High Adventure

Each year scouts from Troop 647 are able to go on high adventure trips. Here are some of the trips Troop 647 has taken.

Philmont Scout Ranch

Philmont Scout Ranch, the Boy Scouts of America’s premier High Adventure base, challenges Scouts and Venturers with more than 214 square miles of rugged northern New Mexico wilderness. Backpacking treks, horseback cavalcades, and training and service programs offer young people many ways to experience this legendary country.

Sea Base

There are a number of different Sea Base adventures to go on. One Troop 647 has often done is called Out Island Adventure. Along with your assigned island mate, your crew will paddle a Polynesian war canoe more than five miles to a primitive barrier island located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary for an epic high adventure experience. Some other Sea Base adventures include the Scuba Adventure and the Stem Program.

Northern Tier

In the summer, Scouts from Northern Tier's three wilderness canoe bases explore millions of acres of pristine lakes, meandering rivers, dense forests and wetlands in Northern Minnesota, Northwest Ontario and Northeast Manitoba. Northern Tier crews paddle in almost 6 million acres of exclusively canoe-access wilderness from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) of Minnesota to the Atikaki Provincial Park of Manitoba.

Okpic

At Okpik, Scouts experience a true Northwoods winter. Scouts get to learn how to thrive in subzero temperatures, travel across frozen wilderness lakes and construct their own sleeping structures out of snow. A highly trained staff member, called an Interpreter, accompanies all crews on their trek.