2025 Klondike Derby:
Jan 10-12
The Hunger Games
If you'd like to be super prepared you can watch the movies ahead of time!
Winter fun and competition at the Continental District Klondike Derby! You patrol will pull its sled from event to event competing in various Scout skills, all based on The Hunger Games movies. The event is at Camp Hart but we'll be camping next door in The Fort at Camp Garrison (in a "somewhat heated" cabin).
Depart: From St. John's at 4:45PM on Friday Jan 10 (try to arrive by 4:30). Check in with the Registrar Scout, get your car assignment, and put your things in that car immediately. If there's no room, put your things in the trailer.
Return: To St. John's at Noon on Sunday Jan 12
Location: We're arriving at and camping at Camp Garrison, directions here ==> MAP TO GARRISON. We'll be camping in The Fort (and not sharing with any other troops). See the following image below for additional details on how to get to the Fort from the parking lot.
The Klondike Derby takes place at Camp Hart during the day on Saturday (5 minutes from where we're staying). If you arrive after 8AM Saturday you should go directly to Camp Hart ==> DIRECTIONS (GPS: 40.36458,-75.426915). Call a Troop 98 leader's cell phone if you can't find us right away. If you can't reach us find the Troop 98 Headquarters at the Dining Hall. If you are arriving Saturday afternoon please discuss with a Troop 98 leader where to go.
What should you bring? (Reference the Cold Weather Camping Checklist)
Warm clothes in layers (you'll be outside all day: wool, fleece, a wooly hat, not a ballcap, two pairs of gloves)
Good boots or shoes (the Klondike people specifically said NO SNEAKERS) with warm socks (wool over cotton is best)
A small backpack or sling bag to carry around your things during the day on Saturday (the cabin where we're staying is a couple of miles from where the events are so you have to carry your extra things with you)
No Scout uniform required
Bring a full change of clothes; you may need it on Saturday evening
A flashlight or headlamp
Scout Handbook for Reference
Method to start fire (like tinder, kindling, and flint and steel)
Compass
Handkerchiefs
Rain gear, a compass, your Troop 98 Permission Slip (to be sent later). Check the weather forecast as it's possible that it will snow on Saturday. Be Prepared.
Eating gear and a cup you can carry with you during the day (for hot cocoa in the dining hall at Camp Hart). Put your name on everything.
Meals are being planned and prepared by Troop 98. You and your patrol may be asked to help with meal tasks, but you only need to bring eating gear and a refillable water bottle, plus maybe some nutritious snacks to munch on during the day (granola bars, trail mix, dried fruit). Remember that several Troop 98 Scouts have peanut and tree nut allergies. Make sure you don't share any nut-based foods with anyone unless you check first.
We will be sleeping on bunk beds in a heated cabin but it's not going to be super warm. Bring your warmest sleeping bag (or two sleeping bags), warm (and clean) clothes to sleep in (like sweats) plus a clean hat, gloves and socks to sleep in, an extra blanket that you could put above or below you (wool is best), and at least one sleeping pad to put underneath you.
Cards, board games or something else you can play inside the cabin at night (nothing electronic)
If you want to know what the events are going to be like (and what to practice and bring) check out the patrol leader's guide and competitions flyer here: GUIDE
PATROL LEADERS (or Acting PLs) should BE PREPARED with all of the items listed on Page 4 of the guide, plus the "bonus points" for patrols listed on page 3 of the guide. We will be preparing some of this at the troop meeting on Friday January 3rd.
Pictures from prior year Klondikes are here: 2024 Klondike • 2023 Klondike • 2018 Klondike • 2019 Klondike
