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Winter Weekend

This is a tremendous opportunity for you and members of your troop, patrol or parent and son team to enjoy a fun-filled weekend in the great outdoors when nature provides the beauty of winter. You will stay in our Potomac Homes overlooking Lake Courage. Cafeteria style meals are provided in our dining area at Pathfinder Lodge. Come with your personal gear and enjoy winter with its exciting program features.

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Program Features

The weekend will include cross-country skiing, ice skating (weather permitting), tobogganing and snow tubing. The camp will provide most of the equipment. The camp has snow shoes, cross country skis, ice skates and toboggans. However, please bring any equipment that you may have (no hockey sticks please). If there is no snow on the ground, the program will consist of parent/son log sawing, frisbee golf, BB range, archery, slow-pitch softball and hiking or just enjoying a weekend with your troop members at camp.

Check In

The Winter Sports Weekends will begin with check in at 6 p.m. on Friday. Participants will receive a snack at 9 p.m. that evening. Please avoid arriving after 10 p.m. Both sessions will conclude on Sunday by noon.

Cost

The package includes lodging Friday and Saturday night, Friday snack, all meals on Saturday, breakfast Sunday, plus use of camp equipment and costs only $50. Participants stay at the Eagle Base Conference CEnter, each home includes beds, heat, bathrooms and showers. Each home has new bunk-beds and mattresses in three small rooms upstairs and one larger, dormitory-style room downstairs. We suggest that adults may want to sleep on the bottom bunk and youth on the top bunk.

All fees are non-refundable but are transferable to another Heritage Weekend event if a medical or family emergency prevents you from attending.  No-shows and cancellations will not be refunded.

Items to Bring

You will need to bring your own linens and personal items. We suggest that you bring the basic necessities; sweaters, warm jackets, flashlight, extra clothes, boots, etc. Dress for the weather. A suggested packing list is provided here.

Registration

You can register and pay online with an electronic check or credit card, or if you prefer, register online and mail in your check. Only individual registrations will be accepted. No unit registrations will be accepted. The deadline is one week prior to the event.

Further Details

More information including a schedule of events, menu and registration form will be available on this website soon. The schedule that is currently online is from the 2011 event and may be used as a reference.

Staff

If you are interested in volunteering on staff for this exciting, fun-filled weeken, please fill out our staff interest form.