Somonauk Troop 5

Somonauk Troop 5 Somonauk Troop 5 belongs to Three Fires Council and Potawatomi District. Chartered by the Lions Club.

🦅 Congratulations to Joe on rank of Eagle Scout! (Pending National Review)
01/22/2026

🦅 Congratulations to Joe on rank of Eagle Scout! (Pending National Review)

Congratulations to AJ for attaining rank of Eagle Scout! 🦅
12/10/2025

Congratulations to AJ for attaining rank of Eagle Scout! 🦅

Congratulations to Joe for completing his Eagle Scout service project! The project consisted of sandblasting and paintin...
10/31/2025

Congratulations to Joe for completing his Eagle Scout service project!

The project consisted of sandblasting and painting the bell. Also, updating the brick structure.

The beneficiary is the Somonauk Baptist Church located at 315 E. North Street in Somonauk.

Eagle rank is tentative - waiting on board of review and signature from the National Eagle Scout Association (NESA).

Tonight was the last meeting for Somonauk Troop 5. We are proud of these 4 making the most out of the past few years and...
10/29/2025

Tonight was the last meeting for Somonauk Troop 5.

We are proud of these 4 making the most out of the past few years and always trying out new opportunities. Looking back, all four of you have accomplished a lot! It has been fun to watch you grow since crossing over from Cub Scouts at the age of 11/12.

Unfortunately, with no Cub Scout Pack we have been unable to grow and we will not be rechartering. Three Scouts are aging out (turning 18) over the next few months.

Thank you to Mr. Hockings, Mr. & Mrs. George, Ms. Parkison for pushing through until the end. Also, to those leaders in past years for establishing roots.

Isaac - Tenderfoot - 15 merit badges
AJ - Eagle (pending board of review) - 42 merit badges
Joe - Eagle (pending board of review) - 56 merit badges
Logan - Eagle - 94 merit badges

“Once a Scout, always a Scout.” - Lord Baden-Powell.

Thank you for the memories,

Mrs. Hockings
aka: TRS - The Real Scoutmaster

Final Court of Honor for these four this evening. Congratulations to all! Thank you Adam for joining us this evening.
10/29/2025

Final Court of Honor for these four this evening. Congratulations to all! Thank you Adam for joining us this evening.

Annual pumpkin 🎃 carving. Congratulations to AJ for the creativity win!
10/29/2025

Annual pumpkin 🎃 carving. Congratulations to AJ for the creativity win!

Another 5-B’s in the book. 🐖 🐓
10/13/2025

Another 5-B’s in the book. 🐖 🐓

📅 August 8th- 10th🐻 Wildlife Prairie Park📍 Hannah City, IllinoisDeuces Wild concert 🎶 Searching for sculptures Attempted...
08/10/2025

📅 August 8th- 10th
🐻 Wildlife Prairie Park
📍 Hannah City, Illinois

Deuces Wild concert 🎶
Searching for sculptures
Attempted fishing 🎣
Disc Golf ⛳️
4 mile hike challenge 🥾
Train 🚂
Geocaching 🕵️‍♂️

The weather didn’t cooperate for animal activity. 🥵 Thank goodness for air conditioned recreation building.

Our annual Midsummer Showdown clean up day! 🗑️
07/27/2025

Our annual Midsummer Showdown clean up day! 🗑️

Scouts continued working on the pottery merit badge tonight. Marking off requirement 5b. Painting our past projects soon...
07/23/2025

Scouts continued working on the pottery merit badge tonight. Marking off requirement 5b. Painting our past projects soon.

Meeting tonight at Planet Pizza in Plano. We were able to make our own pizzas, a Tuesday night offering throughout the s...
07/09/2025

Meeting tonight at Planet Pizza in Plano. We were able to make our own pizzas, a Tuesday night offering throughout the summer. The arcade area was a hit.

Ely, Minnesota. Boundary Waters. Headed out at 5am on June 29th. Stopped for lunch at Culver’s. Arrived at North Country...
07/05/2025

Ely, Minnesota. Boundary Waters.

Headed out at 5am on June 29th. Stopped for lunch at Culver’s. Arrived at North Country Canoe Outfitters a little after 3:00. This is our 2nd year using them. We packed our gear, reviewed the maps and stayed at the bunkhouse. Dinner at The Boathouse. We ate here last year.

June 30th- Day 1 on water
Traditional breakfast at the outfitters. Paid the bill and then loaded up and set off to the #30 entry point at Lake One.
VERY packed entry! Set off to look for our first campsite for the day. All the spots were taken on Lake One. So we pushed down to Lake Two and found a great site that had an awesome breeze. Started to set up camp and were sitting down to put our fishing poles together, we realized we forgot poles back at the second portage from Lake One to Lake Two. OOPS! Luckily they were still there. Lunch was salami sandwiches. It started to rain. After the rain we tried fishing. This spot was not ideal for fishing off the bank. Mr. George caught a small walleye. Dinner was steak dinner, corn and chocolate pudding.

Day 2:
Breakfast was fresh eggs and bacon. We decided the night before we were gonna have a paddle day and get to the Kawishiwi River. The river had a few areas of rapids. After that we just had a Long day of paddling into the wind to our next campsite. Lunch was peanut butter & jelly sandwiches.
Had pretty awesome cranberry wild rice brats, green beans and lemon pudding for dessert. We think we covered at least 8-9 miles.

Day 3:
Today was Tex mex for breakfast which is always a good choice. We set out for a great day of fishing. Well what we thought was gonna be good turned out to be horrible. By lunch there was only a couple of northerns caught and a blue gill. Nothing of size to keep for cooking.
Lunch was grilled cheese. We had enough cheese and bread for everybody to have 4 sandwiches each. Yes 4 sandwiches!
Afternoon fishing was lousy as well. Glad we weren't needing fish to survive. Dinner was stroganoff with peas and banana cream pudding. Delicious. Ask us about the ground squirrels, Jerry, Larry and Terry. We are moving closer to the exit home tomm to leave us closer to the outfitter.

Day 4: Two fishing poles were lost in the river this day. OOPS! Ramen for lunch and beef stew for dinner. We found a snapping turtle and named it Kitten. A LOT of portaging this day. Scoutmaster said today was 💩.

Day 5: 4th of July! We arrived at our exit point (Farm Lake) early and after discussing plans we held a vote and we chose to head home a day early.
Lunch at a Chick-Fil-A and arrived home.

📸: Brian
Some photos taken from GoPro video.

Overall take, is that they preferred the route last year and liked the 7 days than the shorter trip this year. They would try another outfitter next time.

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315 E. North Street
Somonauk, IL
60552

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