I am also at a troop in Texas and we alternate near & far camps. One of the things we look at is total cost of the camp (fees, rentals, gas $, shirts, etc) and total it up. When they boys have asked for an expensive camp - we total up the cost & they have to plan to fundraise as a unit to get the group costs down to a reasonable level. One thing I have seen is that sometimes you have a group of parents who are willing to write a check for a high dollar adventure (which is fine), but as their scouts move through the program, the new scout families coming in might not feel the same wa
