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JUST IN CASE YOU NEED SOMETHING TO DO FRIDAY NIGHT....--- You are invited to the WHITE OAK DISTRICT BAND CONCERT - FRIDAY - 1/30/26 @ 7:30pm. (Prompt start - please arrive by 7:20) Come in person to Transfiguration Parish, 13925 New Hampshire Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20904 or watch it live at: https://transfig.org/livestream/ The band is composed of 35 scouts, their family members, and friends who have worked hard to provide a beautiful performance. We hope to see you at Transfiguration. -
By E V Augustine · Posted
yknot, your thought would hold true if vehicles towing trailers were the only ones on the roads. In an earlier post I wrote that vehicles transporting people and their gear are allowed access to campsites on entry and departure. Adult campers may drive in and park on the road during the week if they have limited mobility documented on their medical forms. Given the typical distribution of one vehicle/trailer combination to about 10-15 passenger vehicles per troop at camp, management's justification gets pretty thin pretty quickly. From the postings so far I am encouraged that the practice of camp staff towing troop trailers into the campsite is unique to Beaumont Scout Reservation. -
Sounds like some of the damage is being done based on how and where people park and how that affects where and how they pull out. If the staff parks the trailer, then they know how you are going to leave, so that's why they are not so worried about the pull out. -
By E V Augustine · Posted
I agree. There is a staffer posted at each campsite to greet and assist incoming troops, then once camp is set take the guys on an orientation tour. A 10' x 20' gravel pad at each site near the road would would prevent any difficulties. But, as I wrote in an earlier post, gravel costs money. In the current system troops arrive at the campsite with personal gear then wait as much as 2.5 hours for their trailer with troop gear (tents) to appear. This year in a camp leaders Zoom call the camp director discussed the importance of working quickly to set camp. Apparently staff is inconvenienced by the delays. To me this smacks of defending a bad decision. InquisitiveScouter suggested finding another camp. That's in the works. -
By HashTagScouts · Posted
This is so weird to me- you can drive out, but not in. If their real intent is not just have folks driving o'er hill and dale and trampling everything on the way, it would seem that the Camp staff could serve a purpose on saying "you will be accompanied by Camp Staff to drop trailers at the appropriate troop campsite". Our camp has a designated hour, before campers are to arrive, for units that wish to have a trailer at their campsite. Staff don't physically ride along with them (as they are typically the youth staff), but they will meet them at the campsite if the unit is not familiar with where to appropriately place trailers (Ranger allows in site entryway, but not within the campsite proper).
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