2021 Winter Camp

December 17-20, 2021

Camp Barstow

100 Ruby Riser Rd.

Batesburg, SC 29006

What is Winter Camp:

The Winter Camp is held December 17-20 at Camp Barstow. This Winter Camp is held at the beginning of winter break just before Christmas.  A volunteer camp staff provides program help, guidance, and supervision in the area of Scout-craft, Nature, Arts, and Citizenship as well as many other specialty merit badges.   These may include merit badges that are required for the Eagle Scout rank.  

Scouts sign-up for Merit Badges in Bundles such as Fire Safety and Traffic Safety, Rifle and Archery, or Home Repairs and Painting.  They will stay in that Bundle for the day to complete work in both badges in that Bundle.  Some merit badges will have prerequisites to be completed before attending.  This is similar to the Bundle program at Summer Camp at Barstow.

What will we do:

Provide advancement opportunities for Scouts
Familiarize youth with the Scouting program through the outdoor experience
Stimulate Troop programming before, during, and after attending camp
Make friends and have FUN
Share ideas and enjoy fellowship
Camp-wide campfires and competition
Adult service project available (please contact Dennis Ely for more info.)

Who can attend:

Any registered Scouts BSA youth may attend.  Registered leaders and parents may attend if they have current Youth Protection Training.  Troops should make sure that all Scouts attending have adequate adult supervision at all times.  Multi troops may pool their resources in order to provide an adequate number of Scouts and adult leaders to form a unit.  Those scouts whos unit is not attending and still want to attend, they may sign-up as a Maverick.  This places them in a "provisional" unit made up of other Mavericks with adult leadership that is provided by the camp.  There is a fee to sign-up as a Maverick camper.   Units with 4 or more scouts attending must register at least one adult.

Cost to attend:

Cost to attend is $95.00 per Scout and $60.00 per adult.  Maverick campers are $110.00 per Scout.  There is an additional fee for Scouts who sign-up for Cooking ($30.00) or Shoot ($30.00) Merit Badges.

Merit Badge Bundles for Winter Camp 2021

Bundle                                    Badge 1                                    Badge 2

Arts                                        Photography                              Art

Work                                      American Business                     American Labor

CSI                                        Fingerprinting                            Crime Prevention

DR                                         Medicine                                   Dentistry
     
AC-DC                                    Radio                                       Electricity
 
Boat                                      Canoeing                                   Rowing

Fix                                        Home Repairs                            Painting

Public  (one badge)                Public Health

Sky                                       Astronomy                                Weather

Motors                                  Automotive Maintenance             Farm Mechanics

Climb  (one badge)                Climbing  

Safety                                  Fire Safety                                 Traffic Safety

Cook (one badge)                  Cooking  

Pets                                     Veterinary Medicine                    Pets                   Dog Care                                                                      
Shoot                                   Rifle                                          Archery

Citizenship                           Cit in the Nation                         Communications

Community                           Citizenship in the Community      Citizenship in the World
 

Merit Badge Bundles will be taught in one day during Winter Camp, either on unless otherwise noted:

            Saturday (morning and afternoon)

            Sunday (morning and afternoon)

            Monday (morning and afternoon)

This will keep the Scouts in that bundle together for a day limiting the exposure to others each day.

Scouts may sign up for up to three Bundles unless a bundle must take up more than one period (day)

*Scouts taking the Shoot and Cook bundle will need to plan on all three days to complete this bundle.