Scouts brave cold,wind for annual Klondike Derby in Warren

WARREN

With 20-degree temperatures and 10-degree wind chill factors, no one would have wanted to be outside very long on Saturday – no one, that is, except more than 200 Boy Scouts roughing it all day in the annual Klondike Derby at Perkins Park.

“I love it,” said Josh Lang, 16, of Mineral Ridge as he psyched himself up for the competition. “You’ve got to be prepared for the cold,” he said, rephrasing the well-known scouting oath about preparedness.

The Arrowhead District Klondike Derby brought the Trumbull County scouts together for a test of skills in six activities at stations scattered throughout the park. Among the skills tested was generating fire by friction, but that task was not limited to the scouts. Their adult scout leaders decided it would be good for them to do the same thing.

Read more about the event in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.