Staff Guided

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Advanced Search & Rescue (TLS): 2 hours Offered Daily: 2 or 3pm

In this adventure, scouts will have to track down and rescue a stranded and injured person! Using nothing but the materials provided to them and their years of scouting experience, scouts will have to do everything in their power to save the target before the clock runs out!

Archery Skeet (TLS): 1 hour Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30 pm

Bored of plane target shooting? Try your hand at archery skeet. Add the elements of a moving target to your archery experience.

Black Powder Rifles Bonanza (TLS): 1-2 hours Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30 pm

Come over to the NeXus shooting range at T.L. Storer and unleash the beast that is a black powder rifle! Shoot at the provided targets, or even bring your own paraphernalia to shoot at if you so choose! Got an old handkerchief? Shoot it with a black powder rifle! Have a fruit or vegetable you particularly dislike? Shoot it with a black powder rifle! Get a hideous sweater from a family member for your birthday? You know what to do!

Chalk Ball (TLS): 1 hour Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

A new take on an old favorite, chalkball gives all the thrills of action archery using high powered chalk guns. Come follow our course and see if you can make your mark, pun intended.

COPE Games (TLS): 1-2 hours Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

Looking for a fun new way to challenge your patrol and grow as a team. Test your skills and strengthen your bonds in this fun patrol oriented experience.

Cove Expedition (WTC): 1-2 hours Offered Daily: 9, 10, or 11 am and 2, 3, 4, or 6:30 pm

Learn about the unique ecosystems of the NeXus and visit one. Where the water meets the land you will find plants, animals and MUD! Be prepared to get messy because you won’t be clean until the free swim afterwards. Join the mud fight, discover the wildlife, and enjoy this one of a kind adventure.

Caving Tower Challenge (TLS): 1-2 hours Offered Daily: 2, 3, or 6:30pm

Scouts will need all of their combined strength and wit to overcome this all-new addition to the NeXus ropes course at T. L. Storer! Rappelling, climbing, ascending, and more, scouts can take on the Caving Tower Challenge and try and navigate the vertical one-of-a-kind tower maze!

High COPE (TLS): 2-3 hours Offered Daily: 2pm

Gather your patrol and use the skills you learned in Low COPE to take on the High Ropes Course at T. L. Storer. Climb, swing, balance, and maneuver your way to victory 30 feet in the air! Note: This program is only offered to units that have completed the Low COPE RARE Adventure.

Knife Thorwing (TLS): 1 hour Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

Tired of your Scoutmaster yelling at you for throwing knifes in the site? Head over to the TLS shooting ranges and practice your throwing skills with direction from our skilled instructors.

Low COPE (TLS): 2 hours Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

Perfect for Troops and Patrols who want to be pushed into that next step of teamwork and leadership, or at least Troops and Patrols who want to come down and have tons of fun. This program is personalized to best suit the needs and goals of the group. Give the low ropes course a shot and try to conquer the many elements using teamwork, or squabble amongst yourselves and risk losing it all! Troops that complete the Patrol COPE challenge will be able to return later in the week to take on the High Ropes Course at T. L. Storer, navigating an obstacle course 30 feet in the air!

Melon-Chunkin: (TLS/WTC) 1-2 Hours Offered Daily: 9am (WTC) and 2pm (TLS&WTC)

Like watermelon? Like engineering cool devices? Like watermelons launched from catapults? Get your troop or patrol together to build a device capable of launching a watermelon down range to a target. Special points will be awarded for ingenuity in the launching device. Construction outside of camp is encouraged!

Milk Crate Challenge: (TLS) 1 Hour Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

Think you got the skill to pay the billz? Tackle the milk crate challenge and make it up onto the catwalk with nothing but milk crates. Sounds simple enough until you're standing 17 milk crates high and you feel a gentle breeze. So I guess there's only one thing to ask, Got Milk?

Mysteries of the Black Gum: Wah-Tut-Ca Backwoods 5-Mile Hike (WTC): 3-4 hours Offered Daily 9 am or 2 pm

Hike through the backwoods of Wah-Tut-Ca and learn about some of North America’s oldest indigenous trees and so much more. This hike will help you to appreciate and experience the nature of the NeXus.

Native American Pioneering (TLS): 1-3 hours Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

Come and experience the building techniques of the Native Americans as we construct wigwams and learn from the original pioneers in our new Indian Village.

Nocturnal Life: Wildlife Safari Expedition (TLS): 1-2 hours Offered Mon-Thur 8:30pm

Take an expedition out at nighttime and experience the diverse nightlife of your camp! While you won’t find many clubs, restaurants, or concert venues as a part of the nightlife, what you will find is incredible nocturnal ecosystems right outside your tent flaps!

Paddle-Board Jousting (TLS): 1 hour Offered Daily: 2,3,4,6:30pm Ready, set, go, SPLASH! Mount your paddle-board, arm yourself with your staff, and try and knock your opponent into the water. Last man standing wins!

Tomahawk 21 (TLS): 1 hour Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

Mind games won’t do you any good here…. Scouts will need precision and a good arm to get to 21 in this variation of Blackjack! Line up and challenge your friends to split playing cards from a distance, throwing tomahawks as precisely as you can! How close can YOU get to 21?

300ft Zip Line (TLS): 1 hour Offered Daily: 2, 3, 4, or 6:30pm

Ever wondered what it was like to soar through the air? This is your chance. Open again this year the TL Storer Zipline. Experience the TL Storer COPE Area like never before.

Red Zeppelin Ride

Do you want to go for a ride on the fastest boat on Northwood Lake? Well, if you do this is the Rare Adventure for you! Does the patrol want to go tubing? Or does the patrol want to go water skiing? Maybe the Adult patrol wants to go on a leisure ride around the outskirts of the lake looking for their dream home! The choice is yours.