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Polar Cubs is a unique winter program for Cub Scouts and their families, held at Gardner Dam Adventure Base in February 2023. Campers will be grouped into “Super Dens” keeping those from the same Pack together. Led by staff members, these dens will rotate through various outdoor winter adventure focused activities. Overnight registrations include a bunk in one of our heated cabins (with indoor showers and restrooms), meals, and a participant patch. We offer two weekend options so you can conveniently fit this event into your family or Pack schedule.

Arctic Adventure is a winter adventure program for Scouts BSA and Venturers with a variety of outdoor and indoor activities. Enjoy the pristine Northwoods winter environment at Gardner Dam Adventure Base or Camp Hiawatha with the freedom to do nearly any winter activity you want like snowshoeing, cross country skiing, broomball, outdoor hiking, sledding, and much more! Overnight registration includes a bunk in one of our heated cabins, meals, and a participant patch. Also, back again is the new and exciting Ice Climbing Adventure, based at Camp Hiawatha in Munising, MI. You will have three weekend sessions to choose from in February and March 2023.

Looking for something different? For those attending Arctic Adventure at Camp Hiawatha on February 17-19, 2023, consider signing up for a guided Ice Climbing Adventure! Space is limited for this excursion and participants MUST be 14 or older AND meet the BSA height and weight guidelines to participate. Cost is $200 and includes lodging, food, transportation, all equipment, and guided training. See more details in the event flyer.

Calling all Cub Scout leaders! Pi day is an awesome STEM event that takes place each March. It is open to all Scouters from Lions to leaders. To make this event happen, we need you -- enthusiastic and wonderful volunteers who are willing to step up and keep this event accessible.


If you are interested in helping youth in our council, and/or you are interested in pre-purchasing your Pi Day 2023 t-shirt, please complete this FORM. If you have any other questions, please reach out to Amanda Tuttle. Event registration will be announced soon.

Join us at Maple Syrup Open House, where we will build, explore, taste, touch, race, hike, feel the sun, and have all kinds of fun for the whole family! Activities and programs are designed for youth 11 and under. Registration includes a pancake brunch with Bear Paw's own Maple Syrup! Follow us on Facebook.

National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is an exciting, action-packed program designed for councils to provide youth members with leadership skills and experience that they can use in their home troops and crews, as well as other situations demanding leadership of self and others.

Pack & Paddle adds value to the NYLT leadership training syllabus by executing the course of instruction in the context of a wilderness backpack and canoe trek, where participants put leadership theory to immediate, real world practice. For many, Pack & Paddle is a mountaintop experience from which they will benefit the rest of their lives.

Members of Kon Wapos Lodge attended the Section G9 and G10 conference at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, WI, on January 21, 2023. Kon Wapos Lodge delegates gathered with 350 Order of the Arrow members from lodges across Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois.


Follow the button below for more lodge information, news stories, and upcoming events.

Whenever we meet with someone, regardless of who she/he is, we start telling a story. It could be what happened yesterday. If a work colleague, what's going on in the office or on the job floor. Often we acquaint story-telling with our grandparents, even our parents, hopefully fascinating enough to listen and learn what was important for them.

 

Bay-Lakes Council scouting has a story to tell; many of them actually. Every GUIDE, you are encouraged to click on the Program link at the top of this page, but we know that not enough follow through to check out all the activities in the coming year. Similarly, there are 3-4 graphics publicizing something that is going on and encouraging you again to click the link for more information.

 

We DO have a story to tell as well, near and far and wide...MANY stories actually. Just tomorrow alone: the Klondike Derby, winter fun in the Gathering Waters District, the Scout Day at Ski Brule in Iron River, and the 75th Anniversary of Klondike Derbies at Camp Hiawatha. Most every weekend, fun and scouting--there for the doing! And, there is still more, especially this summer at our four camps, both new and improved programming and fondly-remembered activities.

 

Is your child a Cub Scout? Head for Rokilio. Scouts BSA? The newly rebuilt Bear Paw Scout camp awaits with additional adventures at nearby Gardner Dam Adventure Base. A wilderness style of camping? Join us at Camp Hiawatha. Speaking of Gardner Dam, it is not just for the best Webelos experience in the Midwest; there will be Family Adventure Camp and special Scout, BSA Adventures for individual youth, ages 11-17, with adult leadership provided. (Scouts can also participate in this program with their families in our Family Adventure Camp.)

 

And, save the weekend for SCOUT FEST, Sept. 22-24, at Bear Paw and Gardner Dam. It will be the largest Bay-Lakes Council event in over a decade as we celebrate 50 years of service to youth in the Bay-Lakes Council. 

 

We have a story to tell: this summer, YOUR SUMMER, will be packed with adventure and unique advancement opportunities. But only at a Bay-Lakes Council Camp. Plan your Summer Adventure with your family today!


Warren Kraft

Program Development

guide@baylakesbsa.org

   

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