Order enough mulch for your landscaping needs.

BSA Troop 1970 — serving the community for 40 years, announces our 16th Annual Spring Mulch Sale!  Same prices as last year!

• Premium double shredded & aged oak-bark mulch. 3 cubic feet bags (about 5o lbs) covers 3-foot x 3-foot area 4-inches deep.
• Free curbside delivery in Reston/Herndon/Oakton/Vienna area.
• Mulch delivered during weekend of April 16-18, 2010.
• Tax deductible donation (receipt & quid pro quo disclosure provided).

Download the flyer and print it out. Then fill-out the order form and send it back to us with your check. Make checks payable to: BSA Troop 1970.

Prices list (minimum order is 20 bags):

• 20 – 34 bags = $5.50 / bag
• 35 bags or more = $5.00 / bag
• 100 bags or more = $4.50 / bag

Please place orders before March 20, 2010!  Although we strive to serve all customers we are limited in the amount of mulch we can handle. Once our limit is reached we will stop accepting orders.  Please order early, we sell out every year!

For more information email Mulch Czar Mike Lockwood.

At the base we checked our gear and slept in a cabin. We set out the next day after getting some training in lifting canoes and assembling our gear. We also learned about 6-ply moss. (Ask your scout.) Our first experience of the trip was watching motor boats rescue flipped canoes! Because of rough waves and heavy winds, we didn’t leave until after dinner to brave the stormy conditions. Our first campsite was a beach, behind which there was a swamp full of mosquitoes.

The next day we were glad to be out of there; we did a 3 km portage on our first full day that was extremely hard, especially for those of us with canoes. We camped that night on a very cool island campsite. The next day we went through some rivers and had little portages. We also saw some Bald Eagles. Our campsite was small but cozy. On the fourth day we had to do seven portages, including one with waist deep mud. Along the way we saw a small waterfall. We then camped on another beach campsite, it was camouflaged by bushes and trees, but best of all there was no swamp.

On the fifth day, we canoed past our intended campsite and portaged past the next day’s pick up spot, and tried to canoe to an abandoned Boy Scout camp. Unfortunately, the campsites on our map no longer existed so we couldn’t finish that mission. We went back, did the portage again and camped on the coolest of all the campsites. This one was also an island, but it was bigger and more open; there was a huge rock with a flat top that overlooked the lake that four scouts camped on top of, and the adult camped on a plateau sticking out the side of the island, about half the island’s length from the scouts.

On the sixth day we got to the pickup site after adding an extra half mile of canoeing, we got picked up and spent another night in the base cabins. Our original goal was 50 miles, we wound up doing 75! Our longest distance in one day was 21 miles. The next day we packed up and headed home. While we were waiting for our plane in International Falls, we toured the Boise paper mill. We also enjoyed a great lunch after a week of trail food!

SPL Drew updated the Troops logo to give it a more contemporary look.

The Troop committee has been busy this summer. Vice Chairman (Finance) Neil Bonner has built a new Troop website. The technology is based on WordPress.  Most people associated WordPress with blogging software but recent enhancements to the WordPress system has made it a fully functional web content management system.

This means that several adult leaders can perform updates directly themselves without any assistance from a “webmaster”. Power to the people! Leaders can also directly update the online calendar as new meetings and activities crop up.

The website is designed to be interactive. That means that you can comment on each article or post and place comments in our photo galleries. Anyone wishing to comment must first register on our website. Don’t worry, registration is easy (click here). There is a “widget” on the right-hand side of the page that says, “Participate”, this is where you can log-in and/or register.

As soon as you register you will be sent a default password that you must use to log into our website. After you log in the first time you can change your password to something more easy to remember. Once you log in you can go to your profile and fill in your name and any other items you wish to enter.

Please be mindful that this is a Boy Scout website. Keep the comments positive and clean. Also, for youth protection reasons, please don’t use the first and last names of the scouts. You may comment on a photo and say something like, “Drew looks happy in this picture.” But you would leave out Drew’s last name.

We very much want to hear comments from you about this new website. If you have suggestions on how this website can be improved, we want to hear it!

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