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Outings & Adventures

The Stairstep to Adventure

Troop 78 has developed a “Stairstep to Adventure” program that provides challenging but achievable adventures as Scouts grow in skills and strength. As they progress through their skill development, Scouts become prepared for longer and more difficult outings and adventures. The Stairstep to Adventure program forms the backbone of Troop 78 programming and keeps Scouts engaged in our troop from 5th grade through senior year of high school.

Monthly Outings

Monthly Outings

New Scouts begin their journey at weekly troop meetings that introduce basic Scout skills and the Patrol Method. Monthly Outings reinforce those skills through the real-world practice of teamwork, camping, cooking, hiking, orienteering, pioneering, first aid, and wilderness survival.

Typical Monthly Outings:

Mountain Scout (primitivist trip: no stoves, no matches, no tents)
Snow Sports Weekend (skiing/snowboarding at Winter Park)
Pre-Klondike (intro to winter camping skills)
Klondike Derby (multi-troop winter camping with skill challenges)
14er Hike
Canoeing and Fishing
Snowshoe Hike
Canyon Mountain Biking
Stargazing & Rocketry
Canyoneering Long Weekend
Archery/Rifle Shooting Sports Weekend

Summer Adventures: Leveled Challenges

Once Scouts have mastered the basic skills in the spring and early summer, they are prepared for more difficult Summer Adventures that are leveled by age and skill ability.

New Scouts begin with summer camp and backpacking and then progress to bolder adventures as they and their patrol advance in skills and ability. Second- and third-year Scouts are prepared for week-long backpacking and canoe trips.

Typical Summer Adventures:

Summer Camp (weeklong)
Backpacking Weekends
Weeklong Backpacking
Weeklong Canoe Trek

BSA High Adventure Camps

The middle-school age Summer Adventures offer real-world experience to Scouts who want to prepare for even more challenging high-school level challenges like the BSA High Adventure Bases. Our older scouts (grades 9 and above) have the opportunity to attend BSA High Adventure Bases each year and rotates through Philmont, Northern Tier, and Sea Base.

Super High Adventures

Troop 78 doesn’t stop at BSA High Adventures. For Scouts who have the fitness, skills, and experience, we go even bigger. Our Scout-led, adult-enabled, custom super-high adventures are more challenging than BSA High Adventure Bases. They are typically capstone adventures for our most experienced Scouts who are soon heading off to college. These outings test the Scouts, Scoutmasters, and adult volunteers who attend them and require a full year or more of planning as well as a few months of physical preparation. Recent adventures include two weeks of backpacking in Colorado’s San Juan mountains, a two-week trek through Alaska, and a week of biking and canyoneering in the remotest Utah wildernesses.

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