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Rideau River Canoe Trip - 2012 05 15

Posted by 32OttawaScouting on May 16, 2012

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Canoe Trip - Rideau River Through Ottawa

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Scouts 5 Day Canoe Trip in La Verendrye

This year’s 5 day canoe trip was Circuit 15 in La Verendrye, a massive nature preserve about 3 hours north of Ottawa that is almost twice as big as Algonquin Park. The 32nd started doing these longer trips almost 10 years ago now because they are more demanding and a greater challenge than the shorter 3 day weekend trips. This allows for a greater opportunity for Scouts to learn about self-reliance and teamwork. The 5 day trip involves packing up camp and paddling every day to a new campsite. This and the longer nature of the trip including portaging really brings out the team spirit in everyone as they all learn to work together. We met at the school at 8:30 am and were packed and on the road by 9. This year there were 11 Scouts and 5 Scouters. With a stop for gas in Maniwaki it was just over 3 hours to get to Le Domaine, the park office. We got ourselves checked in and unloaded, and just after 1:30 we were hitting the water. We had only about 4.5 km to go to our campsite

Newfoundland Exchange - Newfoundland End

On Friday July 28th eight of our ten Scouts met at the airport to embark upon an epic journey to Newfoundland - the second half of our exchange with 1st Topsail and 1st Conception Bay South (CBS) troops. Joining us were 17 Scouts from the 115th Ottawa Sea Scouts, and 2 from the 17th Ottawa Westminster. Well, technically we were joining the 115th. Our plane arrived around 10 pm Newfoundland time, and we were quickly whisked away by parents and Scouters of both of the Newfoundland troops to Camp St. George which is owned and maintained by 1st CBS. It was about a 45 minute drive and we were arriving close to midnight. Excitement was high as newfound friends re-united. Since our arrival was so late almost everyone bunked down on the floor of the camp, though a few like your humble author did set up their tents outside in the field. It was past 1am when things finally settled down and we called for quiet time.

Frontenac Provincial Park - Reloaded

Our weekend is best summed up by a quote overheard from a conversation between two first year Scouts when we were about half way in on Saturday : "this ain't no cub camp!". Indeed, it was a challenging self-contained hike-in camp which had us carrying all of our gear 8km in on Saturday, and then back out on Sunday. Frontenac Provincial Park is a backwoods-only provincial park with campsites accessible only by canoe or hiking in. This weekend Scouts completed the second leg of their adventure in this park, a two-part camp where they practiced the "plan, do, review" methodology of the Canadian Path but added their own twist - plan, do, review, do-again. After the first camp a month ago Scouts examined their gear and food choices to come up with a plan to allow them to accomplish a self-contained hike-in camp deeper into the backwoods of this provincial gem. We spent several weeks between the two camps going over shelter options, gear options, and food opt

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Rideau River Canoe Trip - 2012 05 15

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