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2020 Catalina Council Registration

Sign up now – PIMAREE 2020, July 12 through 18, at Camp Lawton, only $185!

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This international camping event is like no other, with Associacion de Scouts de Mexico (ASM), from Sonora, Mexico, and BSA scouts from Southern Arizona, joining together for fun and friendship since1961.  New events and challenges, some of which have never been seen before, will be among the Olympic-like themed competitions.  Special, historical Indian totems will be given for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers.  This is a coed event, with all youth protections.

Baden Powell believed international camping promoted understanding, peace and harmony, through shared, team/patrol bonding experiences.  Pimaree has lived up to this ideal for over 50 years, providing numerous life-long friendships between our Arizona and Sonoran scouts and scouters.

For a taste of what is being offered, please read these descriptions:

  1. Ropes course with 6 elements, patrol to complete carrying a large stuffed animal, within 1 minute first to last member.
  2.  Search & rescue, using block & tackle to lift patient, zip-line uphill, then lower patient.
  3. Human tic-tac-toe, game for team problem solving.
  4. First aid, stabilize and evacuate a patient, using a made stretcher, &/or carry.
  5. Human Foosball, played with groups of 2 & 3 players bungee corded to 4″ diameter, 6′ or 9′ long pvc pipes, to kick football into a goal.
  6. Human soccer, played with everyone on each team tied together.
  7. Compass & Orienteering courses, with teaching stations about topo maps, moss & tree growth, to determine direction, watch method, stick method, & pace method, etc.
  8. Knife & axe throwing for points.
  9. Bows & arrows, shot at static & moving targets, from different positions, after traveling to different points.
  10. Pellet guns, shot at static & moving targets, from different positions, after going to different spots.
  11. Climbing wall.
  12. Bike course with teaching stations, changing a flat tire, carried over obstacles, plant identification, how high is the tree?, water purification.
  13. CERT gun competition, with laser pistols.
  14. Build and fire trebuchets.  Log towing and pioneering projects with knots/lashings.  Plus campfires and a possible visit from Baden  Powell