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Our mission as a summer camp is to provide the best and most effective patrol method program with as much fun as possible. Here are just a few examples of the programs we offer to enhance the patrols of your troop.
Patrol Overnights
Survival Night: See if your patrol has what it takes to survive alone in the backcountry of camp. As a patrol you will be allowed to bring three items that you have chosen from personal or troop gear. Then your patrol will pick, from a supply tent, 5 more items to take with you on your trek. You will be given rations to cook breakfast in the morning. A staffer to help and guide the patrol as an advisor, not to do things for them, will accompany the patrol. “Leave No Trace” will be practiced. This overnight is offered on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. If a Patrol is interested the patrol leader must sign up at the camp wide PLC meeting on Sunday.
Patrol Competitions
Camp gadget: a patrol must work together to build a creative and useful camp gadget. It must be something that the patrol uses in their campsite during the week. If a patrol would like to enter this competition and be judged the patrol leader must register for it at the camp wide PLC meeting on Sunday.
Patrol Spirit: A patrol must present their flag and yell to the New Frontiers staff on Monday evening. The patrol will be judged on creativity and ENTHUSIASM!
Patrol Area Activities
 
From 4:00 pm to 4:30 patrols can take part in a variety of area activities designed to have fun and prepare patrols to work as a team for the Friday Night Event. For a patrol to take part in these activities the patrol leader must sign up for them at the camp wide PLC meeting on Sunday. Please watch this website for a list of activities that will be offered.
The Golden Grommet Patrol
Be one of the elite: The Golden Grommet is the highest award that a patrol can earn at Camp Freeland Leslie. A patrol must prove that they can work together and accomplish goals as a team. Any patrol that earns this rank will earn a hanging golden grommet that can be worn on the pocket of the uniform. The grommet represents team work. A single grommet holding a single stake in the ground will never keep a tent in place, much less make it useful. However, when all the grommets of a tent are being properly used there is nothing that can dislodge a tent. Much like the tent, a patrol can do anything only when all its members are working together and doing their part. If your patrol is interested in the Golden Grommet the patrol leader must register for it at the camp wide PLC meeting on Sunday.
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