Logan & I just spent a week (July 14,2008 thru July 18, 2008) at Camp Bonaparte for the Boy Scouts. Bonaparte is 20 miles east of Tonasket, WA and 20 miles west of Republic, WA.I went as an Adult Leader, not the same as a Boy Scout Leader. As we prepared to go, I was not all that excited as I don't find camping to be all that fun. You know with being outside in the hot sun, the bugs, no TV and so on. But as the time got closer, I got more OK with it.
We prepared for the bugs by taking Garlic pills a couple of days before going. I had heard from a co-worker that taking Garlic will prevent more bug bites and ticks. We took the Garlic pills for every meal that whole week. We also stayed prepared by taking a bug spray that had 40% deet. I think the compination worked very well overall as Logan and I came home with a combined total of 3 bites. Other scouts had well over 20 bites and boy were the mosquitos big up there.
As a leader I got to stay in a cabin tent and Logan got to stay with me. We had wooden cots to put our air mattresses on to make it a little more comfortable. We didn't have to go through the extra step of setting up a tent.
The kids had 5 classes each day for merit badges and this kept them busy. I would go to the classes on some days to take pictures and then go either read or play games with another group of leaders (Scott & Marc).
Last year I was able to go with the scouts to camp Fife and didn't like that camp as much as camp Bonaparte. The food was better, but the accomodations were not as nice as Fife. However, when you are camping outside each night to eat inside a nice building doesn't make that big of a difference.
I took a few photos to view below.
