Onteora Scout Reservation:
Blue Nose and Snowball Patches

It took a lot of cold weather camping to earn these patches. Click here for complete information on Operation Igloo, Blue Nose and Snowball.
 

1978
WANTED
1982
WANTED

Bluenose patch (29154 bytes)

 Blue Nose had originally been held at Camp Wauwepex, and moved to Onteora in 1993. The patch on the left was available from 1993 to 1998, and the one with the igloo was issued in 1999. Two pins were issued for Basic and Advanced Training and at shown on the left.

Bluenose patch 1999(18104 bytes)
Each year, campers received a small dog for the sled, showing the year and District name. Each of the dogs for 1993-2000 are shown here:

Bluenose dogs (41542 bytes)

Undated dog for 2000
The Rough Rider District began their winter campout, Snowball, in 1986. After several years of successful operation under that name, the District changed the name of their event back to Operation Igloo.
1988		 Snowball patch 1990
1990


1991
WANTED
1992
WANTED		 Snowball patch 1993 (11802 bytes)
1993

Snowball patch 1996 (25235 bytes)
1996

 Snowball patch 1997 (12694 bytes)
1997

Snowball patch 1998 (11829 bytes)
1998

When you warm up, you can head back to the main Onteora page.

My sincere thanks to Jim Kent for the donation of several patches and loans of others for use on this site.