Horizon Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Give a boy a campfire and he is warm for the night. Let him burn his own fingers and his learns his own safety lessons with fewer words from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Waterproof clothing isn't. (However it demonstrates 100% effectiveness at containing sweat.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GernBlansten Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Nature abhors an empty backpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John-in-KC Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 The REI catalog is always calling ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dScouter15 Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 One every campout, someone will forget something important. That same item can always be replaced by an appropriate combination of wooden poles, twine, garbage bags and/or duct tape, and a little ingenuity. If the scoutmaster picks the date for the campout, it will rain. If you're planning on doing swimming or boating, it will be freezing. If you let the adults read the map, you will get horribly, horribly lost. It can actually rain, non-stop, for 72 hours. Bob White really likes training. The parts of the training about knowing your resources, and knowing your troop's needs are REALLY important. If you spend too much time grumbling about the little things wrong with your unit, you'll miss out on all the great things that it does well. If you find yourself relaxing on a camping trip, you really should stop by the troop's axe yard or fire pit. Some of the most friendly, humble, loyal, knowledgeable and generous people; some of the best teachers, best role models, and biggest advocates for youth you'll ever meet will be Scouters. These are the kind of people that you stop and thank God that you've had the opportunity to meet. Some of the most pompous, arrogant, self-centered, rude, snobbish people you'll ever meet will be Scouters. These are the kind of people you dread having to work with, but help to show you where you fall in this spectrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hot_foot_eagle Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 You can tell how much camping experience a boy has by how clean he is. Corollary: an inexperienced camper's dirtiness is inversely proportional to how much fun he's having. Go to any scout gathering and betweem careers and hobbies you will find enough combined talent and knowledge to do almost anything imaginable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsaddle Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 OK, why wouldn't it be 'directly' proportional? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio_Scouter Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Always stand up-range at any Scouting mountain-man rendezvous . This includes rifle, shotgun, tomahawk/knife, and archery ranges. This scouting truth was learned after participating in many years of our Council's mountain-man rendezvous. The cattle rancher whose property adjoined the old rifle range of our Council's Scout Reservation would paint the current market price on the side of each of his cows so that every scout knew how much he'd have to pay in case the scout inadvertantly shot one of the grazing herd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but on an scouting event, Cleanliness is next to impossible Corollary to the above: In order to clean something, something else must get dirty; Just because something got dirty in no way means something else got clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio_Scouter Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 From personal experience... Whenever deep-sea fishing on Florida Seabase Coral Reef Sailing adventures, and you hook into a large dolphin fish, make sure to reel him in quickly, or you may end up with only a fish head because the sharks got him before you could land him in the boat. Very disappointing, but an intersting photograph! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio_Scouter Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 If your scouts decide to attend any of the BSA Northern Tier High Adventure Bases, and the base assigns your crew a guide who wears glasses, beware! During your journey, after your canoe swamps, don't ask her to help because in the process her glasses just might accidentally fall irrecoverably to the bottom of the lake, and you may have to find your own way back to canoe base. If you have maps, compass, and a good navigator in your crew, you'll be OK. If not, you're in big trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 But Ohio_Scouter, now you are forever linked to Santiago and how cool is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio_Scouter Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Way too cool, OGE. As Beavah says, these kinds of outings are filled with the best Scouting stories and memories . This one's right out of a Hemingway novel, The Old Man and the Sea... Santiago sails back to shore with the marlin tied to his boat. Sharks follow the marlins trail of blood and destroy it. Santiago arrives home toting only the fishs skeletal carcass. The village fishermen respect their formerly ridiculed peer, and Manolin pledges to return to fishing with Santiago. Santiago falls into a deep sleep and dreams of his lions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio_Scouter Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Again, from personal experience... When traveling to Philmont Scout Ranch, never assume that the train will be on time, or that the wheels of all cars are even on the tracks when wondering why the train is running late . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herms Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 There will be at least one homesick scout at Summer Camp each year:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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