Insomniacs Revenge
Insomniacs' Revenge 2012
Uncle Sam Strikes Back
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We want you to come to the 2012 Insomniacs Revenge hosted by the Venturing Officers Association. This year’s Revenge is themed Extreme WWII mystery “Dinner” Theater. This weekend mystery adventure starts the night of Friday September 28th and continues nonstop into the 30th. Insomniacs Revenge is known for its unique all night program. Participants arrive late Friday evening and immediately start their sessions and activities. Program runs into Sunday morning, There are plenty of WWII themed sessions planned, including: “Grenade” launch, battle on the seas, field medicine, wilderness survival, blacksmithing, scrapwear, self defense training, knot tying, orienteering, archery, WWII weapons, climbing and repelling, monkey business, zip line and much, much more! Each session will give your crew a clue to help solve the mystery. The big mystery dinner will have you right in the middle of the action. The Revenge also incorporates a Cardboard Regatta, where your crew can pre-build your own cardboard and duct tape boat big enough to carry at least 3 crew members.
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| When: | September 28-30 |
| Where: | Goose Pond Scout Reservation |
| Price: |
$30.00 per person $35.00 After September 21 $50.00 Day of Revenge |
| No partials & no refunds. | |
Cardboard Regatta:
What’s more Pirate like than a boat race? Contestants make their cardboard boats prior to coming to camp. Deadline for the Regatta sign up is September 17th.
The Official Regattta Rules: Located Here. It must be able to carry 3 crew members.
The list of events include: Other activities may be added based on registration number but all these activities will take place.
- Artillery Launch
- Commanders Challenge
- Field Medicine
- Resistance Knife Making
- Judo - Self Defense
- Orienteering
- Scrapware
- Enigma Code Breaker
- Tree Top Zip Lines
- Water Rescue Kayak
- Era Weapons
- WWII Theater Dinner
- WWII Monies
- Air Raid
- Solve the Mystery!
Food is provided - the menu is:
Friday night - light snacks only
Saturday -
Breakfast -- Provided
Lunch -- Grilled Cheese 2 per person, Tomato Soup, Fruit
Dinner -- Pasta with meat sauce (plain pasta and meatless sauce available )
Salad, Garlic bread, PB&J as well
Night Movie Snacks only
Sunday Breakfast Cereal and All leftovers
DOWNLOAD the Insomniacs' Revenge Flyer HERE
DOWNLOAD the Insomniacs' Revenge Registration Form Here
Venturing Camp
It is with great pleasure that the Northeastern Pennsylvania Council, BSA presents you with the 2013 Goose Pond Scout Reservation Venturing Camp (GPSR-VC) Leaders Guide. This is the third annual Venturing Week at GPSR, a Nationally Accreaded Venturing Camp. The Northeastern Pennsylvania Council is dedicating a week of summer camp for those of us that wear "green;" As a Venture Crew Adviser, I know firsthand the importance of having a camp designed for our Venturing units.
Goose Pond Scout Reservation staff is chartered Venture Crew 720, for the Northeastern Pennsylvania Council, and we take great pride in our ability to have the finest Scouts and Ventures' on staff. There is no finer summer camp staff in the Northeast Region. Since Scouting began 100 years ago, the summer camp experience has been the cornerstone of learning, fellowship and fun. Goose Pond Scout Reservation mission is to continue that tradition.
The Venturing Staff of 2013 will make this year the most diverse series of summer camps in the history of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Council, with camps for Boy Scouts and Venturers. This milestone will be achieved by sound camp management and the program being youth led.
As Advisers of Crews and Ships, we allow our youth to lead our units. GPSR-VC does the same. The 2013 Venturing week will host five treks that have a wide range of appeal. Newly formed Crews can focus on leadership and teamwork, Crews new to Scouting can take have a week dedicated to experiencing both Northeastern Pennsylvania Council camp in our Camps Adventure, for those looking for more high adventure we are offering both out island and camping / hiking treks as well.
The staff of Goose Pond Scout Reservation is looking forward to giving you a week to remember in 2013.
Sign-ups for this program are made by contacting John Sepcoski @ 570-472-3253 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to call or email (preferred).
Please note: Youth can attend this Venture Camp as provisional's. The staff at GPSR and additional Venture Crew leaders will be on staff that week. Both male and female leadership have been secured. So even if you as a leader are not available to attend, the youth still can.
2013 Trek Information
We offer adventure and advancement based Venturing activities. Whether you are on the quest for your Ranger award or just want to have a good time, our Venturing camp is a great place to be. Activities may include: pistol shooting, black powder, snorkeling, scuba diving, wilderness survival, advanced cooking techniques, land navigation, Leave No Trace training, cycling, first aid, rock climbing, and much more!
Venturing camp is full of activity while maintaining a laid back atmosphere. We're really looking forward to sharing these experiences with you.
Part of our Venturing camp treks takes place in an outpost campsite well suited to the activities and adventures you are most interested in. As with all high adventure activities, participants should be prepared for an appropriate level of activity. It is suggested that Venturers and Advisors interested in attending Venturing Camp prepare themselves physically prior to arrival. Participants in the Climbing Adventure should be prepared for moderate hiking with a moderate to heavy load followed by strenuous climbs. Anyone coming to our Out Island Trek should be prepared for all types of water activities. This adventure will include at least one multi-day trip.
Goose Pond Scout Reservation is now offering exciting, new opportunities for Venturers. Our Venturing Camp treks are marked by the same commitment to excellence, high quality equipment, and outstanding service the Scouting world has come to expect of us.
Climbing & Hiking Adventure Trek
Our rock climbing and hiking adventure camp can take you from beginner, intermediate and advanced climbing techniques on world class stone.
Venturers will meet up in our base camp at GPSR to learn basic safety and rope work skills as well as gaining a basic understanding of climbing movement. As these skills are developed, we will travel on a hiking adventure where a Kodiak style 2 day trek will take you through some of the nicest scenery Northeast Pennsylvania has to offer. Periodic stops along the trail will provide you the opportunity to make your own penny stove, cook as a crew, learn wilderness survival techniques, leave no trace, and more.
Once the hiking trek is completed, you will be taken to Acahela Rocks for a fantastic day of climbing natural rocks featured in Boys Life, Magazine.
To cap the week, camp will close out with a full day of advanced shooting sports. The Crew on your trek will pick the shooting sports they want to focus on and we provide the instructors to help you achieve. It’s a blast.
This is a true high-adventure program, one that combines physical challenge with excitement and adventure. If you enjoy climbing and hiking then this adventure trek for you. This is a seven day event.
Council Camps Adventure Trek
Here in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Council we have two camps for you to enjoy.
On the Council Camps Adventure week you spend time at both camps where the action keeps going.
You will have the opportunity to participate in:
- Highlander Games
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Advanced shooting sports
(archery, black powder, pistol, shot gun, and rifle) - Canoe our pond
- Canoe Lake Wallenpaupack
- Tubing on Lake Wallenpaupack
- Team Building Games
- Crew Project
- Climb Acahela Rocks
- Camp Adventure Race
- Backpacking Basics
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This is trek to introduce many of the aspects of the high-adventure nature of Venturing. This is a seven day event. |
Biking & Rafting Adventure Trek
You will be biking and rafting in the river forms the border between Carbon and Luzerne counties, The Lehigh River. Utilizing Jim Thorpe as your base camp for 3 days, you will travel the Lehigh Gorge by Bike and by Raft. Your Biking experience will range from 20 - 40 MILES over beginner through advanced trails. There are level railroad grade trails for beginners and several steep grades for the more experienced biker. You will bike through some of the nicest scenery Northeast Pennsylvania has to offer. Periodic stops along the trail will provide you the opportunity cook as a crew, learn wilderness survival techniques, leave no trace, and more.
To cap the week, camp will close out with a full day of advanced shooting sports. The Crew on your trek will pick the shooting sports they want to focus on and we provide the instructors to help you achieve. It’s a blast.
This is a true high-adventure program, one that combines physical challenge with excitement and adventure. If you enjoy biking and rafting then this adventure trek for you. This is a seven day event.
The Kodiak Trek
Leadership and service to others are two key elements of the Scouting Program. Combine these two elements and you get the concept of “the servant leader.” Servant leadership as a philosophy teaches that the leader works with and through a team to accomplish the mission.
Rather than just talking about leadership, the Kodiak Challenge teaches useable, relevant leadership skills that every youth can use. This is achieved through a six day trek-oriented course providing five leadership skills: Effective Teams, Values/Vision, Communications, Decision Making, and Planning.
Why should I go to Kodiak and how will I benefit from this training?
Kodiak is a unique growth opportunity for Crews or Troops as well as individuals. Complete the course while exploring Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Take part in activities such as: Backpacking, Rappelling, Mountain Biking, Shooting Sports and Geocaching (subject to change.) Completion of the Venturing Leadership Skills Course (VLSC) or Troop Leadership Training (TLT) is not required but is recommended!
Who can attend?
This course is Coed, open to all youth (male and female) who are registered members of a Boy Scouts of America and will be between the ages 13-20 years old by the start of the course.
Out Island Adventure Trek
You think Survivor is tough? Check out NEPA Venturing Week GPSR style. The Out Island Adventure combines camping on the 5750 acre lake Wallenpaupack. The lake is 13 miles long, has 52 miles of shoreline, and is about 60 feet deep.
You will canoe to your campsite, taking all the food, water and equipment used during your adventure. Practice canoeing strokes and rescue techniques.
Later, powerboats will take you snorkelling, tubing, water skiing and fishing on selected days.
A program mate will remain with you for the duration of your trip to assist you in appreciating this unique environment.
After a few days on the lake you will return to GPSR to work on your crew project, do some awesome night climbing with only glow sticks to light your way. Then it’s off the underworld, under the sea that is, for some scuba diving. The package is all wrapped up with a day for shooting sports.
This is a true high-adventure program, one that combines physical challenge with excitement and adventure. If you have strong camping skills and enjoy camping, then the Out Island adventure trek is for you. This is a seven day event.
Holiday Lock-in 2011 (2)
Sounds of laughter and the scent of freshly cooked pizza filled the NEPA Boy Scout office until the late hours of the morning. On December 17th-18th the local ventureres of the NEPA council were holding one of their annual lock-ins at the service center. This particular Lock in was created with the purpose of giving everyone who participated a weekend to remember. Competitions, games, Guitar Hero, Cake, Lego’s, pizza, Good Friends, and even a Surprise Birthday party were all major players in the venturing lock in, which in the end proved to be a blast for everyone.
The first major event that was held was a massive LEGO competition. The ventureres divided into three teams and they set to work on creating the most elaborate structure. Teams had just one hour to try and outdo each other with their Lego building skills. In the end, teams build three different structures of very different capabilities and strengths. The structures ranged from very large, to smaller more detailed structures, to even mobile transformable structures that could change from one thing into another. In the end, it was a tie between all three teams, simply because all of the creations were very elaborate and unique in their own ways.
After a slight break from the Lego contest, the ventures divided themselves into two teams, boys against girls, and held what was perhaps the most competitive event of the night, the Movie Trivia Game. The ventureres gathered around the projector and screen playing a DVD movie trivia game and listened intensively as the host on the screen explained the rules. The teams then competed against each other in a shouting match for eight rounds of yelling out movie titles, actors, scenes and more. In the end the Boys team won with an amazing score of 40 to 0. However, because the game was so fun the Venturers decided to continue on with the TV version of the game, this time with the girls wining, 40 to 0.
By around four or five in the morning, ventureres of all different shapes and sizes could be found stretched out or curled up in a ball in different places throughout the room at the service center. Some brought out sleeping bags and found dark corners to fall asleep in, others just chose to throw on a jacket and fall asleep stretched out face down on the floor. Some fell asleep on a mattress of blankets, others on top of a mattress of backpacks and various objects. Some small faint murmurs of the few remaining awake ventureres could still be heard, softly giggling and laughing about the fun night that had just started to come to a close.
At around ten the next morning, every venturer was awake, cleaned up and ready to go. Breakfast had been served, the VOA meeting had been healed, and all that was wished to be accomplished was complete. Rides started to come and ventureres slowly said goodbye one by one, giving hugs and saying goodbye to old friends and new ones that they had just met. As everyone was leaving it was apparent that no one left without a smile on their face, and plans to make the next venturing lock in even bigger and better than the last.
Holiday Lock-in
The NEPA VOA presents…
The 2012 Venturing Holiday Lock- In
You won’t want to miss this year’s Venturing Holiday Lock- In hosted by the NEPA Venturing Officers’ Association! With activities like:
- Lego Competitions
- Jeopardy!
- Movies/ Video Games
- Cracker Barrels
- And much, much more
The 2012 Holiday Lock in is sure to be an event you won’t soon forget!
The Holiday Lock- In is open to ALL crews in the area, but due to the limited space, we’re capping the event at 50 people, including youth and adults. Deadline for registration is December 7th. The price per person is only $15 dollars for non- VOA members and $10 for VOA members. There is also a special price of $20 for those who want to register for the Holiday Lock in AND pay their dues to join the VOA! Details for this year’s Lock- In can be found below:
When: December 14- 15th, 2012
arrive by 6pm Friday evening
we’ll be out no later than 10am Saturday morning
Where: NOTICE THE LOCATION CHANGE!!
Queen of the Apostles school hall
724 Spring Street, Avoca, PA
Cost: $10 for VOA members
$15 for non VOA members
$20 SPECIAL!! VOA registration and Lock- In cost!!
Registration Deadline is December 7th, 2012
How Many: The lock- in is capped at 50 people, youth and adults. You’ll want to sign up soon!
Menu: A dinner and a breakfast will be provided on Friday night and Saturday morning. There will also be a cracker barrel Friday night into Saturday morning. We kindly ask that you bring a snack (bag of chips/ pretzels, etc.) and/or a pastry (brownies/ cookies (esp. holiday cookies!), etc.) to contribute to the cracker barrel.
You can follow the link below for the 2012 Lock- In flyer/ registration form. To register, you can give/ mail the flyer to the Scout shop at the Scout Service and Training Center at:
1 Bob Mellow Drive
Moosic, PA 18507
Telephone: (570) 207- 1227
Fax: (570) 207- 1232
You can also e-mail us at
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with any questions/ comments. We ask that you fill out the roster on the back of the form with the names of those attending in their respective categories. We hope to see you and the rest of your crew at the 2012 Venturing Holiday Lock- In!
DOWNLOADS:
DOWNLOAD Flier and Registration Form HERE
Lock-in 2011 summary is avaialble here.
Winter Olympics
The NEPA VOA presents…
The 2013 Venture to the Winter Olympics
The 2013 Venture to the Winter Olympics is sure to be the best one yet. Originally an idea conceived by one of our NEPA Council Venturing Crews in an effort to earn their Sports Bronze Award, the Winter Olympics has become an event integrated into the NEPA VOA program and offered council wide. And with fun activities such as:
- A relay race
- Knife throwing
- Fire building competitions
- First aid challenges
- Sports competitions
- Opportunities to complete Sports Bronze Award Requirements
- And many, many more
You won’t want to miss all the fun! Details about the event follow. Cost to participate is only $10 for VOA members, $15 for non VOA members, and, as a winter special, $20 for those who wish to join the VOA and register for the event. Registration for the event will conclude on Wednesday, January, 23, 2013 at 5pm. Sign up soon to reserve your spot!
What: 2nd Annual “Venture to the Winter Olympics”
Who: Venturers in Northeast Region Area 5
When: Saturday, January 26, 2012
Registration begins promptly at 8am -- Event will conclude around 4pm
PLEASE ARRIVE ON-TIME! Arriving past 9am will hinder your ability to participate in our time- sensitive morning events
Where: Frances Slocum State Park
Mount Olivet Road
Trucksville, PA
How Much: $10 for VOA members
$15 for NON VOV members
WINTER SPECIAL!!!! ====> $20 for Olympics Cost AND 2013 VOA dues
Menu: Cost includes lunch for the day
2 hot dogs, a bag of chips, and cookies
Hot drinks (coffee, hot chocolate, etc.) will also be available all day
You can follow the link below for the 2013 Winter Olympics flyer/ registration form. To register, you can give/ mail the flyer to the Scout shop at the Scout Service and Training Center at:
1 Bob Mellow Drive
Moosic, PA 18507
Telephone: (570) 207- 1227
Fax: (570) 207- 1232
Be sure to download our event leaders’ guide, available NOW.
You can also e-mail us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions/ comments. We ask that you fill out the roster on the back of the form with the names of those attending in their respective categories. We hope to see you and the rest of your crew at the 2013 “Venture to the Winter Olympics!”
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