Adirondack Winter Venturee
March 6 - 9, 2026
Check out this all inclusive Winter Venturee! Sleeping in Adirondacks, Gourmet/no - stove/outdoor cooking, hands on learning cooking techniques.
Learn how to sleep in the outdoors during the winter, build your own shelter and sleep in it, learn first lighting techniques, create fire starters, learn knots, how to take care of your cast iron, how to work together as a team to prepare your own food.
Weekend Registration Deadline is February 20, 2026 (all numbers are firm and payment sent)
Day Registration Deadline is February 25, 2025 (all numbers are firm and payment sent)
Question? Contact email is events@evertonscoutcamp.ca
Winter Camp for Howlers, Scouts, Venturers, Rovers
Sleep where you feel comfortable - Cabin (if still available), Adirondack or BYO Tent
Payments can be made via Etransfer to payment@evertonscoutcamp.ca, with the message of your group name and Adirondack in the message (use everton as the deposit password)
Come For The Weekend
Gates open: March 6, 2026 - starting 6:30pm, Pick up March 8, 2026 at 11am
Weekend Cost: $60 per youth, camping, event crest, all activities and food included (first 2 Scouters/Guiders free, $50 each after 2)
Bring: your own dishes, mugs, water bottles, camp chairs, sleds/toboggans with Helmet and personal equipment (personal items and bedding), 10 pairs of socks and what ever else you need to camp outside in the winter. PACKING LIST HERE
Come For Just Saturday
Gates open: March 7, 2026 starting 9:30am
Day Cost: $30 per person (Youth and Scouters/Guiders) - includes food for the day, all activities and event crest
Bring: your own dishes, mugs, water bottles, camp chairs, sleds/toboggans with Helmet and personal equipment (personal items and bedding), 10 pairs of socks and what ever else you need to camp outside in the winter. DAY PACKING LIST HERE
Winter Camping How-To - run sessions with Youth prior to attending camp
We know that not everyone knows how to winter camp. Here are some helpful tips:
Download Winter Camping Tip Sheet
Download Winter Camping Presentation
All the Camp Information:
Review All Winter Camping Information Here
Event ERP: EVENT ERP
Scouter's Manual: Download Scouter Package
Menu
Friday Mug up: Hot dog roast (chicken/beef, halal chicken and veg hot dogs), buns, condiments, hot drinks, water
Saturday Breakfast: Boil in a bag omelet and then pick one - hash brown skillet turkey sausage, hash brown skillet veg or Dutch Oven Baby (blueberry)
Saturday Lunch: Roasting everything - meat, veg, tofu including turkey in a garbage can and roasted beef and Dutch oven dessert (peach cobbler or apple crisp)
Saturday Supper: Dutch Oven me this....Chili, Lasagna, Cowboy Casserole, buns
Saturday Mug up: Cinnamon Buns (oven or tin foil oven or dutch oven) (take back to your cabin)
Sunday Breakfast: Oatmeal Bar - oatmeal, raisons and fruit (in your cabin)
Snacks: Cookies, granola bars
Drinks: Coffee, hot chocolate, tea/herbal tea, cold water, drink crystals
Program
OAS Winter Skills and Winter FUN!
How to sleep outside over night in an Adirondack
Hot Tent Demo
Making fire starters and char cloth
Axe and Knife
Fire Starting
Over the fire gourmet cooking skills - you do the cooking!!
Snow Shoeing
Broomball
Winter Hiking
Obstacle Course
Schedule
Friday:
6:30pm Gates open - Please do not come earlier - refer to Parking Information Sheet
***Toboggan your personal items to your location (OAS Criteria checked off)
7:00pm Set up Campsite or set up bunks in cabins, Evening Programming in your Adirondack/cabin - make fires at campfire pits, bring cards and board games, explore camp
8:00 - 9:00pm Mug up at Activity Shelter for Adirondacks and Cabins will have mug up in cabin bins.
9:30 pm Registration and Scouter's Meeting at Activity Shelter
Saturday:
6:30am Volunteers to start fires to make Breakfast
7:00am Wake Up and get ready for the day
7:30am Prep, Cook and Clean Up Breakfast at Activity Shelter (everyone comes to Activity Shelter to cook breakfast)
Breakfast at Activity Shelter (bring your mess kit and camp chair)
9:30am Day Participants - Gates open, Lower Gate Parking Lot, Registration at Activity Shelter
10:00am Opening - Lion's Lodge Flag Pole
10:15 am How to care for Cast Iron - divide into 2 - 4 groups around Albert Bader Campfire Circle/Activity Shelter
10:30am Prep and Cook Great Feast Lunch - Turkey in Garbage Can, Roasting Meat, Roasting Veg, etc and put on coals
11:30am Prep Duch Oven Dinner - Lasagna, Chili, Cowboy Casserole
12:30pm (Lunch at Activity Shelter (bring your mess kit and camp chair)
1:30pm (or 1 1/2 hour after lunch starts) Afternoon Activities
Round Robin Sessions:
Fire - char cloth, how to light fire, wax sticks, etc - Tent Site E
How to Winter Hammock Camp - Tent Site E
How to Winter Camp -site, equipment, packing, stay warm sleep outside, etc - Tent Site F
Leave no Trace - Activity Shelter
Winter Safety - Water Safety - Activity Shelter Field
How to sharpen your knife - Tent Site E
How to feather logs - Tent Site E
Hot Tent Demo - Tent Site E
Knots - Knot Shack
How to build shelter to sleep in - Knot Shack
5:00pm Put on dutch Ovens for dinner (fire or stoves depending on the day's events)
6:00pm Dinner at Activity Shelter (bring your mess kit and camp chair)
7:00pm Dinner Clean Up, Prep Mug Up and then Free Time
***Day Participants may want to leave after Dinner or stay for mingle around the campfire
8:00pm Mug up in your cabin if it has an oven or rest at Activity Shelter (bring mess kit and camp chair)
8:30pm Back to Adirondacks for night
Sunday:
7:30am Wake Up and Pack self
8:30am Breakfast in Cabins or at Activity Shelter
9:30am Clean Adirondacks/Cabins/Kybo's
10:30am Camp Master Check Out is needed to leave
11:00am Pick up - both parking lots (refer to parking instructions)