Scouting for the summer

Posted Wednesday, September 4, 2013 12:56 pm

Matt Baxley, left, cleaned up his quarters with tentmates Chris Murray and Nick Pandolfo.

Courtesy Troop 40

Jake Camarillo tended a roaring fire.

Courtesy Troop 40

Owen Clark helping with wash station roof repairs.

Courtesy Troop 40

Thomas Norton, far left, learned some Scouting basics with Nick Pandolfo, Chris Murray, Shane Kennedy and Matt Baxley.

Courtesy Troop 40

They were prepared: Boy Scouts Dan Schroeder, far left, Jack Kelly, Dan Varney and Luis Jimenez-Franco, of Rockville Centre's Troop 40, readied for a day of fishing, swimming, and hiking at Onteora Scout Reservation in Livingston Manor, N.Y.

Courtesy Troop 40

Rockville Centre’s Troop 40 spent two weeks at Onteora Scout Reservation in Livingston Manor, NY this August. Onteora — a Lenni-Lenape word meaning “land in the sky” — stretches over 1.400 acres in the Catskills and is owned and operated by Nassau County’s Theodore Roosevelt Council.

Young Scouts earned merit badges and learned how to build fires, find north without a compass and lash logs together, while older Scouts enjoyed day hikes and worked on service projects to benefit the camp and its surrounding area.

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Scouting for the summer

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