Colossal Cobb Scouters’ Winter Campout
41st Annual Adult Winter Camping Experience
Scouters' Winter Campout (SWC) has been an annual event for Cobb County Scouters for 42 years. It's a great tradition that showcases the best of Cobb's three Scouting Districts: Covered Bridge, Foothills and Mountain Lake which began humbly as a training event to show adult leaders that their units could easily camp comfortably in the outdoors throughout winter months and has grown into an adult "Camporee". Bring your curiosity, warm clothes, best "Scout Spirit" and other adult members of your unit for a great weekend of FUN, fellowship and inspiration!
SWC is open to all adult Scouters from the Scoutmaster with 25 years of leadership to the Den Leader who just signed up at School Night for Scouting. The program is organized to emulate the Boy Scout patrol method. For the 2009 SWC, we had a total of 42 Patrols with over 396 participants in attendance. We have room for many more in 2010.
SWC 2009 - Leave a Trace...
Well, there is no question that Tom Morin "Left a Trace" with a great event! As a member of his staff I can tell you that we all had a lot of fun preparing for and presenting the games. What's more, all of the behind-the-scene staffers went out of their way to make the whole event seamless for everyone, congratulations! And while we had challenges to be sure everyone, all 396 Scouters, became "energized" to have a grand time and we did. We had weather ... a little precipitation Saturday evening but all in all it was a great day, a great weekend for Scouting!
Congratulations to all patrols for the energy, enthusiasm and excitement everyone brought along to the event. The campsites, flags, table decorations and skits were awesome! And I don't know about Tom but I really appreciate everyone keeping me nice and warm during the closing assembly... rest assured temperature was not an issue for me.
A special round of applause goes out to
the 2009 Spirit and Honor Patrols...
The 2009 Spirit Patrol: Bear-ly Eagles, Troop 204
The 2009 Honor Patrol: Super Scouters, Troop 750 (photo on right).
And now it's on to SWC 2010 and A Century of Scouting for the Boy Scouts of America. It's hard to believe that Scouting will be 100 years old and SWC will have 42 years under its belt ... that's quite a tradition for any Scouting event.
Please join me in thanking Tom and his staff and then join me, John Keeshen SM, Warren Wright SPL and the SWC 2010 staff next year when we come back to Woodruff Scout Reservation to do it again!
Details to follow...
John Keeshen
Scoutmaster
SWC 2010
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