Handicraft

Do you like to make things with your hands? The Handicraft Lodge is the place for you! The Handicraft Lodge offers instruction in skills such as leatherwork, woodcarving, sculpture, basketry, and art. For Cub Scouts, a special craft is selected that fits that year's theme.

Register for Pico Blanco 2011

You can register for a great summer camp experience at Pico Blanco this summer by filling out one of the following forms:

Boy Scout Troops:
http://mbacbsa.org/Camping/2011%20Summer%20Camps/~/media/72D197CDC40B4403928B4FD243C4983E.ashx

Cub Scout Packs:
http://mbacbsa.org/Camping/2011%20Summer%20Camps/~/media/D49F3D126C7342079F43261FB3F45D75.ashx

(Updated to reflect new website)

Skills Patrol

The Skills Patrol area is part of Scoutpost and is an area for the first-year Scout. Experienced staff form participants into patrols and work with them on their essential Scouting skills such as knots, lashings, cooking, first aid, and citizenship. The staff is here to not only help Scouts with advancement but also to make sure that the Scouts don't just "pass off" requirments and know how Scouting is done. Each session is run like a troop meeting with an opening, skills instruction, and activities.

This photo is of a flagpole built by members of the 2007 Scoutpost staff so that new Scouts can practice flag ceremonies and learn about citizenship.

This first year program, which is now a mandatory standard for the accredidation of a Scout camp, began in the 1980s here at Pico Blanco.

Where is Pico Blanco Scout Reservation?

Our Lord's Candle Above the Pacific

A Sunny Afternoon on the Waterfront Trail

Support for Leaders: The Commissioner Area

Last summer, Pico Blanco reorganized its commissioner program so that it could better deliver programing to units. A major change was the creation of a centralized "Commissioner Area", located in the middle of camp between the waterfront and the volleyball courts.

Not only is the area home to two commissioners but also it is a meeting place for unit leaders to recieve training, learn new outdoor skills such as outdoor cooking, morse code, and knots, and also to socialize and share camping tricks, talk about new places to explore, and sometimes just shoot the breeze.

In addition to the central commissioner area, there are several "satelite" tents around the camp where other commissioners stay so that they can assist units.

The commissioners' primary jobs are to ensure that troops are receiving the support they need to deliver a quality Scouting experience for their boys.