winter camping. The camp also has a Rifle and Archery Range, Scoutcraft Area, and Aquatics Area on a 40 plus acre lake for swimming, boating and fishing

Pipestone Camp Honor

The Buckeye Council's Pipestone Award is unique in Scouting. For seventy years Scouts of our council camps have earned the right to wear this venerable token. To this very day the Pipestone comes to us through our brother, the Indian, in a spot which he and his ancestors hallow in far away Minnesota. It is brought to the earth by his hands alone. No where else can it be earned, other than at Seven Ranges Scout Reservation. The Scouts who wear the Pipestone, prize it highly. Its spirit pervades our camp and program.

Pipestone is not a required program. It is offered, as part of the overall Summer Camp Program, to be utilized by the Scout if he so desires. Any coercion to participate is detrimental to its values. Coercion and peer pressure are not necessary to make the program function. The requirements have been structured so as to appeal to the Scouts strictly on their own merits. It is something that should attract and interest the majority of Scouts and, at the same time, be consistent with current Scouting advancement. Therefore, Scouts who work to earn the five years of Pipestone are also being encouraged toward orderly advancement in rank.

Unit leaders should make sure that each member of the unit understands the Camp Honor requirements and is given the opportunity to participate.

Early on Monday, Scouts begin the adventure of qualifying to sit in the Council Ring of the Honor Camper. On Friday evening, those who qualify climax the adventure. Finally, those who achieve the Fifth Year Camp Honor become members of the camping alumni who are devoted to the ideals for which Pipestone stands and to the Buckeye Council Camp Program.

All Pipestone requirements must be completed by 12:00 noon on Friday.

Only one year's Honor may be earned each year and only one attempt may be made each summer.