September 2025 Camping Signup

Trip Name: 2025-09 Black Balsam Knob
Dates: September 19-21, 2026
Cost: $ 0.00*

*Attendees will be providing their own backpacking meals:
-- Saturday breakfast
-- Saturday trail lunch
-- Saturday dinner
-- Sunday breakfast

Itinerary:
Friday, 9/19/2025
Meet at Matthews Presbyterian Church (MPC) at 5:30 pm to load vehicles. This is a backpacking trip, so nothing but backpacks, tents, backpacking meals. We'll also bring four of the Igloo water buckets since water is not easily obtained here. We'd like to depart by 6:00 pm.

We'll camp Friday night at the trailhead and after breakfast we'll top off all water bottles and depart for the summit of Tennent Mountain (6063 ft.) where we'll break for a trail lunch, then head out for the summit of Black Balsam Knob (6,240 ft.). We'll have dinner and camp on the summit on Saturday. The crew will be treated to spectacular 360-degree views from the mountain top with awesome sunsets and sunrises.

On Sunday morning, we'll break camp, have a quick breakfast, hike back down to the trailhead, pack up and depart, aiming for a 12:30 pm arrival time back at MPC.

IMPORTANT:
It can get very windy at the summit ad it is critical to pack layers in addition to rain gear.
Attendees need to plan on carrying a minimum of three 1-liter water bottles as water is scarce along the trail.

Signup Link: https://forms.gle/54H42vz3KydHbQ5g9

NOTE: The signup closes on 9/16/2025. This is the Tuesday meeting prior to the event.

Yours in Scouting,

Bruce Hethcote
Scoutmaster | 704-877-9109 | scoutmaster@matthewstroop46.org