sorry, i should have been more clear. other activities taking away from people wanting to be in the scouts. there were the occasional fund raising things, but not many that i remember. towards the end of my time, there were three of us that were pretty good friends that liked to camp, backpack, etc. that stayed in the troop, and then a couple of other kids, but that was all. when i started ('80) there were 15-20 regulars.
a good buddy who worked with me at camp (he was in one of the tuscaloosa troops, 89 i think) worked the horse camp at philmont a couple of years. he asked me to go out with him, but i wouldn't pull the trigger. i wished i would have.
the boundary waters trip was awesome. i had to mow lawns for the philmont and bw trips. in my first few years, there was a group that would do a 60+ mile section of the a.t. every summer, i got to do two years with them.