KenD500 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I have a small Troop. The older Scouts want to go on a high adventure trip but they don't know where. All of them have been to Boundary Waters Canoe Wilderness Area. 1 has been to Philmont. I'm looking for ideas to give them. Where has your Troop gone? And it doesn't have to be BSA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krampus Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 (edited) My unit usually does philmont. We have done seabase as a troop. We have sent boys to northern tier but we have not gone as a troop. We have not been to the one in West Virginia yet. We have done high adventure with a few summer camps such as Daniel Boone, Alexander, Ben Delatour, Gorham and a few others. Edited September 2, 2015 by Krampus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NealOnWheels Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Previous years: Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail & Gettysburg. Shenandoah National Park Black Hills / Mount Rushmore Washington DC (more of a tour than high adventure) Next year: Smoky Mountains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NealOnWheels Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Maybe you should first get a feel of what types of activities they are interested in so you can recomend places providing those opportunites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NealOnWheels Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 What state are you located in? We tend not to want to spend too much time traveling and not enough on activities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blw2 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I'm interested in following this thread, even though I'm a ways away from this point.... But I have wondered what sorts of things that a venture troop would go that a regular troop wouldn't around here.... North Florida I mean, If you live near the mountains, I can see doing some more hard-core multi-day hikes in the mountains... maybe so "Running Wild With Bear Grylls" type stuff But around here... maybe a multi day canoe down the Suwannee maybe.... a SCUBA trip perhaps....??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle94-A1 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Son' troop is going to Philmont. Growing up, the city my troop was in had a twin city in Canada. It was worked out that a contingent from my district would go canoeing, with a few Canadian Scout guides, up in Canada. Sea Scout Ship did a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. A troop I was in had just come back from a backpacking expedition out west. I think Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. It was just before I joined the troop. One folded crew did the Pamlico Sea Base in NC for a week long kayaking expedition. One folded troop did a weeklong Appalachian Trail expedition Suwannee reminded of a trip I did with a "hoods in da woods" I worked right after college. That trip was part of the training I went trhough. HA can be found whereever your Scouts look. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuctTape Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Maybe you should first get a feel of what types of activities they are interested in so you can recomend places providing those opportunites. Bingo! High adventure is not a where, but a what. After the boys decide on the adventure, then they can decide on the geography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr56 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Sea Base Philmont Isle Royale National Park Wind River Range, Wyoming Apostle Islands, Lake Superior Alaska Bright Sand River, Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattman578 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I take the webelos to a local camp here that has a high ropes course every year for high adventure and they love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blw2 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Bingo! High adventure is not a where, but a what. After the boys decide on the adventure, then they can decide on the geography. not a where, but a what..... Kinda seems to me that it's a bit of both hard to have much "high adventure" without something to challenge vertical - as in climbing, rappelling, etc... action - white water, skiing, canoeing perhaps, sailing challenge - SCUBA, snow caves, primitive survival distance - multi-day hikes... but then that's not much of an adventure unless some of these other things are thrown in... so while a few of these might be possible any old place, most require a where to make happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blw2 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Sea Base Philmont Isle Royale National Park Wind River Range, Wyoming Apostle Islands, Lake Superior Alaska Bright Sand River, Canada but what "adventure" do they do at these places? I for one am still trying to understand what these existing venture crews do that's so special.... Don't get me wrong, I love the idea since these are things I liked to do and am interested in.... but my imagination limits what I can think to do around here.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrat77 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 50 miler, Grand Canyon (South Rim-North Rim-South Rim) 50 miler, Philmont Alaska five day trek, off the beaten path (north of Anchorage) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentinel947 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Troop has been to all four BSA high adventure bases. But High Adventure doesn't need to be something like a BSA adventure base. Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Grand Canyon for people out West. Out East Shenandoah or Smokey Mountains are both great choices for Backpacking.Sentinel947 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr56 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Seabase was the Out Island Adventure Apostle Islands was kyacking and camping Bright Sand River in Cananda was canoeing and camping Wind River Range and Isle Royale was backpacking Alaska was kyacking, backpacking, and deep sea fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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