❄️🔥 SAVE THE DATE! ❄️🔥
Mountain Valley District Klondike Derby
📍 Camp Shenandoah
🗓️ February 6 – 8, 2026
Open to ALL Scouts BSA Troops & Crews
📝 Registration Coming Soon!
🛷💨 Featured Events Include:
🏁 Sled Race
Put your patrol to the test! Race through a mapped course in a timed event. Speed, coordination, and teamwork will determine the victors!
🪓 Paul Bunyan Challenge
Show off your lumberjack skills:
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Saw a log
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Light a match… with an axe
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Tomahawk & knife throw
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Wood tools safety showdown
🏕️ Shelter Building
Build a 2-person shelter using only natural materials and twine. Can your team build something that blends into the wilderness and keeps you dry?
🔥 Fire Building Challenge
Start a fire without matches or lighters using natural or homemade fire starters (no chemicals!). Your flame will be tested by:
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Burning a string
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Boiling water
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Cooking a treat
All while following strict fire safety guidelines.
🧠 Scouting Trail Quiz
Explore the camp while answering 20+ questions?
🚑 First Aid Station
Face cold-weather emergency scenarios and show how you’d help a fellow Scout survive the winter elements.
🎯 BB Shooting
Take your shot and hit the target!
🤝 Team Challenge
Can your patrol work together to solve puzzles and complete challenges? Teamwork = points!
🍽️❄️ Special Activities:
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🥶 Polar Plunge – Dive into the thrill (and the chill!)
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👑 King of the Klondike – Scoutmaster Cookoff! Who will lead their unit to glory?
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🍖 Musher’s Banquet – Warm up with good food and great company!
🧭 Adventure. Camaraderie. Challenge.
Join us at Camp Shenandoah for the coolest competition of the year!
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