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Klondike Derby 2022

On January 15th of 2022, Troop 66 participated in the 2022 Klondike Derby at the Quail Hill Scout reservation. The Klondike Derby is a fun experience where Boy Scouts get to compete to show their skills in various events as well as bond with their patrol.  When we arrived at 7:30 about 2 groups of 5 scouts started by setting up the sleighs and weighing them on the scales. We received our schedule of randomly ordered events that included first aid, pioneering, cooking, team building, water rescue, soup kitchen, fire building, communication, and orienteering. We got the score cards and headed to our first station. The patrol I was in was assigned cooking first. Each person in the patrol was assigned to cook a brownie in an orange peel with coals. My patrol went through this task fairly easily by scooping out the oranges and using the peels as bowls that we wrapped in tin foil. We got a 23/25 in this.  The next station was water rescue where my patrol was asked to use several m...