2018 HOSTS & CAMPOUTS

January  18th             Brenda                                 Hall of Fame Cafe
                                                                                                                            

 February   15th          Paul & Diane                      5:30 Captain Luey's

                                                                                                                             Battle Creek, MI  
                                                                                                                            

March  16th             Jim & Cindy    

 

April  24-26                 Southeast District      

       

 

May    15-17                 MSA Spring Campout 

     

June    19-21                 Cindy & Doreen                Leisure Lake        

                                                                          
                             

July    17-19                    

  
                                 

August  21-23              Bill & Debi                          Woods & Water

                                                                                    White Cloud, MI

 

Sept     18-20                 

                                                                         

 

October 2-4                  Brenda & Terry                                                          

                                                                                             

 

 

November                   No Meeting

 

 

December  5                Bill & Debi                                              

 

 

During winter months we meet once a month for dinner and a meeting and in December we get together for a Christmas Party.

 

 

                                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

Setting Up Camp

 

The loaded mini-van pulled into the only remaining campsite. Four children leaped from the vehicle and began feverishly unloading gear and setting up the tent. The boys rushed to gather firewood, while the girls and their mother set up the camp stove and cooking utensils.

 

A nearby camper marveled to the youngsters’ father, “That, sir, is some display of teamwork.”

 

The father replied, “I have a system — no one goes to the bathroom until the camp is set up.”

 

 

 

Reprinted from Love the outdoors.

 

 

 

Funny Camping Lessons:

 

· In a mummy bag the urgency of one’s need to urinate is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing worn. It is also inversely proportional to the temperature and the degree to which the mummy bag is completely zipped up.

 

· The distance to a given camp site remains constant as twilight approaches.

 

· Waterproof clothing isn’t. (However, it is 100% effective at containing sweat).

 

· The area of level ground in the neighborhood tends to vanish as the need to make camp becomes finite.

 

· The width of backpack straps decreases with the distance hiked. To compensate, the weight of the backpack increases.

 

· Average temperature increases with the amount of clothing brought.

 

· Tent stakes come only in the quantity “N-1″ where N is the number of stakes necessary to stake down a tent.

 

· Propane/butane tanks that are full when they are packed, will unexplainably empty themselves before you can reach the campsite.

 

· Given a chance, matches will find a way to get wet.

 

· All foods assume a uniform taste, texture, and colour when freeze-dried.

 

· The weight in a backpack can never remain uniformly distributed.

 

· The probability of diarrhea increases with the square of the thistle content of the local vegetation.

 

All tree branches in a forest grow outward from their respective trunks at exactly the height of your nose. If you are male, tree branches will also grow at groin height.