Zombie Frog Strangler

Yes it’s time for more scouts camping!!

This time it was the spring camporee and this year’s theme was Zombies!  The older scouts that served as camp staff were all dressed up like Zombies, and they tried to take some standard scout activities and zombify them.   I thought they were successful, in an Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell, Cheesy Movie sort of way. 

While the camporee stations themselves weren’t terribly memorable; like the run from the zombie with your injured buddy relay race below

One of the biggest problems I’ve run into at these events is that the old scouts that plan the events have a hard time judging how long their activities will really take.  They leave an hour, but it only takes 25 minutes.  What do you do with the extra time? One of the thing I really liked is that most stations has a secondary activity to do while you wait, or after you were done

The real challenge to this camp out though wasn’t the Zombies, but the weather.  This was as nice as it got:

After the Saturday events, and thankfully after dinner, we had a frog strangler.  As out scoutmaster put it we only had a quarter inch of rain, under the rainfly.  It poured.  The Tornado sirens when off. We discussed emergency plans.  For some reason the kids decided that if they saw a tornado, they were going to hide in the latrine nearby because it was the only permanent structure nearby.  Really?  I told them that if I saw a tornado I was going to hide in the ditch across the road, not in a building that would just be shrapnel if a tornado hit it.  I told them the only reason I’d hide in there was if it started to hail, which thankfully it didn’t.

Every tent leaked to some extent.  The ones that leaked the least were the ones that had a rainfly that went all the way to the ground.  Mine didn’t, but lucky my sleeping bag, while damp, we still dry inside.  One of the other tents got so wet inside that the occupants ended up sleeping in a car.

On a couple of side notes;

I got to see a stunning display of anal retentive synergy – no I’m not going to say more.

I also realized that my hairline has crept back far enough that if I’m not more careful I’ll have a burnt forehead this summer.