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Mud Camp is the troop nickname for an orienteering campout in November of (I think) 2004. It rained the day before and the first day of. There was no grass in the area we camped in, so it got really muddy. I mean really muddy. Worse, there was no shelter from the rain except in the portapotties; even the tarp used to protect one area didn't work. The building nearby was off-limits. Oh, and every scout that was there had water in his tent. The next day, the sun came out--but the mud didn't disappear.
The skit story is actually pretty good. In 2005, three scouts and two scoutmasters from my troop were at Log Cabin Wilderness Camp in the eastern Sierra Nevada. On the first day, we were asked to provide three skits for a closing campfire. We did--four days out on the trail along the north rim of Yosemite Valley, after a 3.2 mile, 136 switchback (one way) trip to the Valley for lunch (long story) on our "layover" day, the scouts went and talked about skits and the rules and the equipment available. We broke for dinner, then went right back to work. After a long hike the next day, we rehearsed again in the hot tub at base camp (Yes, there is a hot tub there--the only one at a Scout camp that I know of. No pool, though.) We wound up doing "CPR", "Caterpillar" (with SM help), and "How to do a Skit". The last one was the hard one. Given five rules, we came up with a skit to explain those rules without breaking a single one. The rules were (no particular order):
- No physical humor
- No water (hard to clean up)
- No insults
- No bathroom humor
- No sexual references
We also added a few of our own, such as "make it original", "never give a skit unrehearsed", and "never, ever resist the stage crew". The best part? The skit is expandable to however many people you have on hand. With three, we had a narrator (who doubled as an actor), an actor, and Skit Buster, who punishes rule violations by running on while blowing a whistle. It was a hit with the staff.
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Past teams:
2003-2007: FRC0330 BeachBots
2008: FRC1135 Shmoebotics
2012: FRC4046 Schroedinger's Dragons
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