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Scoutmaster Podcast 175 – Summer Camp
This edition of the Scoutmaster Podcast I share ten things that will help make your summer camp stay this year a success and answer an email question about the patrol leader's council. All this and ...continue reading
The Wanigan – Storage for Canoeing and Camping
Wanigan is borrowed from Ojibwa word for "storage pit" as a name for a storage box like the ones shown here. In some regions a houseboat, temporary hut on a log raft, a small house, bunkhouse, or ...continue reading
Patrol System Survey
How well are we applying the patrol system? I often ask myself this question and I am constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for our Scouts. I've set up a patrol system survey to see ...continue reading
Summer Camp Advice
Here's some summer camp advice from a former camp director to anyone fortunate enough to spend a week at summer camp as a Scouter. Your camp director's biggest difficulties aren't caused by Scouts ...continue reading
Marbles Camp Axe Review (and more!)
Marbles Camp Axe Great fit and finish for a very good price. The marbles is a bit larger than most camp hatchets or axes and it's a quality product. Available from Conoho Creek ...continue reading
Two Key Skills for Scouters
Two key skills for Scouters - sometimes we all feel that plate spinning and/or cat herding is just about all we ever do! Click to see full sized image PDF version of Two Key Skills for ...continue reading
Effective Scouters don’t let Competence Obscure Possibility
Effective Scouters are alert to possibility, to the challenge of the moment. If we aren't watchful, though, those transient moments of possibility become obscured by our preoccupation with ...continue reading
Scoutmaster Podcast 174 – The Colorado Experiment 3
This edition of the Scoutmaster Podcast features the third installment of 'The Colorado Experiment" as we continue to track the first months of a brand new Scoutmaster with a brand new troop. All of ...continue reading
Men of Schiff: The Professional Scouters Who Built the B.S.A.
Win Davis has been a member of the Boy Scouts of America for more than sixty years as a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Scoutmaster, Sea Scout Skipper, Commissioner, Commodore and other positions too numerous ...continue reading
The Bridge Builder
The Bridge Builder An old man, going a lone highway, Came, at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed ...continue reading
EcoZoom Stove Review
While researching information to write this EcoZoom Stove review I learned some interesting things.: Half of the world cooks on a wood fire every day. They use open fires or unimproved ...continue reading
Scouting Traditions and Scouting Habit
Scouting Traditions are, for the most part, wonderful things, they connect us to the past and provide a bridge into the future. Scouting has many hallowed traditions that have only grown more ...continue reading
Scoutmaster Podcast 173 – Policy Shift Issues
This edition of the Scoutmaster Podcast I join Frank Maynard and Walter Underwood for a discussion about the recent change to BSA membership policy. Our aim is to look at the process, the vote, and ...continue reading
The Perfect Campsite (Canoists and Kayakers Only!)
The folks at Paddling Light have published this decision tree for canoeists and kayakers faced with the eternal question; "is this the perfect campsite or should we look for another one?". If ...continue reading
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Order of the Arrow – Tonight’s ScoutCircle June 9, 9-10PM EDT
June 9, 2013 , Leave a Comment
Andrew Coe is the Lodge Advisor for Octoraro Lodge 22, Order of The Arrow, in Chester County Council, Pennsylvania. Andy became an Eagle Scout, served on the Camp staff at Horseshoe Scout ...continue reading