Boy Scout Troop 129 participated in a wilderness survival campout in which they were blindfolded (by placing paper bags over their heads) and taken to a secret location.

Once there, assistant scoutmaster Larry Blair and Eric Manneschmidt had designed and laid out compass courses with degrees of difficulty corresponding to different age groups. Still blindfolded, different groups were taken to starting points. Scouts were required to camp out before returning to the home bases by using landmarks on the course.

The campout involved making shelter without tents, starting fires without matches, preparing meals without utensils and layout of emergency signal markers. Arrangements by scoutmaster Tom Moore to conduct an aerial survey to record the number and type of various markers had to be cancelled due to poor weather.

Guesses by scouts as to where the secret location was resulted in some interesting and humorous answers.

Scouts Mark Chattin, Chris Hendrich, Scott Snyder and Michael Stricklin received the wilderness survival troop award. Troop 129 is sponsored by the Oak Ridge Kiwanis Club.