Backpacking Trip with Troop 9 (Hoosier National Forest) at Pate Hollow

Mr Alcalde enjoys Backpacking, and it's a great way to enhance your skills at packing everything for a weekend on your back.  He enjoys it so much, and because of the Troop's recent experiance going to Philmont and extensive shakedowns, we have specifically been asked to help Explain, Demonstrate, Guide and Enable Troop 9 from the Eastside of Indianapolis how to backpack.  This is an opportunity for our youth too empart their knowledge onto others and to demonstrate how we can work coheasively as a unit. 

Over the weeks leading up to the trip, we will should be discussing many aspects of backpacking.  We have equipment that can be borrowed, like packs and tents.

Backpacking Tips and Thoughts from ASM Jackson and the troop.

Trip Agenda

• Meet at Trailhead at 9 AM on Saturday
  • Troop 306 to leave from Hut
  • Troop 9 to leave from Irvington UMC
• Total backpacking trip will be approx 6 miles (4 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday)  
• Those backpacking will need to pack Saturday lunch, Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast (plus snacks)
• All supplies must be packed in and out
• Each scout is required to pack their own meal
• We will have a chapel service on the trail Sunday morning

The trailhead is located directly behind the Paynetown State Recreation Office, just west of the Indiana Conservation Officer Headquarters.

Maps

• 2019 USDA Map in B&W
• 2015 USDA Map in Color