Camporee:

What is it?
                  -by the Golden Arrow District

 

"Camporee is many things--camping fun for boys, the thumping of hundreds of feet on the way to an evening campfire, the delicious aromas coming from the Dutch Oven Cooking Contest. The excitement of scouts waiting to find out if they will be tapped out for Order of the Arrow. It is the patter of rain on many tents at night. It is the ripple of the windblown flags in the morning sun. It is catching the idea of teamwork in a patrol. It is learning to carry out an order you don't like. It is attending of the Scout Interfaith Service. The patrol flag contest. Earning a ribbon for the patrol flag. The awards ceremony and the wooden plaques.

A Camporee starts with the recognition that a patrol is the basic (camping) unit. The patrol demonstrates its very best camping techniques and shares its experience with other patrols. The Camporee involves the type of equipment that can be carried in a pack or troop trailer and can be set up entirely by the boys. The equipment set up enables the boys to be completely self-sufficient for a self-reliant experience over a period of 2 or 3 days. Camporee is FUN, FUN, FUN, FUN."

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