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Originally Posted by troutman
Camp Gardner is closing (and moving?):
http://chin.scouts.ca/ca/camp-gardner
Camp Gardner will be closing October 1, 2015.
We will take the best of our history into the future. We have had the privilege of Clem Gardner’s “graze lease" donation since 1957 to enjoy a cub camp retreat for almost 60 years. What a wonderful place for young Cub Scouts and others to experience learning in the outdoors. It was the camp experience at Camp Gardner that laid the foundation to become a successful scouter.
The Cub Scout Way is to play! The experience of camping is not going away, it is simply being moved. Since the flood in 2013, we have re-directed our Cub Camp program to Tillicum Village at Camp Impeesa
They had a great obstacle course. |
I have exactly one memory of that place. We had gone out for the weekend, I think I had been there a whole 30 minutes when we got on the "bull". It was an oil drum hung on a frame with 4 ropes. 4 others would rock the thing back and forth. It was designed for scout sized kids, but us beavers went right for it. At 8 years old there was no way I was wrapping my legs around it and I was the first to scramble aboard. The barrel gained momentum rapidly. My legs, unable to wrap around the barrel let lose. Chin forward, I was sent like a stone from a trebeche, directly into the support bar. Chin split open, bleeding like Spartan from 300, it was straight to Foothills for 12 stitches. The leader called my parents up, and they were less surprised that I injured myself than that I hadn't even been there an hour. So ya, that oil barrel and the scar on my chin are my sole memories of that place.