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A multiple of $1.01 from each full-time participant has not generated enough income to fund Winter Camp fully each year. Accordingly, beginning at Winter Camp VI, Winter Camp has operated its own trading post. This entrepreneurial move has two benefits: first, all profits from snack and soft drink sales accrue directly to Winter Camp; and second, a more convenient source of snack food is established. As the camp trading post is located within Trout Lake subcamp, distance becomes a limiting factor; moreover, the Winter Camp emporium is open at hours far more convenient to campers. A limited but nonetheless popular selection of snack items has thus offered a boost to the Winter Camp economy.</P><P>The trading post operations were partially mechanized at Winter Camp XIV, when the ancient candy machine discovered by Roger Horn, Jeff Rand, and Doug Wilson was restored to full working order and offered nickel candy bars for sale. As a hedge against fraud, Winter Camp soon developed its own coins, the only tokens approved for use in the machine. These U.S. nickels, painted red, were sold at the trading post each year and find their way to the machine's collection slot in great numbers. Jefferson nickels had a tendency to jam in the machine, so Steve Donohue and Doug Wilson independently conceived the idea of acquiring Buffalo nickels, which were contemporaneous with the machine when it was new. They found the nickels on eBay, and beginning at Winter Camp XXVII, the machine jammed much less frequently.</P><P>Still sought is a similarly-aged soft drink machine, although the mechanization was modernized at Winter Camps XXII-XXIV by Dave Woods, who provided new snack and pop machines for camp. At Winter Camp XXV, bottled water was added to the trading post's beverage selection; and at Winter Camp XXVI, Paul Kupser catered the beverage selection with his assortment of home-brewed soft drinks as snack sales soared -- the latter for no easily discernible reason. Paul's home brew, in a variety of flavors, was the only pop available at Winter Camp XXVII -- in the trading post or on the menu. Mechanical difficulties prevented its return at Winter Camp XXVIII, but it is expected to return for Winter Camp XXX.</P><P>Snacks Offered For Sale At The Winter Camp Trading Post</P><OL><LI>Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (far and away #1 in popularity)</LI><LI>Kit Kat</LI><LI>Snickers (full size)</LI><LI>Snickers (fun size, @ 3 for 5¢ -- these were used to launch the candy machine)</LI><LI>Scout Nutrition Bar</LI><LI>Hershey's</LI><LI>Hershey's Almond</LI><LI>M&M's (plain)</LI><LI>3 Musketeers</LI><LI>Skittles</LI><LI>Frito-Lay Variety Pack snacks</LI><LI>Pringles</LI><LI>Twix</LI><LI>Frito-Lay Planet Lunch Pack snacks</LI><LI>Cheez-Its</LI><LI>Giant Pixy Stix</LI><LI>Milky Way</LI><LI>Chips Ahoy!</LI><LI>Oreos</LI><LI>Nutter Butter cookies</LI><LI>Fig Newtons</LI><LI>Fruit snacks</LI><LI>Reese's Pieces</LI><LI>Baby Ruth</LI><LI>Fast Break</LI><LI>S'mores bars</LI><li>Oberto beef jerky</li><li>Almond Snickers</li><li>Peanut Butter Snickers</li><li>Pretzel M&M's</li><li>Butterfinger</li><li>100 Grand</li><li>Tootsie Roll</li><li>Tootsie Roll Pops</li></ol>

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