Webelos Winter Weekend

Webelos Winter Weekend is an annual Webelos event held at Tana Keeta Scout reservation, located in Gulf stream Council and sponsored by Troop 836 of Lighthouse District. The even began in 1986 in the youth area at Jonathon Dickinson State park with approximately 50 participants and continued there for the next three years, until the weekend grew too large for the park. In 1989 WWW moved to Tana Keeta's primitive area at Clear Lake. Participation continued to grow until numbers reached over 400 and again out grew the space available. At this point WWW moved to the main camp where it continues until this day. The program provides both first and second year activities for participants, with about six to eight choices for each group. Second year participants also have the chance to hike the Mike Machack trail. This is a five miler around the perimeter of TK and can be a real adventure. Troop 237's evolvement began in 1990 when we began to provide both adult and youth staffing to the program. Over the years 237 has provided several events, including five years running the evening campfire, however has settled into providing instruction in Dutch oven cooking, patrol camping techniques, backpacking and most recently historic flags for the second year WeBeLoS and team building exorcises for the first year WeBeLoS. The trail is often quite wet and returning hikers return wet and muddy. The Troop intends to continue it's participation at WWW and hope that this premier event will continue to prosper and provide this excellent program to South Florida WeBeLoS.