Here are a couple of pictures from our week at Goshen this year. We landed in our favorite Camp Marriott campground, site 2. Unlike last year, the weather was great. We earned 63 merit badges and a variety of other awards, but mostly we just had a great time! At Goshen, scouts learn the patrol […]
In April, we took a backpacking trip to the Hazel River area of the Shenandoah. We hiked about 8 miles in, and 6 out. We started from Skyline Drive and hiked east, so the there were more downhills the first day and uphills the next day. There were many stream crossings. A number of scouts […]
Check out this video of our fall, 2013 (and some winter 2014) adventures!
This is a great camp-out and the scouts get to make their own shelters that they get to sleep in. Please see this video that Mr. Schecter put together from over the weekend.
In October, Troop 233 held a 50 mile bike overnight on the Great Allegheny Passage. It was a great success. Our adventure started in Frostburg, MD and ended in Confluence, PA. On the first day, we biked 30 miles up the trail, through the Big Savage Tunnel and over the Eastern Continental Divide, and camped […]
This past summer, instead of hiking the mountains at Philmont or sailing the seas at sea base, we decided to canoe the Shenandoah River in Virginia. The fish were plenty, the rapids thrilling, and the boys elated as we whisked past plains and prairies in our simple canoes. We experienced many things throughout this trip. […]
Troop 233 has a new web site, and what you see here is just the start! This will serve as a nice public face for our troop, so people can find out more about us. At the same time, we are making it easier for scouts, parents and nonmembers to see our calendar. The calendar […]
Goshen Scout Camp, run by the National Capital Area Council, is great fun, and many of our scouts participate. We spend a week in the woods in Virginia, working on merit badges, camping, cooking, and participating in a huge variety of activities – really too numerous to mention. This was a great year, despite (ahem) […]
In July 2012 we were pleased to send a crew to the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimmaron, New Mexico. The crew trained over a number of weekends prior to the trip, and chose Liam B. as Crew Chief. In addition to our scouts, two scouts from Troop 1427 joined us from Potomac, MD. In this […]