Scouts BSA Troop 65

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Scouts BSA Troop 65 Register for Troop 3065 at https://www.adventureiscalling.org/join/Troop-3065

Troop 65 is made up two units; Scouts BSA Troop 3065 for boys and Scouts BSA Troop 5065 for girls. This linked model allows all youth to share in scouting opportunities at one shared location. Our troop meets Mondays at Our Saviors Lutheran Church, which is also our sponsoring organization. Through monthly outdoor activities, our youth are challenged with developing leadership skills by utilizing the aims and methods of scouting.

Some of our scouts participated in OSAB, Older Scout Adventure Base this week at camp. The scouts are bused to an area a...
08/10/2026

Some of our scouts participated in OSAB, Older Scout Adventure Base this week at camp. The scouts are bused to an area at camp called Flintlock, so we don’t get the opportunity to watch the scouts in their activites. We did get to see some pics of the fun that our scouts had.

We are happy to report that we completed the 80th Anniversary Geocache Challenge! We found all 10 sites around the camp,...
08/09/2026

We are happy to report that we completed the 80th Anniversary Geocache Challenge! We found all 10 sites around the camp, traveling to Voyager, Ten Chiefs, & Family Camp. Our prize was water bottles with the 80th anniversary design on them.

Friday was our last full day at camp. We began the day with Troop 65 leading the opening flag ceremony for Buckskin. All...
08/09/2026

Friday was our last full day at camp. We began the day with Troop 65 leading the opening flag ceremony for Buckskin. All our scouts that participated in the flag ceremony did a fantastic job. We made sure to get a pic of our troop so the bugler. Karl assisted all of the troops with all of the opening and closing flag ceremonies.
Our morning was spent at OSAB and finishing up merit badge work. At lunch, our newest scout was chosen was chosen again to participate in the minute-to-win it game, this time in a penny stacking challenge. Our scout won with a stack of 32 Pennies!
For troop activities we had 9 square, troop shower time and time to pack things up for Saturday. We finished out troop time with our troop reflection with one of the camp commissioners. We talked through what went well, what didn’t, and what we have the ability to change for future camp outs.
Friday evening was closing campfire. We laughed at skits, sang songs and celebrated the accomplishment of scouts in our troop as well as the troops at camp. Some of our shoutouts included: Troop 65 received a ribbon for being a Super Troop, recognized the scouts that participated in Iron Scout, recognized those that have been elected into the Order of the Arrow and a Unit Leader Delta activity followed by unit leader recognition. Many Point also has a tradition of recognizing those scouts that receive the rank of Eagle and come back to Many Point with their unit. This year, Cam and Rachel were recognized with this award.

Thursday adventures! We did many of the same morning activities, OSAB & merit badge classes. At lunch, another of our sc...
08/07/2026

Thursday adventures! We did many of the same morning activities, OSAB & merit badge classes. At lunch, another of our scouts were chosen for the Minute To Win It game, paper-rock-scissors completion. Unfortunately, they were knocked out in the first round.
Our troop activities started off with Archery. Alex, James and Nick all hit the bullseye. Our next troop activity was free time which was spent in camp playing card games by all our scouts. Our next activity was Iron Scout. James from our troop participated in the running leg. He beat his time from last year, way to go James.
After dinner, was free time which was also mostly spent in our site playing card games.
During the week, we have worked together to complete an Anniversary Geocache challenge. Some of today’s pics are from our time searching for our coordinates.

Wednesday’s adventures! It was a memorable day for sure. We started with our typical OSAB, WSO and Merit Badge classes a...
08/06/2026

Wednesday’s adventures! It was a memorable day for sure. We started with our typical OSAB, WSO and Merit Badge classes and added in a Character Challenge activity for morning and mid day activities. At our lunch minute to win it games, our newest scout was chosen to participate in a card stacking competition. After the card stacking ended in a tie, our scout won the paper-rock-scissors competition.
Our troop activities started out with climbing tower. James and Alex made it to the top of the 50ft tower and Peyton made it to the top of the 30ft tower. Everyone worked hard either climbing or belaying.
Our next troop activity was a Chopped food cooking competition. Our scouts were split into groups and given ingredients that they must use to make a meal. One group was given tator tots, ramen, bread, raisins, corn, and orange and an egg. The other group was given ramen, rice, onion, green pepper, bread, raisins and an egg. They were definitely creative meals.
Our last troop activity was pottery. Half our scouts used a pottery wheel while the other hand sculpted their projects.
This year will go down in history as the year our troop got to know the local medical facility. After a visit to the emergency room for an injury, we are back at camp and everyone is doing well. Shoutout to the great staff at CHI St Joseph’s. It was a quick and pleasant experience under the circumstances.
After a good nights rest, all our scouts are ready to tackle Thursdays activities.

A bonus post today!A couple of our scouts have the tradition to get a picture standing next to the Buckskin sign. Today ...
08/05/2026

A bonus post today!
A couple of our scouts have the tradition to get a picture standing next to the Buckskin sign. Today when they went to take their annual pic, the whole troop was with. Everyone participated this year.

*Update: We have learned the air horn sounds throughout the night were actually the from the Many Point Trumpeter Swans!...
08/05/2026

*Update: We have learned the air horn sounds throughout the night were actually the from the Many Point Trumpeter Swans!

Yesterday’s adventures included more Merit Badge work, OSAB, and WSO for morning program. Our afternoon adventures included Aqua Tramp, Fishing, Delta and some of our Order of the Arrow members participated in the OA service project. During our fishing activity, we used an ID-app to check out names of plants. During our hike, we found a Human! Troop 65 did an awesome job with leading the closing flag ceremony. Everyone did their part between the calling, supporting the flag as it’s folded and folding the flag.
It was a much cooler evening with perfect sleeping weather, other than the multiple air horn (bear horn) blows throughout the night.

Troop 65 is off for our week at Many Point! We arrived Sunday to set up camp, got some camp orientation and tours and an...
08/04/2026

Troop 65 is off for our week at Many Point! We arrived Sunday to set up camp, got some camp orientation and tours and an opening campfire program. Monday morning, our scouts were busy at either merit badge classes, Water-sports Outpost or at Older Scout Adventure Blast.
For troop activities we started out with our Super Troop Service Project. The scouts watered the White Pine Saplings that camp had planted around the range area. Between the dry weather and the deer snacking on the trees, some aren’t thriving as well as others.
Our next troop activity was disc golf, however the scouts used the time to check out the Many Point History Center. This year is the 80th anniversary of Many Point! It is so interesting to see how many things change while staying the same.
Our last troop activity for the day was sh***un shooting. Everyone gave it a shot and tried it out, many scouts for the first time. Shout out to Nick, Emma, Alex, Cam, Jeff, Keith, Russell, & Rachel for hitting this targets, many of them multiple times.
We ended the day with a thunderstorm. Everyone stayed safe and had dry clothes this morning.
We have a cooler day ahead of us with more fun activities. Stay Tuned.

Troop Campfire! We invited Pack 65 and we had a flag retirement ceremony just before the rain rolled in. Since our time ...
06/23/2026

Troop Campfire! We invited Pack 65 and we had a flag retirement ceremony just before the rain rolled in.

Since our time was cut short, our cracker barrel of s’more’s and rice crispy bars were made to go.

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9185 Lexington Avenue N
Circle Pines, MN
55014

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Monday 7pm - 8:30pm

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