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LAKE JACOMO Kayaking
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Location: Lake Jacomo
GS Grade Level: Junior-Ambassador Fee: $35/girl Session Length: 2 hours (10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm each day) Group Capacity: 15 Dates: More dates coming Fall 2022! Use the outdoor calendar to find dates and register. |
Join us at Lake Jacomo for a kayaking day excursion led by our trained lifeguards and small craft safety instructors! We'll start with a safety lesson and brief introduction to kayaking before kayaking around the lake! Kayaking experience encouraged but not required.
Badge/Journey Connections: This excursion completes steps 2-5 of the Senior Paddling Badge! Step 1 you can complete on your own or as a troop just by signing up! |
SHAWNEE MISSION PARK KAYAKing
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Location: Shawnee Mission Park Lake
GS Grade Level: Junior-Ambassador Fee: $35/girl Session Length: 2 hours (10am-12pm & 1pm-3pm each day) Group Capacity: 15 Dates: More dates coming Fall 2022! Use the outdoor calendar to find dates and register. |
Join us at Shawnee Mission Lake for a kayaking day excursion led by our trained lifeguards and small craft safety instructors! We'll start with a safety lesson and brief introduction to kayaking before kayaking around the lake! Kayaking experience encouraged but not required.
Badge/Journey Connection: This excursion completes steps 2-5 of the Senior Paddling Badge! Step 1 you can complete on your own or as a troop just by signing up! |
Cadette Outdoor Journey
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Date: 6/28/22-6/29/22
Location: Camp Tongawood GS Grade Level: Cadettes Fee: $50/person Group Capacity: 25 |
The Cadette Outdoor Journey is rich and exciting badge program as it covers a lot of essential outdoor skills. You will enjoy primitive camping in the Outpost Campsite, help clean up and create an outdoor educational trail, cook entire meals right over a campfire, then take part in a Service Project to give back to Camp Tongawood.
In this Cadette Outdoor Journey you will earn four badges: Night Owl, Trailblazing, Primitive Camper, & Take Action In order to complete the entire Journey your Girl Scout will need to attend a pre-meeting via zoom. |
Senior Outdoor Journey
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Date: 8/20/22-8/21/22
Location: Camp Prairie Schooner GS Grade Level: Seniors Fee: $50/person Group Capacity: 30 |
In this Senior Outdoor Journey you will earn three badges: Adventurer, First Aid, and Adventure Camper. You will then complete your Take Action Project on your own to earn your Journey award.
You will enjoy primitive camping in Farmers Field at Camp Prairie Schooner, rappelling off our 40 foot tower, and becoming CPR/First Aid certified if you are not already. This Journey weekend is open to Seniors. |
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Date: 7/25/22-8/1/22
Location: Ely, MN GS Grade Level: Cadettes-Ambassador (must have completed 6th grade at time of trip) Fee: $875 due by March 16th ($175 deposit due at time of registration) Group Capacity: 12
Checkout this Video from GSUSA’s Destinations - Girl Scouts in the Quet | Boundary Waters Adventure
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Accessible primarily by canoe, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota is one of America's most beautiful and remote places. Its vast wilderness extends 150 miles along the U.S.-Canada border, covering approximately 1,098,000 acres with over 1,100 lakes and 1,500 miles of canoe routes. To truly understand this incredible destination, you have to come experience it for yourself.
After a day of training, packing, and planning, you will paddle north to Canada where you will spend 5 days paddling and portaging through the wilderness. Trained Girl Scout canoe guides offer the tools and coaching to make the expedition crew succeed at their adventure and are experts at bringing out the best in every girl. Participants should be dropped off at the GSKSMO council parking lot no later than 7:30AM on 07/23/2022. We should arrive back at the GSKSMO parking lot around 6:30PM on 07/31/2022. General Itinerary: (Subject to Change)
Pre-Trip Planning Meetings, Basic Canoe and Water Craft Safety Meetings, Basic Wilderness First Aid, and American Red Cross CPR and First Aid Training included - These will held beginning in March through the beginning of July (scheduling will be decided on as a group). Girls will be required to come at least 2 canoe skills practices and 1 general packing meeting. Dates will be dependent on the availability of the overall group. |
Excursions & Journeys Returning Soon
Devil's Den Backpacking Excursion
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Girls backpack a total of 15 miles over the course of 3 days and primitive camp 2 nights. Breakfast, lunch and snacks are included. Girls should bring 2 dehydrated meals for dinner (meals that only require the addition of boiling water - Mountain House are the recommended brand, if you have a food sensitivity or allergy check out Good To Go Backpacking and dehydrated camping meals).
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Senior & Ambassador Outdoor Journey
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In this Senior & Ambassador Outdoor Journey you will earn three badges: Adventurer, First Aid, and Adventure Camper. You will then complete your Take Action Project on your own to earn your Journey award.
You will enjoy primitive camping in Farmers Field at Camp Prairie Schooner, rappelling off our 40 foot tower, and becoming CPR/First Aid certified if you are not already. |
Winter Snow Adventure Excursion
Girls stayed the evening at Camp Prairie Schooner spending evening getting to know one another, making dinner, and enjoy a winter themed movie. The next day they traveled to Snow Creek in Weston Missouri to spend the day Skiing/Snowboarding. Snow Creek offered a handful of hills that catered to any skill level. Prior to hitting the slopes, the leaders made sure each girl feels confident in the necessary skills for skiing and snowboarding. The girls will returned to Camp Prairie Schooner to warm up from their day in the snow and make dinner.
Horseshoe Canyon CLimbing Excursion
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Horseshoe Canyon Excursion 2021
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Known across the Midwest as the best spot for outdoor rock climbing, this weekend was sure to improve Girl Scouts' climbing skills, filled with an expertly guided rock-climbing session and some light hiking.
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