Welcome to Troop 845, a Boy Scout Troop serving the Chapel Hill, Carrboro area and exploring the greater Earth area for the last 50 years.  The site can be a big place if you don't know what you're looking for so you can start on the About Us page and maybe move to the photos page next to get a flavor of the epicness.  Also, be sure to sign our guestbook while you're here.

january 25th 2012 - Troop 845 Featured in Council's annual FOS video
The Boy Scouts of America Occoneechee Council just released their 2012 Friends of Scouting video to help with their annual capital campaign.  This year's video features interviews from Troop 845 Scouts as well as lots of photos and video from our annual epic outings.  Check it out.

 

 

December 28th 2011 - Troop 845 Honored
Troop 845 was recently honored with the title of 'best charity event of 2011' here in Chapel Hill.  Following their successful fundraising efforts for the Lineberger Cancer Center with their 2010 cross country bike ride they followed up and again raised money for Lineberger with their thru-hike of the Camino de Santiago in Spain.  For their efforts the Troop was bestowed with the honor of Charity Event of the Year for 2011.  You can read the full article here. 

December 8th 2011 - Flag retired at Merritt's Store
Known around town and the world for their famous BLT's, Merritt's store asked the Scouts of Troop 845 to help them retire the flag that had been hanging outside of their store for years.  So on December 8th an Honor Guard of six Scouts retired a flag in a solomn ceremony behind the longtime Chapel Hill icon.  It started off with some lively blue grass music around the fire and the after the ceremony the music fired back up and was accompanied by some hot dogs.  As always, a good time was had by all.  Check out a full gallery of photos here.

Holden holds the flag while Ryan and Lawton prepare the flag for retirement

 

November 13, 2011 - 658 Appalachian Trail Miles logged by Troop 845
We had quite a crew head to McAfee's Knob on the Appalachian Trail last weekend and to honest we crushed out some trail.  As you can see in the picture we had quite a few Scouts, many of them first year guys, and the whole crew did the entire 14 mile traverse.  A majority of the Scouts logged a few cowboy camping nights and of course the hiking along the ridge from McAfee to Tinker cliffs was nothing short of purely epic. Be sure to check out all the photos.

Troop 845 - McAfee Knob - Appalachian Trail

Recent News: October 23, 2011 - Miles Rosen gets that Bird Scout
Known more commonly as the rank of Eagle, Miles Rosen was ushered into the ranks of Scouting's highest honor during an afternoon outdoor ceremony on a beautiful autumn day in Chapel Hill.  Check out all the photos here.

Miles Rosen Eagle Ceremony

Most epic weekend outing of all time?
On the weekend of October 14-16 2011, Troop 845 took a mountain biking trip that is being hailed as possibly the most epic weekend trip of all time.  Bold statement you say?  The weekend started with a few hours of trail building, helping the Warrior Creek area near Wilkesboro, NC add a new loop of single track.  We then crushed out 12 miles of groomed and engineered single track mountain biking on the renowned Warrior Creek Trails, then followed it up with 12 more miles of single track on the Over Mountain Victory Trail, only to return home to Chapel Hill completely exhausted.

Warrior Creek Trail Maintenance Crew

 

After 37 days on trail and 546 miles of hiking we made it.  The Camino threw a lot of tough days at us with long hot stretches in the Meseta, rainy passes in the mountains, countless 30km+ days in a row, and a variety of other fun obstacles, but our crew  kept our spirits up and in the end we prevailed.  On July 22, 2011 we stolled to the high sea cliffs of Cabo Finisterre and celebrated our completion of the Camino de Santiago and also the completion of the longest backpacking trip in Boy Scout history.  For a full accounting of our journey, take a browse through our extensive photo page, the trip journal, or our full trip blog on www.ElCamino2011.com.  We're also still raising money for the UNC Lineberger Cancer center so you still have time to donate on our site.

Finish of the Camino de Santiago at Cabo Finisterre, Spain

And They're Off:  This summer's Camino Crew is off to Spain to hike the 500 mile Camino de Santiago.  You can follow along with daily photos, daily text updates, and live GPS tracking, or help us in our fundraising efforts for the Lineberger Cancer center all at our site www.ElCamino2011.com

Camino de Santiago crew

Recent News - May 29th 2011

Troop 845 headed out on the Appalachian Trail this weekend to Roan Mountain on a shakedown hike for this summer's trek of the 500 mile Camino de Santiago.  We leave in a couple weeks for Madrid where we will then start the 5 week hike across Spain.  Check out photos from this weekend's adventure or read more about this summer's sure-to-be epic hike on our high adventure page or at www.ElCamino2011.com

Camino de Santiago shakedown hike at Roan Mtn

 

 Slideshow from recent trips at Troop 845