A brief overview of the weekend’s activities is listed below. Please note that the camp is generally planned by the Senior Staff, and plans may be altered. People start arriving Friday afternoon, but the bulk of the travel happens Saturday morning. All families are responsible for their own meals until the wonderful Saturday evening meal.

Saturday: Arrivals. The Troop trailer is unloaded of its kitchen stuff and makes a trip to the grocery store.
Noon-5PM: The Troop Weekend officially begins with patrols going through “stations” all afternoon. Families can go down to the water and swim. If someone brings a boat, water skiing can happen.
1PM-5PM: The troop trailer returns with wonderful things to eat. Most of the afternoon will be spent figuring out how to store all the food and what we should eat for which meal. The preparation for the evening meal will then begin and several hours will be spent slicing and dicing, coaxing the barbecue to life, laying out the hors d’oeuvres, etc. Someone will turn on the basketball game, and a pop top may be heard now and then. All fathers are encouraged to join these endeavors, and it’s usually a pretty good time. Eventually the steaks and chickens are ready and dinner begins.
5PM: Patrols make dinner (graded). The parents enjoy dinner and conversation. CAMPFIRE happens once it’s dark with skits and songs by all patrols.

Sunday
7AM: Breakfast prepared by the Dads.
9AM: Chapel
10 or 11AM: Patrol/Family/Siblings competitions and games. This takes place on the green sward adjacent to the “club house” and is designed to include all siblings old enough to run and all fathers young enough -- well, all fathers. Mothers get their chance in “Save the Mom” and the Parent/Patrol canoe races.
Noon: Lunch cooked by new fathers!
1PM: Lakeside Canoe Frolics & Follies. This is a patrol competition that happens in the canoes and involves all families and siblings. Samples are:
“Drag the Dad” canoe race,
“Hand Paddle Race,”
“Sibling/Scout Race,”
“Save the Mom,” and others. All participants finish soaked. All spectators have sore stomach muscles from laughter. Kids who aren’t actively participating and most siblings are usually playing in the lake. Everyone in the water wears Personal Flotation Devices. It’s really fun. Walking back up the hill isn’t fun.
4PM-ish: Dads are making dinner again. More basketball, more barbecue smoke, more conversation, and more slicing and dicing manage to make the afternoon pass a bit too quickly. The scouts join us for this meal. They really eat a lot!!!
6PM: Dinner
8PM: CAMPFIRE. More skits and songs. This is also the auction campfire and the scouts cleverly bid on boxes of rocks they are convinced are boxes of candy. Don’t ask me why. It’s a tradition.

Monday
7AM: Breakfast. The scouts join us for breakfast. Amazingly, after all the food they ate the night before, they are ravenous. You cannot cook enough bacon.
8:30AM: The fathers then begin breaking down the kitchen tools, cleaning up and packing the trailer. All leftovers are put out and everyone makes lunches. Tents are packed, and the camp is basically struck to the cars.
10 or 11AM: Back to the lake for a serious Patrol Regatta. More fun in the water. Lunch is taken lakeside.
3-4PM: Leave for Los Angeles.

Again, this is a preliminary schedule and may or may not be accurate. The Senior Staff will make the final determination of what happens when.


FOOD: It is a tradition that each family brings three dozen cookies for dessert for the meals. The Mother's Club generally provides the hors d'ouvres for each evening. New families are exempt from these contributions.

COOKING: There is a clubhouse where all cooking and eating is done. It is another tradition that the fathers new to the Troop make the lunch on Sunday. There will be lots of old hands on board to assist. Being 'old hands', however, means they may have to remain seated during guidance to conserve their energy. See official Troop 2 Potato Recipe.

CHAIRS: Each person should bring a lightweight folding chair to use during the campfire or during the day while reading that book you've dying to get to.

WEATHER AND CLOTHING: SUNSCREEN -- IT IS SUNNY! Generally it is hot during the day and cold at night. Sunblock, shorts, swimsuits augmented by jackets or blankets for sitting by the campfires. Rain is rare, but please pack some rain gear. IT IS COLD AT NIGHT - The temperature goes into the 40's at night, so when you're sitting out at the campfire, unless you're sitting on top of it, can be very cold. Bring a warm jacket.

CHILDREN: All young children need to be constantly supervised, especially at the waterfront. Please watch your children. Many kids spend a lot of time riding around the camp on bikes, so if you can squeeze your son's bike into the car, by all means do so. Helmets are required. If you can, please bring a lock as well, just for security's sake.

DOGS: Your dog is welcome only if you plan to keep him on the end of a leash at all times. The leash MUST NOT be tied to anything but your wrist. In other words, don't tie your dog up and go off somewhere. If your dog is there, you must be there with him!

ALCOHOL: There is no alcohol at Boy Scout events (where Scouts are present.)

FACILITIES & ACTIVITIES: Bring games -- Scrabble, Cards, Chess (this is for all, parents and kids.) A partial list of what the area has to offer, in no particular order, includes: small café and bar, grocery/drygoods store, laundromat, marina with boats, tubes, pedal-boats and fishing equipment for sale/rent. Full camper hookups, 26 miles of hiking and bike trails, museum and visitor center, waterskiing, 60 miles of shoreline (includes sandy beach), gas station, volleyball, horseshoe pit, playground for the kids, fishing, a HUGE old car rally in Paso Robles, canoeing, swimming, watching/participating in scouting activities, relaxing in the shade with a good book, and nearby there are always winery tours, -- pasowine.com. There are also massages, facials, etc (see pasohotsprings.com)

RV trailers for use at the Lake are available for rental. They will be delivered to camp on Friday and picked up Monday. Call Earl at Earl's RV Rental in Lompoc, 805-736-5175 for more information. There are also some cabins a short drive from the campsite. See their website at: http://www.tcsn.net/lsar/mainleft.html

COSTS: While the majority of the costs for the weekend (camp fees, some parking fees, etc) are underwritten by Troop 2, we must assess certain small amounts to cover the six meals the fathers so lovingly prepare. ADULTS: $30.00, SCOUTS: $15.00, SIBLINGS: $25.00, GUESTS: $30.00