we went to quetico when i was in 6 grade it was my second year and i enjoyed it a lot i would say that the trip was a big factor for me to stay in till I was 18. but our drive was a little longer we put it over 2 days. about 18 hours.

some friends went to boundry waters they said its cool. I'm considering going to world jamboree.

I was an Explorer Scout, which is like the Special Forces of the Boy Scouts of America, when I was a teenager. We did alot of Warfare and Survival Operations to get us ready for the real World. I don\'t know if they were training us to be Cops or Mercinaries. It is kind of disturbing some of the stuff that they taught me when I was 14yrs old.

 

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Are you serious?

 

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Do you really need to know this at 14yrs old?

Edited September 14, 200917 yr by Jharius

thats great you were an explorer scout, but you didn't have to be a jerk about it with the badge photo.

I changed it, it was suppose to be a joke.

lol, ok

And yes, you really need to know that at 14 years old.

I was an Explorer Scout, which is like the Special Forces of the Boy Scouts of America,

We did alot of Warfare and Survival Operations to get us ready for the real World. I don\'t know if they were training us to be Cops or Mercinaries.

 

Well, thats certainly not true of all boy scouts / Explorer units. Some units, even regular scout troops, take on a para-military bent. Its the leaders that choose to take this path. There are many Explorer units that don't take this track at all.

 

Honestly, I always felt a little sorry for the scouts that were stuck in those units not because they enjoyed those activities, but because thats all they had in their area. In some cases, when those are the only type of troops around, people actually think thats what the boy scouts is about. Shame, really.

 

P.S. To Expand, explorer units are usually theme-based. SOME of them choose to focus on public service / police / para-military themes. Others choose sailing, rescue, technical climbing, or other interests. Anyway, I hope people reading this don't think that all Explorers are trained to be "survival experts" or "tactical combat experts".

Edited September 15, 200917 yr by SackOHammers

Yeah, before Philmont I worked a few years at the camp in our Council. I was an area director (1/3 of the camp) for a couple years. Good fun, but not nearly the experience of Philmont.

 

My brother held a similar position at his camp. Worked there for five years and ran the place for the last three. I think he was just trying to show me up.

 

Ah yes, Boundary Waters. My college roommate handled one of the fly-in bases at Boundary Waters. He brought back some good stories. If you can't make it to Philmont.... from what I understand, Boundary Waters offers a similar caliber of experience... both in team building, comraderie, and personal growth.

 

I would argue that Philmont is a much bigger experience than Boundry Waters. However, I grew up on the water and can drive home and go canoeing after work if I wanted to, but I have to leave the state to find a real mountain. So I guess it comes down to a perspective thing.

I'm not sure how the boy scouts got shafted with popcorn while the girls got all the good cookies to sell.

BCND we are not innocent little girls we are high school boys who wants to buy cookies off us.

Haha. Can you imagine some 17 year old dude showing up on your doorstep trying to sell you cookies?

 

We never did popcorn. Our biggest fundraiser was Christmas wreaths and garlands. My dad was the scoutmaster and we had a huge pole barn in our back yard, so my brother and I would haul ungodly numbers of boxes down there every winter, and then haul them back up as kids came to get their orders.

 

Also, to this day my dad runs a pair of 100' garlands along the fence in front of his house. Every spring we have a massive bonfire. Let me tell you a little something about 200' of dried evergreen on a roaring fire: Not approved by the Boy Scout Handbook.

 

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Not approved by the Boy Scout Handbook.

 

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What is approved by bsa that most troops do.

Anybody else spend time at Camp Sabattis? Damn, that was so long ago for me like 20 years ago :suicidebastard: :BnTdidit:

nope most of mine was at Chief Logan scout Reservation.

Popcorn rocks i got this guy who buys 400 dollars worth and get to go to an all night laser tag thing (I always win) ps if explorer scouts like that was in my town i would join in a heartbeat.

lol i still have (and use) the multi-tool I got from selling popcorn in cubscouts

lol man they give you a football for like 100 dollars it sucks. but the knives are pretty good.

I have a good friend from france in boyscouts.

I am currently in Boy Scouts. I just got my eagle a month ago.

congrats on the eagle rank! welcome to the family

I'm in it right now and currently finishing up on my Eagle. I honestly can't wait to get the project done.

Eagle scout troop 169 SW michigan council. Seabase in the bahamas was awesome as was philmont in new mexico