Category Archives: Troop Trips

Simsbury’s Scout Troop 175 Enjoys Summer Camp

Each year one of the highlights of Scout Troop 175 is a week-long camping adventure at Camp Mattatuck. Scouts can work on advancement, merit badges and enjoy outside activities like swimming, archery, cooking and rifle shooting. Alex V was selected as the troop's Senior Patrol Leader for...

175 Scouts Take Over Block Island

Troop 175 began the 2018-2019 school year with another fantastic week-end trip to Block Island off the Rhode Island coast. The scouts and their families had a great time with beautiful weather biking around the island, swimming and sleeping under the stars. To see more photos from...

Troop 175 Scouts Hike Mt Washington and Presidential Traverse

The weather could not stop scouts from Simsbury Troop 175 from enjoying an adventurous weekend of hiking in New Hampshire. The weather was a little iffy on Saturday (50-60 mph winds, 1-2” rain and potential for thunderstorms on Mount Washington) The scouts postponed the summit hike...

Troop 175 – Where adventure Runs Deep

Fully certified as Open Water Divers earlier in the week the Troop 175 Immortals Team moved onto night training . Pictured here just before entering the night ocean in Roatan, Honduras the team will swim a couple of hundred yards offshore , descend to 45 feet...