Backpacking
Our troop has many opportunities for all skill levels to go on and enjoy backpacking trips. You do not have to have any experience or prior skills to backpack. If you are interested in doing more advanced trips you are required to complete training trips beforehand. Check the calendar for any upcoming beginner, intermediate, and advanced trips (only available to current troop members).
The above photo is from a week long backpacking trip in Glacier National Park where we took the Amtrak from Portland to East Glacier and then explored the Belly River region. In preparation for this trip, we completed several smaller 2-night trips. We were able to see many amazing views an wildlife.
Below is a photo of five of our scouts in Glacier walking towards the two passes that they planned to explore.
Water Adventures
In 2023 our yearly high adventure was a rafting trip. We went on a 3 day 2 night rafting trip on the Deschutes River. This high adventure trip was for beginners and did not require any previous experience with rafting.
In 2022 members of the troop went snorkeling in Florida at Seabase (BSA high adventure base)
The upcoming 2024 high adventure trip will be sea kayaking in Alaska at the Chilkoot Adventure Base. Unlike the rafting trip this will have training trips leading up to it to help build skill.
This photo was taken on our 2023 rafting trip. We are on the Deschutes River. At some points on this trip we were able to get out of the raft and swim in the water.