Alexandria Boy Scout Troop 112 was the host for the 2016 Klondike Derby,attracting 250 scouts and adult leaders to the annual camp out and leadership andskills competition at the Hunterdon County Park Systems, Teetertown Preserve inCalifon, Jan. 29-30. The winter scouting event, held nationally since 1949, wasoriginally scheduled for the previous weekend, but was rescheduled due to asignificant snowstorm.
Event organizer Tom Callahan and the youth and adult leadership of Troop 112,sponsored by the Alexandria First Presbyterian Church, set up a schedule of eightchallenging stations: blindfolded tent set up; knots and pioneering skills; compassorienteering course; a first aid station where scouts dealt with a simulated Yetiattack; fire building competition; three legged relay races; sled inspection and aLumber Jack station where using a double cut buck saw, scouts sawed through a logfor the best time. The participating scouts donated over 275 cans of food to a localfood pantry. Our own resident "Yeti" was on hand to oversee the event. Theculmination of the Yeti Expedition was a sled race, where the Scouts served as sleddogs, with the 19 Troops from Hunterdon and Warren Counties competing on afigure eight course.
Annually, scouting districts throughout the U.S. and Canada host a Klondike Derbyevent, which is based on the Klondike Gold Rush, but varies by district. For moreinformation on Troop 112 activities, please visit www.bsa-troop112.net and formore information about Scouting where you are, see www.beascout.org
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