Our Troop 2018 Campfire Ashes
Our troop attended the 2020 Great Virtual Camporee and has joined our campfire ashes by mail with some others with an amazing pedigree. They used to have a website posted about the history of their ashes, but that website no longer exists. We sent some of our ashes out to the West Coast to their fire circle, and they sent us some of theirs after the event. The ashes that they sent to us were added in to ours at the next campfire when we finally camped in person again after the COVID-19 lockdown. Their ashes could be traced back over 100 years to the days of Baden Powell. (They were not able to trace back to any of his actual campfires, but they were able to go back that far to Scouting activities when he was actively Scouting!)
The legacy of OUR Troop 2019 campfire ashes…
On our first campout on February 9, 2019, we started a tradition of saving ashes from our campfire, and every time we have a campfire, we bring that camping legacy with us and sprinkle it back in the fire. Each Scout gets an ash container after her first troop campfire. At the end of the campfire when the ashes are cool, we refill our ash containers with the combined ashes to bring a little bit of every one of our trips with us. We don’t get to have a campfire every time we camp, but we try to continue this tradition when we do.
Here is where our campfires have been:
February 8, 2019: Davidsonville Family Recreation Center
March 2019: Davidsonville Family Recreation Center FAC campout with Troop 454
May 2019: Cedarwood State Park campout with Pack 2018
October 2019: Calhoun Farm, Webelos Woods
November 2019: Kiwanis Club, Troop S’more Night
October 31, 2020: Kiwanis Club, Halloween campout
April 10, 2021: “Bring Some Friends” Campout, Mayo Kiwanis Club
May 1, 2021, District Camporee
June 26, 2021: Calvert Cliffs State Park Campout
July 23, 2021: Camp Rock Enon summer camp
February, 2022: Gunpowder Fall State Park Campout
March, 2022: Recruiting Campout at the DFRC
April 2022: The Capitol District’s “The Last Roundup” Camporee
October 2022: River Hawk District’s Web-o-ree
January 2023: ODD Klondike Derby
March 2023: Camp Henson Yurts Campout
April 2023: Gunpowder Falls State Park Campout
July 2023: Camp Minsi, in our campsite fire ring
July 2024: Camp Mountaineer, campsite fire ring
August 2024: Treehouse campout, TWO campsite fire rings!
March 2025: Valley Forge Campout, campsite fire ring
August 2025: Guppy Gulch, campsite fire ring
Welcome to Troop 2018! 