... little bitty stinging rain ... big old fat rain ...

[Trevorum 24]

... rain that flew in sideways, and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night.

 

Sound familiar?

 

Some of my best Scouting memories are in ponchos.

 

[SemperParatus 1]

You know it, buddy.

 

Back in 2002 - 2003 El Nino days, I think it rained on every trip we did. The worst was a hailstorm with fist-sized hail down in Virginia.

 

 

[SR540Beaver 116]

El Nino? Yeahhhh, that's the ticket. Back then, all of those rainy campouts were blamed on me in my troop. Why didn't I think of El Nino back then?

[ASM416 10]

I thought the rain only followed my troop around. That and the bitter cold in winter! Summer camp 2004 was named Mud Week at Camp Merz. We had so much mud in our site we could have wrestled in it. We had to get pallets from the local lumber store to walk to our tents.

 

I have to say even with all the rain and mud it was one of the best weeks I have spent at camp. Funny how that works isn't it?

 

Tim

[funscout 11]

My son asked for heavy duty tent stakes after he and his tent-mate had to spend 20 minutes holding his tent down in a WINDY afternoon rainstorm! He wasn't the only one who had wimpy stakes, so there were a few other tents threatening to fly away!

[Loping Okie 10]

As the Scouters around her say "If it ain't raining we ain't training". Time to do some Training around here in OK and TX.

[Trevorum 24]

 

"There's no such thing as 'bad weather', There's just poor choices in clothing."

[Beavah 205]

Yah, yah... I remember bikin' wit some scouts when da rain was realy hail that had partly melted on the way down. Big honkin' raindrops wit these little ice crystals chunks inside that you ran into at 15-20mph + wind.

 

Of course youth and skill is no match for old age and treachery. If ya timed the rotation out of lead position while watching the squall lines, you could make sure that a scout was in the lead position for each major assault of these "liquid needles". The chant of "Ow..Ow..Ow..Ow!" from da leader set the pace for everyone else....

[Owl62 13]

"If it ain't raining, it ain't training!"

 

I also like Trevorum's:

 

"There's no such thing as 'bad weather', There's just poor choices in clothing."

 

You can almost bank on it that if I am camping, it will rain.

 

What's that other saying?

 

"Be Prepared"

[red feather 10]

Not sure where I first heard it but...

 

"Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get."

 

Like most the overnights that I and most of the scouts remember are the ones that most people would be 'bad' weather. But we sure enjoy and learn the most from them.

 

 

yis

[hops_scout 9]

"It ain't rain; it's liquid sunshine!"