What a splendid week. Thirty-six merit badges started, twenty-five completed with several more partials from last year completed during free time.
On top of the merit badge activities we managed to go caving, climbing on the rock tower, swim, and participate in many of the camp wide activities. Troop 4 also managed to fit in some time for a Read service project helping to keep the beach clean at the waterfront.
We managed an archery competition during siesta against Troop 1 Mount Kisco, competed in the Quadrathlon (rock climbing, archery, running, and swimming), and the Staph hunt.
It's amazing the Scouts found time to keep the campsite up and cook all their meals but they did. Not only were they terrific cooks but for the first time ever at Read they managed to cook and clean all their meals quickly and efficiently and had tons of extra time because of it.
Almost every morning the Troop was fed and cleaned up with an hour to go before the start of the day. The decreased levels of stress for the adults associated with not having to push or rush the scouts so they didn't miss the start of the day or evening activities can't be overstated.
For the complete photo record of our time at Camp Read please check out out photo album at:
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