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From: Jim Peterson (jpeterson@TZNET.COM)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:38:42 CDT
Someone wrote:
> >I still remember all those "flying saucers" buzzing through the
> >camp site after breakfast as I don't think a single Scout ate that
> >nasty cream of wheat.
>
To which Barry replied:
> Ah the memories. Slippery Falls Scout Ranch in Oklahoma was a Patrol
Cooking
> camp back in the 60s, or was it the 70s. I still remember the
routine before
> each meal of standing by the road in the hot sun waiting for the
bluish-green
> farm tractor pulling the trailer with our baskets of groceries.
and to which I add:
Wow! You had a tractor and trailer to deliver your food? When I
was a Scout (1972-1975) and staffer (1976) at Camp Lowden, Blackhawk
Area Council, the food was delivered via backpack, or more accurately,
a plastic wastebasket attached to a backpack frame. Each troop was
assigned a staff member who met them at the parking lot the first day,
guided them to their campsite, led them through med-checks and swim
tests, and gave them a tour of camp. That staff member would carry the
troop's breakfast to their campsite each morning. If the cooks were
slow risers or the breakfast preparation ran behind schedule for any
reason, the staffer would leave for his program area without
breakfast. The troop would have to provide someone to pick up their
food for lunch and dinner. As a Scout I remember those food packs as
being really heavy. As a staffer I remember missing a lot of meals.
Our troop would always take an overnight canoe trip on the Rock
River, from Lowden downstream to Dixon, Illinois. In those days,
freeze-dried foods weren't quite up to the level that they are now.
Breakfast would include "Farina" hot cereal. Now that stuff was
_vile!_
YiS,
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Jim Peterson Scoutmaster, Troop 379, Blenker, WI
Scoutmaster, Samoset Council Contingent,
National Jamboree 2001
reply to jpeterson@tznet.com
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