TROOP MEETINGS ARE HELD AT GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH IN WASILLA
​MONDAY NIGHTS 630P-800P

Troop 300 has been named Northern Lights District Troop of the Year for 2025!
We are honored to receive this award. We work hard to deliver a quality program for our youth, consisting of service, skills development, leadership and adventure.

​We also received Long-term Outing of the Year for 2025. This was for our Yukon Expedition, where we canoed 180 miles from Whitehorse to Carmacks.

PLC HAS DECIDED ON OUR UPCOMING SCOUTING YEAR 2025-2026!!!

On Monday, September 1, the Patrol Leader's Council met and voted on our activities over the upcoming school year.   We've got a lot of really cool things on our calendar, so get ready to do some awesome scouting!



November21-23:  Merit Badge Lockin.  Location to be determined

January:  Ski Trip 

February:  Jan 30-Feb 1:  Freezer

March:  Details to be determined during November PLC

April:  Details to be determined during November PLC

May:  Details to be determined during November PLC

June 21-26 Summer Camp at Camp Gorsuch

July: July 7-12.  Mountain biking Denali Highway

The video below shows what we did over the spring and summer of 2024, and gives a good idea of what our troop is all about.  The pic galleries in the adjacent column shows some of our older, and also the latest adventures from the summer of 2025 too!

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Kiefer Mead is Troop 300's newest Eagle Scout!   Check out his picture, and the other Eagles too!

Check out all their pictures, and read more on our Eagle Tribute page.   We have produced a lot of Eagle Scouts in Troop 300, and we are proud of every single one of them!    Check them out now, by taking this link:  T300 EAGLES   

A Welcome from the Scoutmaster

As the scoutmaster of BSA Troop 300, from Wasilla, Alaska, I'd like to invite any parent and his son to get involved and become a part of Troop 300.   We are a troop of great kids and adults doing scouting the way it is intended to be done, getting OUTSIDE, having FUN, and at the same time emphasizing the character traits that have formed the foundation of America's strength and resilience.   The ideals of scouting as expressed in the Scout Oath, Scout Law, Scout Motto, Scout Slogan, and Outdoor Code are the foundation on which Troop 300 stands, and we make those ideals a part of our program.   Over the time our sons are in scouting the words they express in the Scout Oath will become guides in which to set their lives.    Scouting provides a great peer group for your son to grow up with, and the boys are great kids doing fun things.    We make high adventure happen!
                             - Nathan DeWitt

Written Calendar for 2025

THE YEARLY PLAN FOR
2025-2026

The new calendar was voted on, and the details will be determined during the monthly PLC.   Here is the compressed yearly plan at a glance:

Jan 19: Monday 
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
Register for Freezeree ($50)
Initial Signup for summer camp set for June 21-27)  $75 holds your spot
Class A uniform

Jan 24: Saturday: 6pm-830pm
District Awards Recognition Dinner
(tickets required)
Uniforms recommended 

Jan 30-Feb 1 (Friday-Sunday)
Freezeree at Camp Gorsuch
Meet time is 430p on Friday
Cost is $50 (covers food & patch)
Class A uniform

Feb 2:  Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
Gear checkin from Freezeree

Feb (date being finalized)
Hatcher's Pass Avalanche Training
Planned event with Hatchers Pass Avalanche Center.  This training could save your life someday, so don't miss it!

Feb 4: Wednesday
Wasilla Museum 630p-730p
Northern Lights District Roundtable
Leaders meeting to discuss district related topics.  

Feb 7: Saturday
Seawolves Hockey Sports Night
Scout night at Seawolves.  UAA faces off against the University of AK Fairbanks.  Uniforms are highly encouraged

Feb 9: Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
GSLC

Feb 16: Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
Second Payment due for summer camp ($175--($250 total))

Feb 23: Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
GSLC

March (Date TBD)
Planned snow-cave campout.  We plan to find snow and head there to build snow caves, have campfires, and have fun in the snow

March 4, Wednesday
Wasilla Museum 630p-730p
Northern Lights District Roundtable
Leaders meeting to discuss district related topics.  

March 7, Saturday
Camp Gorsuch 800am-5:00pm 
"University of Scouting"
Designed for all adult volunteers.  Event is packed with fun; choose a wide variety of courses taught by experienced volunteer instructors who will help you enhance your abilities to deliver a better program to your unit's youth

March 9, Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
GSLC

MID-MARCH to EARLY APRIL
​Planning to offer the Intro to Leadership Skills for Troops (ILST). This is a course for all scouts in leadership positions, and is a prerequisite for NYLT (National Youth Leadership Training) 

March 16, Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
GSLC

March 20-22
Camp Gorsuch 7pm-10am
OA Spring Fellowship
Must be current member of the Order of the Arrow,  Registration via the Great Alaska Council OA lodge website

March 21: Saturday
MatSu Gym - Palmer
This is the MatSu Borough Committee Jamboree.  This event is similar to a Scout-o-rama. We will be showing offscout skills to the public for a fun recruitment event. More details will be coming.

March 30, Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
GSLC

April 10-April 12
Times TBD
Spring Camporee.   Details to be distributed to Troops once they are available.

April 13, Monday
Troop Meeting  630p-800p
GSLC

May 6, Wednesday
Wasilla Museum 630p-730p
Northern Lights District Roundtable
Leaders meeting to discuss district related topics.

May 22-24, Friday - Sunday
Camp Gorsuch 6pm-10am
OA Spring Induction.  If you are elected by the troop, this is your first opportunity to be inducted into the Order of the Arrow. To be eligible for election, you are required to be 1st Class or above and have completed 15 nights of camping in the previous 24 months, including no more than 5 nights of an extended campout. Registration: Great Alaska Council - OA: Gorsuch Induction Weekend

May 24-30 National Youth Leadership Training.  This is an exciting, action-packed program designed for councils to provide youth members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others. Registration is by troop and requires Scoutmaster approval. If you wish to attend, let Mr. DeWitt know. You must have attended an ILST and be 1st Class. More Info: Great Alaska Council - Last Frontier NYLT

June 21-27 - SUMMER CAMP
Sunday through Saturday
Camp Gorsuch offers week-long overnight camping for Scouts from the Great Alaska Council and other visiting Councils. The program has been designed to offer Scouts a wide variety of fun, challenging opportunities to help them progress along the Trail to Eagle and a wide variety of Merit Badges. Gorsuch features Project C.O.P.E. for Scouts 13 years and older highlighting the Nanuk Lodge Brotherhood Climbing Tower. More Info: Great Alaska Council - Gorsuch Scouts BSA Resident Camp.

July 8-12 Wednesday - Sunday
Bicycling the Denali HighwayWe are going to bicycle the Denali Highway. Starting in Paxson, we will ride 200 km while camping along the road until we reach Cantwell.

August 21-23 Friday - Sunday
Camp Gorsuch 6pm-10am
OA Fall Induction.  If you are elected by the troop, this is your second opportunity to be inducted into the Order of the Arrow. To be eligible for election, you are required to be 1st Class or above and have completed 15As of 1/18/2026 nights of camping in the previous 24 months, including no more than 5 nights of an extended campout. Registration: Great Alaska Council - OA: Gorsuch Induction Weekend

September 11-13 Friday-Sunday
Fall Camporee
Details not yet finalized

September 25-27 
              AND
October 10-11
Wood Badge  
The Wood Badge course is the most advanced training that Scouting offers adults. Any registered leaders are encouraged to attend this training at least once in their Scouting career. More information: Great Alaska Council - GAC: Wood Badge
Troop 300 Thunderbirds is an Alaska Boy Scout Troop based out of Wasilla and dedicated to the four aims of scouting: 
  1. To build character,
  2. To teach leadership,
  3. to foster citizenship,
  4. and to develop fitness.   
   We are glad you stopped by, and encourage you to check out who we are and what we do.    If you are a guy thinking about becoming a scout, we appreciate your interest! 

Find out more about Troop 300

Online application to join our troop
Still Getting outside and DOING HIGH ADVENTURE SCOUTING IN 2025

Review of a few Troop 300's BIG HISTORIC Trips below:

Troop 300 has a long history of doing incredible expeditions throughout Alaska and beyond.   Normally, we do at least one big event, besides summer camp, every summer, and what that tends to be is determined by what the scouts want to do.     In the past we have had bike trips covering over 80 miles in the Denali Highway, hiked Kesugi Ride within the Denali State Park, traveled to the Kandersteg International Scout Camp in Switzerland, and lived on a sailboat at the Seabase Scout camp in Florida.   We have had expeditions to the National Jamboree, and sent more than one crew to backpack Philmont Scout Ranch.
A few pictures from an expedition down the Denali Highway!  
T300 has sent several expeditions to Seabase in Florida and the Bahamas   

HISTORIC BUT AWESOME: T300 Scouts went to Switzerland

Troop 300 even sent a delegation of T300 scouts to attend Kandersten International Scout Camp.    http://www.kisc.ch/ to get a taste.

Find something on our website:

Patch Placement

I had a parent ask where the Journey to Excellence patch goes so I figured more parents were wondering.  The patch goes on the right sleeve below the patrol patch.  If your son hasn’t gotten a JTE patch, he can come see me at a meeting - we do have more.

If you ever are in doubt on where patches/badges go, you can look in the Boy Scout Handbook on pages 20-23.  Actually all parents should take a few minutes to look through the whole book.  There is an amazing amount of information on all kinds of topics in it. 

Most important is towards the back of the book.  Between pages 438 and 465 are pages for signing off rank requirements but also logs for leadership, training, hiking, camping and service projects.  Every time you son participates in a troop event, hen should write in one (or more) of the logs.  This way when he goes to a board of review, and they ask him what he has participated in, he can use that as a reference.

Troop 300: 100% Trained Adults

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Our troop decided quite some time ago that we wanted to be 100% trained.  This means that when you turn in your adult application, it needs to be accompanied with certificates for youth protection training and also committee training.  Both are online at my.scouting.org
We always need to have people trained in Hazardous Weather to go on trips, so just do that one while you are in there (:>)

If you want to be an assistant scoutmaster, you will need both the scoutmaster specific (can be done online but I suggest you do it in person) but also the in-person Introduction to Outdoor Leadership.  When we have a group of you that want to do that, please let me know and we can arrange it.  It will probably be offered at camp too.  We are currently working on putting that together.

So please check your youth protection training - I know a few of you are expired - and get it done so we can stay 100% trained.

- Dorte Mobley

Merit Badges

Scouts rise up through ranks as they earn merit badges for learning and experience a wide array of topics and activities. Meritbadge.org is an excellent resource.

Leadership

Troop 300 is scout-led with adults leaders for support.  Scouts dream, plan, and run all events. Learn about leadership opportunities for all scouts.

Scout Fundraising

Scouts can sell BSA popcorn and coffee to raise funds to help them go to scout camp, buy gear, and other troop activities. Find out more.