High Adventure
Susan Wilcox (slwilcox@ucdavis.edu)
Wed, 22 Jan 1997 10:06:02 -0800
I was pleased to read Barbara's outing account. Her statement that the trip
wasn't "high adventure" is a problem we deal with in the high adventure post
with which I am associated. This last weekend they staffed the district's
Klondike Derby but none of them wanted to sleep in the snow. Snow camping
is high adventure but the ex-boy scouts have already done that and the non
boy scouts think it is too much. Where is the high adventure spirit.
Exactly what does high adventure mean????? Please let me know.
To a boy who has been in a boy scout for 5-6 years before joining the post,
backpacking, canoeing, spelunking, and rock climbing are nothing new. To
boys and girls who have not been a part of a unit which does these things on
a regular basis, they do not have the skills to do the more high adventure
events and a simple camping trip is high adventure to some of them. The ex
boy scouts don't want to spend time on the skill development needed to be
'safe' at some of these activities because they already know them. The
non-boy scouts don't like looking stupid in front of the ex boy scouts.
Thus we do a lot of non high adventure trips with one or two exceptional
trips during the year. For example, this summer will be a white water
rafting trip and a visit to a BSA high adventure camp for rock climbing.
The rest of the year is shooting, camping, and skiing. Not real high
adventure but that is what the kids have planned.
Susan Wilcox
New to Exploring, I used to be an owl.
At 08:02 PM 1/21/97 -0600, you wrote:
>OK, Mark, I'll make some noise.
>
>I am an associate adviser to a high adventure post in Columbia, South
>Carolina. This past weekend we were supposed to go backpacking in the
>Blue Ridge mountains but the temperature was going to 30 degrees below
>zero Farenheit with the wind chill factor at night so instead we went
>camping at the beach (Atlantic ocean) and it was only about zero- talk
>about some serious searching on the boys' part for firewood. Saturday
>morning we watched the sun rise over the Atlantic and watched huge
>groups of pelicans and all sorts of water birds. As we ate our lunch on
>the beach nestled in the dunes to stay out the cutting wind, we also
>were graced with a wonderful performance of porpoises gracefully playing
>in the water. For supper we all enjoyed a fine pineapple/cherry cobbler
>cooked in a cast iron dutch oven on the enormous bed of coals carefully
>tended all day by one of our members. This was the first trip for this
>brand new post and it was not high adventure in the classic sense but we
>do have some stories from this trip with which to begin a history. To
>sum it all up, we did have fun-drank a lot of hot chocolate and apple
>cider, too. And we also found out that raccoons still visit even at
>below freezing temperatures.
>
>Barbara Butler-Long
>Post 221
>Indian waters Council
>
>
Susan Wilcox
Accounting and Financial Services
DaFIS Project
Fax: (916)758-5268
e-mail: slwilcox@ucdavis.edu
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