Fall Camporee

October 20-22, 2017

VFW National Home

Eaton Rapids, MI

Taking Escape Rooms Out-of-Doors!

This event is set up with registration by unit. Unit leaders are responsible for registering Scouts and Crew members from their unit and for registering Webelos that their unit invites.   Please provide email addresses for Scoutmasters and SPLs so we can communicate with units to provide additional information and camporee plans.  If there are individual Webelos who want to come, please contact Ray Rustem.  He can match Webelos with participating units.  

Cost:  $15 youth, $10 adults if paid by September 30th.  Fee covers program materials, patch, recognition, insurance, administration.  Fee does NOT cover food.  Units are responsible for own food.

Arrive 5pm on October 20, 2017 and leave at noon October 22, 2017

Each patrol and crew will use scout skills to escape a number of out-of-doors rooms.  With each escape, patrols and crews will receive a clue to solve the camporee puzzle.  Patrols / crews solving the puzzle will receive awards! 

Troops need to bring all the gear necessary to set up their own campsite: tents, dining tables, dining fly, cooking stoves, first aid kit, water and food storage containers.  Bring navigation devices i.e.. compass, GPS unit and/or cell phones w/ GPS and compass software.  Units will supply their own food and make arrangements for feeding the Webelos Scouts you invite.  No ground fires will be allowed.  There will be a Friday night cracker barrel for Scoutmasters and Senior Patrol leaders, Saturday night campfire with skits, and Sunday morning Scouts Own and awards presentation. 

Bring your health form and uniform.  No walk-ins.

Link to health form ----   http://www.scouting.org/filestore/HealthSafety/pdf/680-001_AB.pdf

Questions?  Contact Ray Rustem at radarustem@gmail.com

Here are directions to the VFW National Home.  

Going south from Lansing on MI-99 (I-96 EXIT 101) follow MI-99 11.80 miles, turn left onto N Main St/MI-99/MI-50. Then 0.50 miles, turn left onto E Broad St/MI-188. Continue to follow MI-188 for 4.28 miles and then becomes S. Waverly Rd. Then 0.54 miles to VFW home on left

From SOUTH US127 Take EXIT 56 toward Bellevue Rd/Leslie. Turn left onto W Bellevue St. Take W Bellevue Rd.  6.09 miles, turn right onto Onondaga Rd. Then 1.01 miles, turn left onto Kinneville Rd. Then 2.04 miles, turn right (N) onto S Waverly Rd. Then 0.23 miles to VFW home on right.