Taughannock District
Baden-Powell Council, BSA
Camping

Our Website Has Moved

If you're reading this notice, you have an out-of-date bookmark.

While we have had the TompkinsCortlandScouts.org domain name for many years, we never really had a place to put the website. The domain was actually just an alias for some other website. So, every time you accessed TompkinsCortlandScouts.org, some other address appeared in your browser's address bar - mostly, home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/, which is the space my cable company gave me, but sometimes www.bpmlegal.com, my office website -  and if you bookmarked the site, you wound up bookmarking the actual address, not TompkinsCortlandScouts.org. Worse, htva.net only gave me 20MB of storage space, total, so we were very limited in how much we could post on that site.

Thanks to Mark Travis of Pack 197 and Good News Computing, the Taughannock District Website now has a real home, and oodles of space to live in (one "oodle" = several gigabytes). And, thanks to a suggestion from Oliver Habich of Troop 4, we also have a shorter, easier-to-type domain - TCScouts.org  - two names, the same website.

What this means to you is:

• Old Bookmarks won't be right: If you have any bookmarks in your browser for any of the pages in the Taughannock District Website, they probably point to the actual site of the old page, not the new site. So, you'll need to...
• Change your Bookmarks: At least in Firefox or IE, that means right-clicking on the bookmark, click on "Properties" and change the part of the address which says "home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/" or "www.bpmlegal.com" to --www.TCScouts.org-- or --www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org-- (either will work, if you're lazy like me, use the shorter one). The rest of the address remains the same.
  So, "http://home.htva.net/~wb2jwd/announce.htm" becomes --http://www.TCScouts.org/announce.htm --
• Or, save new bookmarks: If you don't want to edit your old bookmark, you can always follow one of these links http://www.TompkinsCortlandScouts.org or http://www.TCScouts.org , find the page you want, and save a new bookmark. 
• The old website will be taken down after January 1st, and all of the pages will be set to redirect to the new server. So if you don't update your bookmarks now, now you can always follow the forwarding link and save a new bookmark later on.

Click Here to Access the New Web Site

Yrs. in Scouting,
Mike Brown
District Commissioner

Cub Scout Camps

Baden-Powell Council web page on Cub Camping

Cub Day Camps

2012 dates and locations will be announced in late 2011

Online registration for Cub Scout Day Camp is available! To access this exciting new feature you just follow these steps:

1. go to www.bpcouncil.org
2. click on the camping tab located on the top
3. look under cub scout camping section and click on the online registration line.
4. choose the camp you want and scroll down until you see the register button.
5. click on the button and begin the registration process.

If you would like the Day Camp Committee to do a short presentation at a pack meeting you can e-mail Angela Schmidt at aschmidt@tstboces.org to set up a date.

Cub Adventure Weekends

October 1 - 2, 2011 - In The Spotlight - Camp Barton - see Activities Page
October 8 - 9, 2011 - Wild West - Camp Tuscarora

May 5 - 6,  2012 - Camp Barton
May 12 - 13, 2012 - Camp Tuscarora

Cub Resident Camps

Cub Scout Session #1 July 30-August 1, 2012 Camp Tuscarora Only
Cub Scout Session #2 August 2 - 4, 2012 Camp Tuscarora Only
Cub Scout Session #3 August 9-11, 2012 Camp Barton - "The Hunt for the Barton Grail" - NOTE: the dates for Barton Cub Resident Camp from the Council Calendar are changed to August 9-11. 

Boy Scout Camps

Baden-Powell Council operates two Scout Camps: 

• Camp Barton, BSA - our Council camp on Lake Cayuga 

• Tuscarora Scout Reservation - our Council camp in the Catskills

Summer camp packages for the 2011 camping season will be mailed to Scout leaders in mid February. When they are available, the brochures and other information and forms can be downloaded from the Council Forms page. 

Download a summer camp brochure here (PDF)

Need help to go to camp? Download a Campership Form and submit it to the Council Office right away!

Camp Dates for 2012: 
Week #1 July 1 - 7, 2012 Camp Barton & Camp Tuscarora
Week #2 July 8 - 14, 2012 Camp Barton & Camp Tuscarora
Week #3 July 15 - 21, 2012 Camp Barton & Camp Tuscarora
Week #4 July 22 - 28, 2012 Camp Barton & Camp Tuscarora
Week #5 July 29 - August 4, 2012 Camp Barton Only