Enter one of the most anticipated events of the year: the Klondike Derby! This year on January 28, Troop 123 and many other troops competed in six events to try to go for the gold, amid the cold! Troop 123’s Plague Knights scored 5th place overall, while the merged patrols Flaming Donuts & Border Patrol snagged 2nd place overall!

Events included rope swing, lashing fire candles, stretcher carrying, trivia, barrel roll, and orienteering. Lunch was served with a nice array of fresh cookies.

Unlike the Winterfest, our Troop did not sleep over at a campsite, and the event wasn’t cancelled!

The clear fan favorite event was the barrel roll. In this minigame, five barrels hold up a large wooden board. The objective is to make the blue barrel in the back go through a full cycle through the barrels and end up in the back again, by rolling the board on the barrels and repositioning the barrels from the back to the front to compensate. This was certainly one of the hardest games at the event, as your entire patrol must stand on the board and not fall off or touch the ground at any point! As close as both of our patrols were to success, it was certainly an absolute blast and required maximum team effort.

January saw two big scouting events as opposed to October’s one and November & December’s zero, and this was the second of the two. Until the next big scouting outing, this is Historian Joe signing out!