We have scheduled two Pack Family Campouts, so save these dates:
June 20-22, 2025 at Raccoon Creek State Park Sioux B Campsite sign up here https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=235
September 19-21, 2025 at Raccoon Creek State Park Sioux B Campsite

Raccoon Creek State Park Sioux B Campsite is about 35 minutes from South Fayette. It is a primitive camping site with vault toilets and water nearby. There is plenty of room for families to set up tents and for the Scouts to play in the group tenting area. The weekend activities will include a one mile hike, fishing, swimming and kayaking for both of these trips to Raccoon State Park.

For all trips your family can join us for one night or both. If you are unable to camp overnight, please feel free to join us on Saturday for morning activities, a hike, time spent at the lake in the afternoon and cooking our own dinner over the campfire or in a Dutch oven. Don’t let a lack of tenting equipment keep you out of the fun… many of us have plenty of equipment to share.

Our typical schedule looks something like this:
Friday after 4PM– arrive at camp, set up tents, families cook their dinners, kids play and parents hang out by the campfire. Lights out by 10PM for the kiddos.

Saturday morning– families cook their breakfasts, kids play
Saturday 10AM to 12PM – activities and hike
Saturday 12PM to 1PM – families prepare lunch
Saturday 1PM to 4PM – activities at the lake
Saturday 4PM to 7PM – dinner – tinfoil meals or dutch oven (Pack provides)
Saturday 7PM to 9:30PM – Scouts play and hang out by the fire
Saturday 10PM – Lights out for the kiddos

Sunday morning– families cook their breakfasts, kids play
We have the campsites until 3PM on Sunday. Families can choose to enjoy the amenities at the State Parks, including fishing, swimming and boating. Families choose when they would like to pack down their tents and head home.

All families will bring their own food and prepare their own meals, with the exception of the dinner on Saturday. We will have tin foil pockets for dinner that evening which adult leaders will assist the Scouts in preparing in a sanitary manner. There will be a $5/person or $20/family charge for this dinner meal. Exact payment expected at the campsite.

Join us for a picnic to wrap up the year and celebrate our scouts’ accomplishments! We’ll be having our May Pack Meeting at the Rotary Pavilion in Fairview Park (the big one up top by the soccer fields) on May 18 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. We’ll have advancements for the scouts then we’ll be having a cook out, with grilled hot dogs and non-meat dogs and we ask that you sign up to bring everything else we need to round out the meal. We have divided up what category of food to bring based on your child’s den. Please indicate that when you sign up.

Let’s get outside and have some fun, wrapping up a year of hard work!

The pack will have water jugs as well, so bring your water bottles! 

Please sign up here to indicate how many are joining us and mark what you’re bringing.

Pack 843 is heading to the ballpark!! We will join the Washington Wild Things for some summer fun with a baseball game and sleepover at the ballpark on Saturday, June 14th! Gates open at 6PM and game time is 7:05PM. After the game, stick around to play catch, watch a movie and camp out in the outfield. All scouts and leaders will receive a Wild Things Scout Patch for attending.

We have multiple different ticket options for the game:

1. Overnight tickets which are $18. These include the game ticket, post-game activities, movie, sleepover, breakfast, and a scout patch (the patch is for Scouts and Leaders only).
2. Additional Tickets for anyone who is neither a Scout nor a Leader but wants to attend the game. These tickets are $10 and are just the game ticket.
3. Ticket and Patch package. These are perfect for Scouts and Leaders that want to attend the game but can’t stay overnight. They are $10 and include the game ticket as well as the scout patch (Only Scouts and Leaders can get this ticket).

Advance registration and payment are required for this event prior to May 28th.
Please sign up here: https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=233

Payment can be made via cash, check (made out to ‘Pack 843’), or Zelle it (724-350-2846, or search Cub Scout Pack 843)

You must provide your own tent, sleeping bags and overnight items. If you need to borrow a tent or sleeping bag, let us know and we will work something out!

If you have further questions regarding this event, please contact the event coordinator,
Matt Bizzack at matt.bizzack@gmail.com, or see attached flyer!

For our pack meeting this month, we’ll be meeting at the Hendersonville Pavilion at Hendersonville Park On April 27th at 1:30 PM. Please see the location here:

https://goo.gl/maps/X7ca3GhaPi15VUtC9

The pack meeting will start at 1:30, but we’ll gather early to gather everyone’s food they collected for Scouting for Food. The pack meeting will have our usual announcements, advancements that the scouts have earned, then a discussion about bicycle safety, and then go for a ride on the nearby Montour Trail! Please make sure to bring water for the ride and if you want it afterward. After we all get back from our ride, the pack will provide an ice cream treat for everyone, so please sign up to let us know how much to get! Hope to see you there!

Please sign up here: https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=232

Here’s more information on the Scouting for Food collection:

Come join your friends in Pack 843 as we race against other cub scout packs in the area!  The race is on Saturday May 10 from 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM at the Settlers’ Cabin Wave Pool parking lot (https://maps.app.goo.gl/g3HZGMdXSLruB3VL6). Races include a downhill/gravity race, a slalom, a circular track with scouts pushing each other, and a distance push!  We have 2 Cubmobiles and will bring as many scouts as want to attend, but we do need a team to be able to participate!  All riders need to wear shoes and a helmet, so bring your bike helmet! Ask a leader for more information. Please see this page on the council page for more information and to sign up.

Please also sign up on the pack website at https://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=231

On Friday, February 28, we spent the night at the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium. During the night, scouts solved mysteries, encountered numerous zoo animals, and searched for clues after dark at the zoo. A great time was had by all!

On March 15, we will meet for our March Pack Meeting at the Pittsburgh Botanical Gardens in Oakdale (https://maps.app.goo.gl/rwL1gL8egLaJsJq38) to do some Geocaching. Their staff will lead us on a discussion of using technology and a program of finding caches in their garden. We’ll start with recognizing our scouts’ advancements at 9:30 AM. Then, the guided program will start at 10:00 AM and run until 11:30 AM. To cover admission to the garden, the pack will cover costs for leaders, scouts are asked to pay $5.00 and parents/siblings $10.00. Please sign up on the website here and you can pay with a check (get it to your den leader) or via Zelle.

Please see the sign up page here: http://pack843.org/sign-ups/?sheet_id=230

Please contact Jon Spink with any questions about this opportunity or to pay at jon.spink@gmail.com

Join our Pack July 11-13 at Laurel Highlands Council’s Camp Independence, for the ultimate Cub Scouting camping experience. Scouts, their leaders, and parents/guardians stay overnight two nights for three days at the camp, part of the council’s Heritage Reservation, nestled in the Laurel Highlands wilderness. The camp has many activities for the scouts to enjoy, like BB guns, archery, slingshots, climbing, hiking, swimming, fishing, boating, campfires, and more! For more information, see the council webpage for this event at: https://scoutingevent.com/527-2025CampIndependence

Camp is $275 for Scouts to spend three days and $120 for adults. Spots are still available! Please contact Jon Spink with any questions or if you’re interested at jon.spink@gmail.com

**Update!!**

Camp is expensive, we understand! The costs, as outlined earlier, are $275 for youth and $120 for adults when registered and paid by April 1. In order to help, our pack is offering a $50 campership for those scouts attending summer camp for the first time. This means, if this is your first time going to summer camp, you’ll pay $225. We are also offering $30 off for siblings attending. If you have two kids going to camp, each will have $30 of their fee covered by the pack (and our council is offering the exact same discount for siblings.) Please let me know who is interested and we’ll figure out your total. Payment can be made to the pack with a check or by Zelle.

The camp has launched a new webpage for the camp facilities:

Please contact me, Jon Spink at jon.spink@gmail.com if you’re interested in attending the camp session. I’ll make sure you are registered with the pack’s slot – no need to register yourself!

On Sunday, December 8, Pack 843 will gather at the Oakdale Community Center for our next Pack meeting. All families are invited to come celebrate the many holidays taking place at this time of year! We’ll meet from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, but please consider coming early to help create crafts for the pack to sell at the holiday mart at the school on Dec. 13 – 14. We’ll be there at 2:00 PM to create and build. All families are asked to bring a dish(or dishes) to share, preferably from your family’s cultures/heritage. We will have some of the usual basic items (pizza, chips, fruit, cookies) and fun activities for our scouts to keep the time festive. The Oakdale Community Center has plenty of space for you to plug in your crock pots to keep the food warm until we eat – room to plug in Crock Pots, and a microwave to reheat anything if needed. Please sign up to let us know you’re attending and what you’re bringing. Please indicate the number of people attending in the “Item Quantity” field and the item you are bringing in that field.

On Sunday October 27, we’ll gather for our next Pack meeting at the Fairview Park Rotary Pavilion from 1-3 PM for a Tent or Treat and some Halloween fun! The scouts and their families can come in costume if they wish and decorate tents with the rest of their den. The pack will supply treats for the trick-or-treaters. Hope to see you there! Please sign up to let us know you’re coming to have some fall fun!

Sign-ups!