Boy
Scout Camporee:
Registration
Form - Due NLT 8/15/08
Reserve Merit Badge slots, Camporee T-Shirts & Cap Ordering
form - Orders for Caps and T-Shirts is closed but you can still
register.
Scoutmaster's
Camporee Planning Guide
Announcement
Flyer
Camporee
Schedule
Contests
and Awards:
Colonial/Dutch
Oven Recipes
Plans
Wooden Candle Lantern
Plans
Tin Can Candle Lantern
Campsite - Colonial Encampment theme
Map
Directions
- Click here
We will be camping in the field behind the J J Henry
House. See Site #4 on the Detailed
Park Map.
Partial
Merit Badge Opportunities - Badges that can be worked on
during this Camporee - Merit Badge Counselors available:
Other
Links:
Jacobsburg
Environment Education Center
The
Museum of the PA Longrifle
Jacobsburg
History and Facts
Morning
Call Article - Arming a Nation
Jacobsburg
Recreation Guide
The
Bushkill Creek Watershed
Biking
at Jacobsburg and Trail Map
Minsi
Trails Council
Contacts/Camporee
Task Force
Pictures
of Scouts Biking at Jacobsburg State Park
Jacobsburg
Camporee Patch
Jacobsburg
Weather
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Saturday's
Sessions:
Troops will start either the Activity session or
Historical session in the morning and then switch in the afternoon:
The
Activity Session (Select from these activities):
The
Historical Session - Sponsored by the Jacobsbury Historical Society:
- Colonial/pre-Civil
War encampment featuring colonial re-enactors sharing
their knowledge of history and colonial skills such as blacksmithing,
gun making, cooking, and colonial life. Experience colonial life
with the Henry families contributions to Pennsylvania's proud
heritage of early American rifle making.
- Pennsylvania
Long Rifle Museum
- Shoot
a black powdered rifle
- Tomahawk
and knife throwing
- Flint
and Steel fire-starting
- Cannon
Demo
- Colonial
Cooking Contest - 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place awards -
See sample recipies in left column.
- Campsite
Competion - 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place awards - See plans
for candel lanterns in left column (make them prior to camporee).
Jacobsburg
- Once the site where the famous Henry Rifle was made, the Jacobsburg
National Historic District lies almost entirely within the park
that sits at the foot of the Blue Mountains in Northampton County
just North of Nazareth, PA. Henrys Woods offers very scenic hikes
and the rest of the grounds have multi-use trails within its 1,168
acres. Enjoy hiking and fishing the 2.5 miles of the beautiful Bushkill
Creek and its tributary, Sobers Run, that winds through the park.
Or take in the short 1.9 hike on the loop trail and experience the
sights, sounds, and coolness of the Bushkill Creek as it meanders
past dramatic slate outcroppings and old stands of hemlock and white
oaks. See displays and demonstrations of early gunmaking at the
Pennsylvania Longrifle Heritage Museum currently in the Henry Homestead
built in 1812.
Saturday
Night Campfire Program and Religious Services will be provided.
REGISTRATION
IS NOW OPEN -
Registration
is required
Select here for form -> Registration
Form
(
Includes Advance Order for T-Shirt, Caps, Reserve Merit
Badge Slotes )
Complete
and Submit to Minsi Trails Council by 8/15/08
We will still except registrations up to the last minute,
but the
ordering of Caps and T-shirts is closed.
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Additional
Camping News
Bring
camp chairs or blankets to sit on for the Camp Fire Program,
Bring a flat spade shovel to remove sod if you plan to do
a site camp fire (sod needs to be replaced), and Bring as
many full water jugs as you can to easy the demand on the
water buffalos
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