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YosemiteBen:
Indeed Rob! Check out the Scout NPS Stewardship patch on the NPS.GOV website. That patch can be obtained at any National Park either by individual scouts or as a troop.

Trapper Rob:
Ben I'll look into it.

jeffp51:
My best two memories were a 50-mile hike in a week, and a 50 mile hike in 20 hours.  Hardest thing I ever did.  Made me tougher, and got me through a whole lot.  Got my Eagle scout award just before I turned 18 in the eighties.  Scouting isn't what it used to be, and kids are not being challenged like they used to be.

lebhuntfish:
Rob, I sent you a message. I would love to talk to you and your son.

One of my most favorite adventures every year in the scouts was the Klondike derbies. We would build a "dog" sled that we had to take to the camp out. We had different survival skills at several stations that we had to use our orienteering knowledge to find. The entire thing was a big competition, from who had to string a clothesline in the morning to dry sleeping bags because they wasn't prepared (a scout is always prepared) to who wins the sled race at the end of the weekend.
We always wished it would snow and one time it did. Woke up with 10 inches around the tent. Now that was a fun Klondike derby!

Patrick

Hawkdancer:
I got my Eagle Scout awarded in 1960, finished as an assistant Explorer post advisor, also had achieved 4 Explorer ratings, which would have qualified me for the Silver(?) Ex[plorer award, but that was terminated while I was away to college.  Got onto the Explorers only.  One of the camping trips we took got a bit wet in central Missouri and we were in a low area.  I had gone to look at the river earlier and then made my breakfast, and went back to wash my dishes and noticed the river had risen more than a foot in a half hour.  I told the post advisor what I saw and showed him what was happening, and he decided to break camp and evacuate.  we had to cross a low spot in the road, and later found out from the landowner that it  flooded about 15 minutes after we cleared and it was 2 weeks before he could get into that area! Overall, it was an interesting time, and I eventually was scoutmaster to the troop my boys were in, and range director at the council camp.
Hawkdancer

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