Elangomat Training

Brothers,

This Saturday, April 10th, we will be hosting an Elangomat training at Camp Rainey Mountain's TNT Shelters from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm.

There is no cost for the training, but you will need to bring your own lunch. Please also bring a water bottle, work gloves, work clothes, a notebook and pen, a mask, and a raincoat.

Registration for this event is on the Mowogo Website. It will close Thursday at midnight.

If you are interested in serving at Pre-Camp this year, and either have not been previously trained or would like to be eligible for Wolf Clan this year, please register to attend.

Please remember, chapters have a requirement to have 2 trained Elangomats for every 10 candidates who attend an ordeal weekend. The more people you have trained, the easier you will be able to make this.

Thank you so much for your dedication to our lodge, and I look forward to seeing you at our training this weekend!

Yours in Brotherhood,
Jacob A. Ball
Vice Chief of Membership, Mowogo Lodge

Project List for the Day of Witahemui

Brothers,

As you know, Mowogo will not have a normal Spring Fellowship event. Instead, we are holding a separate induction and work day events to keep our attendance within covid-19 guidelines.

Our spring Day of Witahemui (day of service) will by held on Saturday, March 27. More information is available on our mowogo.org website.

Day of Witahemui Information

If you plan to attend and have not already registered, please do so via the link below.

Click here to Register for the Day of Witahemui

In order to prepare for this day of service, our project team has compiled a list of essential projects needed to begin preparing Camp Rainey Mountain for the summer camp season. Please find this list below.

It would be ideal if Mowogo Chapters would individually take ownership for each of these projects. However, if you are an individual or a group of workers attending separately from a Chapter, please let us know on which project you would like to participate. As this list has not been uploaded to the online Project List, please contact us via email to projects@mowogo.org in order to request ownership or indicate your help for a project. Your contact emails will be returned individually to help coordinate for our work day.

Thank you in advance for your service.

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Mowogo Project Team

Mowogo Projects
Day of Witahemui - March 27, 2021

Because of limited funding available in 2021, projects will be mostly limited to the infrastructure and maintenance that affect the Summer Camp Programs and the overall fitness of the Camp. Although these Projects are few, they are all important in the function and the fitness of Camp Rainey Mountain.

1. CRM Signature Fence from the Archery Range Gate to the walkway down to the Shotgun and Rifle Range – Assigned to Mark Pouncey and his crew.
2. All Maupin Campsite Tent Platforms leveled with no wood in contact with the ground. Cinderblocks and cap blocks will be provided by the Council. Most of the platforms are already levelled but need to be jacked up and concrete blocks on all 4 corners and in the middle of the platforms in the front and sides to prevent sagging. There should be one platform in the campsite that will be the standard guide to go by. Tools needed are bottle jacks, other types of hydraulic jacks, shovels, mattock, levels, screws should be used to further repair wooded frames in need of repairs. Try to avoid nails since they fail often with weather exposure. Make note of specific Tent Platform of any repairs to frames where wood or other materials are needed but not available. If properly leveled, then the platforms should last 8 to 10 years without any modifications. 8 to 10 Adults.
3. All Gullett Campsite Tent Platforms leveled with no wood in contact with the ground. Cinderblocks and cap blocks will be provided by the Council. Most of the platforms are already levelled but need to be jacked up and concrete blocks on all 4 corners and in the middle of the platforms in the front and sides to prevent sagging. There should be one platform in the campsite that will be the standard guide to go by. Tools needed are bottle jacks, other types of hydraulic jacks, shovels, mattock, levels, screws should be used to further repair wooded frames in need of repairs. Try to avoid nails since they fail often with weather exposure. Make note of specific Tent Platform of any repairs to frames where wood or other materials are needed but not available. If properly leveled, then the platforms should last 8 to 10 years without any modifications. Last 2 Platforms on the right side need to be moved forward about 3 feet. 8 to 10 Adults.
4. Build 6 New Tent Platforms constructed from scratch with materials provided – Adults Only with their personal Power tools wood and fasteners will be provided by the Council. 4 to 6 Adults.
5. Franklin Chapel Maintenance – Landscape shrubbery needs to be properly pruned and the beds weeded. Pruning tools need to be used as well as hoes and hand weeding. Gloves are essential for this type of work. Walkway needs to be weeded and gravel raked in front and back.
6. Various Painting Projects – Get materials and assignments from Ranger Foster.
7. Plant grass seed on Franklin Chapel Hill, back of Dam, Horseshoe pit. Areas need some hand work raking and leveling before planting.
8. Split firewood for dining hall smoker (oak, hickory, walnut) Adults 4 to 6.
9. Finish any projects that were not completed at Induction Day.

Online Registration 2021

Registration is now available for some of the 2021 events, and you will also find a few changes. Please note that the plans and dates below are tentative, based on the ever changing situation of the current pandemic. Updates to the Mowogo schedule and event plans will be posted as needed.

Lodge Event Registration

To reduce some of the registration confusion that has occurred in the past, registration forms for upcoming major Lodge events will only be made available one at a time. Once that Lodge function is over, registration for the next Lodge function will become available. For example, registration is currently only available for the Spring Fellowship event. PreCamp Fellowship registration will not go online until after Spring Fellowship. This limitation will help reduce some of the burden on the admin team and reduce the number of registrations made in error for the wrong event.

2021 Mowogo event registration windows:

• Jan 1, 2021 - Mar 16, 2021: Lodge member Spring Fellowship 2021 registration window
• Mar 22, 2021 - May 18, 2021: Lodge member PreCamp Fellowship 2021 registration window
• May 24, 2021 - Sep 14, 2021: Lodge member Pow Wow 2021 registration window
• Sep 20, 2021 - Nov 30, 2021: Lodge member Winter Banquet 2021 registration window

Mowogo Season Pass

Back for 2021 is the Mowogo Season Pass. For those brothers that like to register for everything at the beginning of the year, this will provide the ability to register for Spring Fellowship, PreCamp Fellowship, and Pow Wow, with a single form. The Mowogo Season Pass will only be available between now and Spring Fellowship. After that time registration will only be available for single events at time. Sorry, but Winter Banquet registration will still need to be made separately.

• Jan 1, 2021 - Mar 16, 2021: Mowogo Season Pass registration window

Ordeal Registration

As we have done for the past several years, Ordeal registration is only available for one event at a time. Registration windows for Ordeal candidates is as follows:

• Jan 1, 2021 - Mar 12, 2021: Ordeal - Spring Fellowship 2021 registration window
• Mar 22, 2021 - May 14, 2021: Ordeal - PreCamp Fellowship 2021 registration window

Changes to Group Registration

You will find that a few changes have been made to simplify the group registration method. Group registration is now only available for certain events, and should only be used if all members of the group share the same address, unit, chapter, ie. are members of the same family. This is the way the vast majority of folks have used this method in the past. To help simplify group registration, the only info required for each group member is name, birthdate, and BSAID. All address, contact, unit, and chapter information will be filled in as part of the billing info form.

If you wish to register multiple people for an event that are candidates or lodge members with different address and contact info, you will need to create multiple individual registrations. However, this can still be done with a single payment. After entering the first individual registration form, you will be given the option at the cart to register for another event. At that point simply register your next group member. The individual registrations will accumulate in the cart until such time as you are ready to pay.

Are you receiving Mowogo email?

Mowogo Lodge sends out information about upcoming events to all registered members. Additionally, confirmation emails are sent to individual members when you use the online registration system. If you are a registered lodge member and are not receiving mowogo email, please make sure to update your email spam filter to accept email from the mowogo.org domain. You also need to accept email from authorize.net in order to receive email confirmation of online registration charges. If you are still not receiving email after unblocking these domains, please contact us to make sure we have your current email address on file in the Lodge database.