Elma BSA Troop 4014

10/13/2026

🚂👻 ALL ABOARD THE HAUNTED TRAIN! 🎃💀

Get ready for some spooky fun!

Scouts from Troop 4014 will be volunteering at the Haunted Train event at the Peninsular Railway and Lumbermen’s Museum in Shelton!

Our Scouts will be helping bring the Halloween scares to life while supporting this fun community event! 👻🚂

🎃 Bring your family, invite your friends, and come enjoy a frightfully fun experience!

⚜️ Community service doesn’t always have to be serious. Sometimes it comes with a few screams! 😱

Check out simpsonrailroad.org for event details and ticket information.

We hope to see you there… if you dare! 💀

10/12/2026

🏕️ Wilderness Survival Weekend 2026! 🌲🔥

Our Scouts spent this past weekend in Boisfort, WA, participating in Troop 222’s Baw Faw Meadows Wilderness Survival Invitational!

Throughout the weekend, older Scouts had the opportunity to sharpen their outdoor skills in the Wilderness Survival and Search and Rescue merit badges. While younger Scouts worked toward rank advancement, and tackle challenges. From practicing essential Scout skills to building shelters and learning what it takes to spend a night in the wilderness, it was a weekend full of adventure, teamwork, and personal growth.

Events like these are what Scouting is all about: building confidence, developing leadership, learning self-reliance, and putting skills to the test in the great outdoors.

A huge thank-you to Troop 222 for hosting and providing our Scouts with this opportunity!

⚜️ Be Prepared. For Life.

09/19/2026

Come check out the Summit Pacific Wellness fair today with Scout Troop 4014 😊. There is lots of stuff to see!

09/17/2026

Troop 4014 is excited to be helping out with this awesome local event this year! Come enjoy a spooky night on the rails and support a great community event.

We hope to see you there!

08/15/2026

Closing Campfire Camp Meriwether

08/15/2026

🏕️ Camp Meriwether – Day 6: Finishing Strong!

Friday marked our final full day at Camp Meriwether, and it was a pretty special way to wrap up an incredible week.

Our Scouts spent the morning finishing up their merit badge classes and requirements. By the afternoon, we really started noticing just how much everyone had grown throughout the week. Teamwork and friendship were shining through as Scouts helped each other, spent time together, and enjoyed their last full day of camp.

Lunch brought the Hullabaloo, where Scouts got to vote for their favorite staff members to be thrown into the lake! At 4:00, we headed down for “The Dunking” and watched the winning staff members get tossed into the water. Needless to say, the Scouts thoroughly enjoyed seeing camp staff take an involuntary swim. 😂

We also had Scouts complete rank advancement requirements today, another great example of the work they have put in throughout the week.

After dinner, the entire troop attended the Closing Campfire, which was especially meaningful this year as we celebrated 100 years of Camp Meriwether.

Three of our Scouts, Lydia, Eli, and Zach, earned the Vi et Consilio Award. Vi et Consilio, the motto of the Meriwether Lewis family, means “By Force and Counsel.” At camp, the award recognizes a Scout’s growth, helpfulness, and work toward rank advancement throughout their time at Meriwether. Congratulations to all three of them!

The closing ceremony ended with each of us lighting a candle (electric ones don’t worry!) and leaving it in our seat as we exited the firebowl. The candles represented the generations of Scouts who have sat in the firebowl during the past 100 years of Camp Meriwether and the legacy we now get to carry forward.

Tomorrow we pack up and head home. We arrived six days ago with a lot of new Scouts, plenty to learn, and an entire week ahead of us.

We are leaving Camp Meriwether better Scouts than we came.

That is what summer camp is all about. ⚜️🏕️

08/14/2026

🏕️ Camp Meriwether — Day 5: Thursday! 🏕️

Thursday was another full day at Camp Meriwether!

Scouts spent the morning continuing to work on their merit badges, and during afternoon free time they headed back out to enjoy the different program areas around camp. We also had some great Scout-to-Scout leadership happening, with several of our older Scouts taking time to mentor our newer Scouts and help them work on rank advancement and basic Scout skills.

📸 A quick note about pictures: We didn’t get nearly as many photos on Thursday as we have on some of the other days. With seven Scouts at summer camp for the very first time, our adult and youth leaders have been pretty busy coaching everyone through camp life, expectations, behavior, schedules, and all the little things that come with learning how summer camp works. Limited cell service hasn’t exactly helped either!

Once we return to civilization and our leaders can actually communicate with the outside world again, we’ll be collecting everyone’s pictures and doing a major summer camp photo dump.

So parents, don’t fret if you haven’t seen many pictures of your Scout yet! There are plenty more photos scattered across leaders’ phones that haven’t made their way to the Troop page.

One more full day of adventure before we start wrapping up another week at Camp Meriwether! ⚜️

08/14/2026

08/14/2026

🏕️ Wednesday | Day 4 at Camp Meriwether ⚜️

We’re a little late getting Wednesday’s update posted because, well… summer camp has been BUSY! We just wrapped up another packed day today, so our Day 5 Thursday photos will be coming tomorrow.

Wednesday morning started with our Scouts heading off to their merit badge classes, continuing to work on everything they’ve been learning throughout the week.

For both lunch and dinner, we traded the dining hall for campsite cooking, giving everyone a chance to slow down, cook together, and spend some quality time as a troop. Some of the best parts of summer camp aren’t always the big activities. Sometimes it’s simply being together at the campsite, sharing meals, laughing, and building those friendships that make a troop a troop.

Of course, the adults had to contribute to the entertainment too. There was an Adult Belly Flop Contest, and yes, we have video evidence. 😂 Keep an eye out because we’ll be posting a Reel of that one!

Scouts also got more time to enjoy one of the things that makes Camp Meriwether so special: the beach! 🌊 There was plenty of time spent along the ocean, including sandboarding down the dunes.

Wednesday finished with a camp-wide campfire program, where troops from across camp performed their own skits and songs. Unfortunately, Scoutmaster Matt was apparently too busy enjoying the evening and completely forgot to take pictures. 🤦‍♂️ You’ll just have to trust us that it happened!

Another full day of Scouting, friendship, laughter, and making memories on the Oregon Coast.

Day 4 in the books! 🏕️⚜️🌊