Winter Camporee
Please check back for updates for our Winter Camporee
Please check back for updates for our Winter Camporee
Camporees
Camporees
Every year the District organizes two Camp-0-Rees, fall and spring. Generally the cost is $15 to $20 per scout and leader. At every Camp-0-Ree there is a competition of varying types to determine the “honor patrol.” There is a travelling trophey that is passed to the winning patrol at the end of each Camp-0-Ree. The other long time favorite is the “Golden Skillet.” This is another travelling trophey; the awardee is the winner of the cooking competition that ussually occurs on Saturday afternoon.
Day Camp
Cub Scout Day Camp 2025
May 28-30, 2025
Is your cub ready to have three fun-filled adventures as they run, explore, and create? We will have crafts, STEM, BBs, archery, and more outdoor adventures planned! New program updates are included for scouts!
Cost: $125 Early Registration / $150 after March 25th. Late pick-up is $15/day.
Location: Birch Hill Recreation Area
Who can attend? Scouts that will be 5 years of age / entering Kindergarten in the fall (Lion) through 11 years of age and entering 5th grade (Arrow of Light).
Campership Applications are available at Scout office. Adults who volunteer as station leaders or Wolf, Bear, or Webelos den leader for all three days receive $25 off per scout! Discounts will be taken off at the MSC office.
View/download Parent Packet/Individual Cub Registration (coming soon)
View/download Leader Packet (coming soon)
Click here to view/download Campership application
View/download Health/Medical Records
Click here for online fillable Health/Medical Records (ONLY Part A and Part B need to be filled out!)
Cub Scout Day Camp 2021 – Farming under the Midnight Sun
View/download Day Camp Registration Packet
View/download Campership – scholarship application form
View/download Health/Medical Records
Click here for online fillable Health/Medical Records (ONLY Part A and Part B need to be filled out!)
Day Camp June 2020
Friends of scouting
Friends of Scouting
Introducing the 2025 Fund the Adventure patch featuring a “Klondike Derby” an event where participants pull a cargo sled (like those seen pulled by mushing dogs) full of camping gear to 10 different stations (sometimes ¼ mile away) where they are tested on skills mostly used in the outdoors for the lowest total event time and completion of all stations. Kids have lots of fun pulling sleds and competing to build a fire quickest or cook the best pancake on a campfire and much much more!
Moving along the Scout Law series brings us to the sixth coin in the series “Kind” in 2025.
A $250 donation will get this limited-edition coin. Featuring our very own Scouts in action is T65 featured from an actual picture of them competing in the Midnight Sun Council 2025 Klondike Derby! Talk about a great collectable!
Do not wait to send in this year’s donation to secure your coin and fill your plaque (Plaques are also available if you have filled your previous plaque or if this is your first year donating)
For more information contact CJ Stewart via email at clinton.stewart@scouting.org or call the Council office at (907) 452-1976.
Click here or scan the QR code below to donate directly online.
You can also just send a filled out FOS Pledge card (see link below) to the Council office
Click here for a FOS Pledge Card
2025 Fund the Adventure Race to
Nome!
Midnight Sun Council Board Campaign
The Midnight Sun Council Volunteer Board started its annual fundraising campaign to raise funds to support our Scouts’ programs.
This year’s theme honors the famous 1925 serum run from Nenana to Nome and YOU can be part of it.
The Board is set up in four sled teams each named after a famous sled dog.
Balto – The dog who was credited for leading the final leg into Nome
Togo – The dog who ran the most dangerous leg of the run
Fox – According to Leonhard Seppala, was the real leader of the team
Granite – Not part of the serum run, but was Susan Butcher’s greatest lead dog
Pick a team to support by following https://form.jotform.com/250635980581059
or by scanning the QR code below
Donations of $100 or more will be sent the attached patch of an Alaskan Malamute, but any amount is welcome.
Make sure you enter your contact information on the form. So we can get you your patch!
“My Friends, No great endeavor is accomplished alone.”
The time is fast approaching us now for our annual Friends of Scouting presentations to each unit. We conduct this unit level campaign through presentations made preferably at a Cub Scout Blue and Gold banquet, Boy Scout Court of Honor, and Venture parent’s night. Presentations are typically 5 to 7 minutes with time to collect pledge cards.
“Friends of Scouting” is a campaign to provide financial support to your local council. In our case, that is Midnight Sun Council. This support is in the form of a pledge or donation from a company, organization or individual to ensure the financial viability of a council. Each council, including Midnight Sun Council, must raise all of its own funds to support its operating budget. Councils receive excellent program support from our National office but no financial support is provided. Scouting continues to grow and thrive within our council for many reasons, not the least of which is funding. The Midnight Sun Council serves not only the Fairbanks North Star Borough but approximately 279,000 square miles (49%) of the State of Alaska. Each year the Friends of Scouting campaign is conducted annually among the parents of Scouts and volunteer leaders. Families are the ones who see firsthand the benefit of Scouting for their child. District and unit volunteers conduct the campaign in order to give all Scout families the opportunity to support the Scouting program. During the months of January through April, each Pack, Troop, Crew and Post should schedule a “Family” Friends of Scouting presentation. This presentation explains to parents how our Council is financed and educates them about our facilities, camps, resources and funding needs.
Endowment
Endowment
Since Scouting began in 1910, its variety of programs have helped children succeed and has provided a lifetime of memories to each child. The mission of the Midnight Sun Council Endowment Fund is to solicit and receive contributions and dispense funds to assist and support ongoing programs, development needs and operational expenses of the Midnight Sun Council, BSA. The long-range goals for the Endowment is to provide not only a reliable source of the distributable income, but to have the assets positioned and managed to provide for anticipated yearly increases in the needs of the Council.
Midnight Sun Council Heritage Society:
The Heritage Society is the collective group of individuals who have contributed to the Midnight Sun Council’s Endowment Fund. The Fund provides a reliable source of funding to support Scouting programs now and into the future. Membership in the Heritage Society starts with a donation of $250 to the endowment fund. Additional giving levels within the society:
* Heritage Society Member: $250 minimum
* Sourdough Member – A deferred gift commitment to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment
James E West Fellowship: $1,000 or more in cash or market securities to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment Fund. Additional giving levels with this fellowship:
* Grand Teton Member – $2,500 minimum
* Pikes Peak Member – $5,000 minimum
* Mt. Whitney Member – $10,000 minimum
* Mt. McKinley Member – $15,000 minimum
1910 Society: $25,000 or more, outright or in a pledge payable within 5 years to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment. Additional giving levels within this fellowship:
* Ernest Thompson Seton Member – $25,000 minimum
* Daniel Carter Beard Member – $100,000 minimum
* Theodore Roosevelt Member – $500,000 minimum
* Waite Phillips Member – $1,000,000 minimum
The Founders Circle: $100,000 or more in the form of a deferred gift commitment to the Midnight Sun Council Endowment. Additional giving levels with this fellowship:
* Bronze Member – $100,000 minimum
* Silver Member – $250,000 minimum
* Gold Member – $500,000 minimum
* Platinum Member – $1,000,000 minimum
Endowment Emphasis
James E. West Fellowship Award Enrollment
James E. West Fellowship Recognition
Donor Recognitions
Major Gifts Recognition
Winthrop Rockefeller Award
Sporting Clays
14th Annual Sporting Clays
Come out and test your aim
at the Midnight Sun Councils
14th Annual Sporting Clays Event!
You and 4 friends team up and compete on July 25 th , 2026 at the Fairbanks Trap Club. You will shoot
round robin style and compete for first place against other teams. Various door prizes and raffles will be
conducted throughout the event. Make sure to get your tickets before they are sold out!
Event/Ammunition/Food sponsorships are available. The event committee is looking for more help! If interested
please contact CJ (info below) Shooting Team fee of $500 includes lunch, pigeons, and shells.
Team Captains can also sign up by contacting CJ at 🡪 Clinton.Stewart@Scouting.Org or calling (907) 452-1976.
HAVE A LOOK AT OUR ANNUAL SPORTING CLAY TOURNAMENT ARCHIVE
12th Annual Sporting Clay Tournament
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11th Annual Sporting Clay Tournament
10th Annual Sporting Clay Tournament
9th Annual Sporting Clays
due to COVID-19 in the area. The Bison Hunt Raffle drawing was still conducted by VFW Post 10029, along with other drawings for the door prizes for the members of the registered teams.
We’d like to thank all of our sponsors for the event and donors of the prizes. We ask everyone to please visit our sponsors and give them your support: Doyon Utilities LLC, Alaska Railroad, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Big Ray’s, Rod’s Alaskan Guide Service, Pike’s Landing, Bennett Engineering, Arctic Fire & Safety, Iron & Wood, Alaska Ammo, Independent Rental, and Frontier Outfitters.
8th Annual Sporting Clay Tourney, 2019
A little rain didn’t dampen the spirits of this year’s Sporting Clay event held at the Fairbanks Trap Club.
Shall we say, it was a BLAST!?
The first place team went to those representing Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
Money raised will go to help our Council’s programs.
Thank you to our Sponsors:
GOLD SPONSORS:
PRIZE SPONSORS:
FOOD SPONSOR:
7th Annual Sporting Clay Tourney, 2018
The Sporting Clays event was a huge succes this year. A great time was had by all!! We would like to take a moment to thank our sponsors and volunteers for their hard work and dedication.
VOLUTEERS:
Mariko Daly
Megan Stewart
Kevin O’Neal
Some pics from 2017 Sporting Clay Events
Sales Campaign
2025 Midnight Sun Council Sales Campaign!!
You spoke and we listened!
Popcorn wasn’t getting you to your goals. Here is what the fundraising committee voted on…. This year we are selling discount cards, working with MVP/ABC fundraising we put together a discount card you can use here locally to receive discounts at local stores and vendors. Big savings at Cold Stone Creamery, Big Daddy’s BBQ, Fat Burger, The Cookie Jar, Arctic Sun VR, Escape Room Ak, Alyeska
Tire, Friar Tucks Hoogie house, 15 total discounts well worth over the $20 cost. Making this card very easy to sell.
All Scouts need to practice each point of the Scout Law, during fundraising Scouts practice being trustworthy, helpful, courteous, kind, cheerful, thrifty, brave and clean while fundraising for their goals to attend camp, High Adventure and basically fund their Scouting goals! This campaign isn’t just about fundraising, its also built into the program.
Discount Card Sales will start after the cards arrive in the third week of August.
Units, please coordinate with CJ at Clinton.Stewart@Scouting.Org
Distinguished Citizens
click here to view/download 2025 Distinguished Citizen Banquet invite postcard (coming soon)
click here to view/download 2025 Distinguished Citizen Banquet response card (coming soon)
click here to view/download 2025 Distinguished Citizen Banquet Sponsor response card (fillable) (coming soon)
A big Thank you to our Sponsors!!
Past Recipients:
| Earl A. Cook, 1983 | Harry “Red” Porter, 2000 | Bert & Becky Bell, 2015 |
| V. Paul Gavora, 1984 | William G. Stroecker, 2001 | C.B. Bettisworth, 2016 |
| Leo Schlotfedlt, 1985 | Betty L. Everts, 2002 | Karen Perdue, 2016 |
| Grace Berg Schaible, 1986 | Skip Cook, 2003 | Mike & Peggy Ferguson, 2017 |
| Earl Hoover Beistline, 1987 | Mary E. Binkley, 2004 | Jo and Steve Heckman, 2018 |
| Joseph Emil Usibelli, 1988 | Glen Hackney, 2005 | Bernie Karl & Connie Parks-Karl, 2019 |
| Jeffrey J. Cook, 1989 | Richard & Anna Frank, 2006 | Glenner Anderson & Jerry Evans, 2021 |
| Jo Ryman Scott, 1990 | Dennis & Mary Wise, 2007 | Steve Ginnis, 2022 |
| Arthur Stephen Buswell, 1991 | Chuck & Carolyne Wallace,
2008 |
Carol & Jack Wilbur, 2023 |
| William Ransom Wood, 1992 | Jim Lund, 2009 | Gene Therriault & Jo Kuchle, 2024 |
| Richard A. Wien, 1993 | Michael K. Powers, 2010 | |
| Frank X. Chapados, 1994 | Dermot Cole, 2011 | |
| Francis W. McGuigan, S.J.,
1995 |
Terrance Cole, 2011 | |
| Mary Jane Fate, 1996 | Nancy Hanson, 2012 | |
| V. Paul Gavora, 1997 | Robert B. Groseclose, 2013 | |
| Michael T. Cook, 1998 | Barbara L. Schuhmann, 2013 | |
| Paul & Jane Massey, 1999 | Mike & Peggy Pollen, 2014 |
Training Awards
Training Awards
These are some of the training awards that Leaders can earn. There is a pdf version available to print for Pack and Troop meetings. There is more information available on awards for both Cub Scout and Boy Scout Leaders at www.scouting.org.
Where to go camping
Where to go Camping, Hiking or Fishing!
Day Trips for all Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers and Families:
1. Angel Rocks – The 3.5-mile loop starts along the north fork of the Chena River, and can take 2-3 hours to complete. Angel Rocks Handout
2. Wickersham Dome – This 7-mile, out-and-back hike starts out approx. near 28-mile Elliot Hwy (where it splits with the Steese Hwy). The climb might be steep, but the view of the Alaska wilderness is great!
3. Moose Creek Bluff – There is a parking area just off the 1st exit (on the left) off the Richardson Hwy, just past the Chena Flood Control bridge. This hike is considered to be an easy 2-hour hike.
4. Birch Hill Recreation Area – This is a favorite with well-groomed, extensive and challenging trails. The trail system is available exclusively to skiers in the winter, and to mountain bikers, runners, hikers and berry pickers in the summer. Birch Hill Trail Maps
5. Creamer’s Field – This is a unique trail system that allows hikers to see both wild and plant life that would be impossible without it. There are benches and rest stops, and at least two towers to view a majority of Creamer’s Field along the 2-mile trail. Creamer’s Field Map and Info
6. Steese Ponds – These are man-made gravel pits along the Steese Hwy that are stocked annually with grayling and rainbow trout by the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game.
7. Murphy Dome – Murphy Dome is popular with ATV riders and hikers. It lies about 20-miles outside of Fairbanks, off of Sheep Creek Road.
8. Triple Lakes Trail – This trail is 9.5-miles long, about a 5-hour trip one way. The trail starts off steeply at mile 231 of the Parks Hwy, before evening out. There is an excellent view of the Nenana River and Alaska Range as you hike along three scenic lakes!
9. Lost Lake Campground to Moose Pond – This hike begins at Lost Lake campground and follows along the right side of Lost Lake. Go along the spruce bog about 1.3-miles until you reach Moose Pond. Watch for moose, beavers, and more!
10. Ester Dome – From the top of the domes, take the side trails to the south, and look for blueberries and cranberries.
11. Granite Tors – This trail ranges from moderate to strenuous along the 15-mile loop.
12. Horse Shoe Lake Trail – This is a popular 3-mile (round trip) hike starting at 0.9 mile in Denali Park. The total travel time is around 1 to 1-1/2 hours.
13. Ballaine Lake – This lake is just off of University Ave. on the left (from College Rd.). The Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game stocks this lake with grayling, rainbow trout, and Alaska blackfish.
State of Alaska, Dept. of Fish & Game – Southcentral Fishing Regulations
State of Alaska, Dept. of Fish & Game – Licensing & Permit Information
