Pack 71 NH

09/09/2025

Pack 71 Raingutter Regatta & Cookout @ Sunapee State Beach. Sunday October 5th 12-2pm. Bring a friend & explore Scouting! All youth in Kindergarten-5th Grade welcome!

09/09/2025

Pack 71 is attending this fun event...want to join us?

08/18/2025

Great things come from Scouting.

05/30/2025

Join us this Sunday, June 1st, at Sunapee State Beach as we celebrate the achievements of Pack 71 scouts!

A noon cookout is scheduled for all scouts and families interested in scouting.

Pack 71 is open to all kids K-5th grade in Sunapee, Kearsarge, Newport, and Claremont school districts.

The awards ceremony will take place at 2pm!

05/08/2025

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03/16/2025

Racing the Cubmaster, and winning! I think the kids enjoyed that more than the actual race! Thank you to everybody that came out to help set-up and clean up.

03/16/2025

PINEWOOD DERBY DAY! Congratulations to all the scouts for building some great cars!

01/16/2025

Sledding, Donuts, and … a nap? Anyway you cut it, Pack 71 had a blast sledding last weekend! Thank you to everyone who came out!

01/08/2025

If you have ever wondered what scouting is about, read this letter from Lord Robert Baden-Powell. This is why we do scouting!

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, Founder of Scouting and World Chief Scout, died in Kenya on January 8, 1941, at the age of 83. Soldiers and Scouts escorted the coffin to a simple grave at Nyeri, within sight of Mount Kenya. This letter was found among his papers after his death, in an envelope addressed "to the Boy Scouts," inside another envelope containing other documents marked "In the event of my death," which he always carried with him during his travels.

Dear Scouts,

If you have ever seen the play "Peter Pan," you will remember how the pirate chief was always making his dying speech because he was afraid that possibly when the time came for him to die he might not have time to get it off his chest. It is much the same with me, and so, although I am not at this moment dying, I shall be doing so one of these days and I want to send you a parting word of good-bye.

Remember, it is the last you will ever hear from me, so think it over.

I have had a most happy life and I want each one of you to have as happy a life too.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life. Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy, so that you can be useful and so can enjoy life when you are a man.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people. Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

"Be Prepared" in this way, to live happy and to die happy - stick to your Scout promise always - even after you have ceased to be a boy - and God help you to do it.

Your friend,

Baden-Powell of Gilwell

12/20/2024

12/20/2024

Congratulations, Chris, on achieving Eagle Scout!

Congratulations to Troop 71's newest Eagle Scout Chris Kinne!!