From: Alpvalsys@AOL.COM
Date: Tue Jan 18 2000 - 16:55:10 CST
In a message dated 00-01-18 13:58:38 EST, Mike McAbee wrote:
<< For summer camp we go on a canoe trip, approx 125 miles >>
Mike,
As Conrad Shultz pointed out. "The fifteen days and nights must include
one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of six consecutive days
and five nights of resident camping, approved and under the auspices and
standards of the Boy Scouts of America."
I'm sorry, but I don't see where your canoe trip is "resident
camping....under the auspices of the (BSA)." It may, indeed, be a wonderful
experience, but it's only so many days toward the 9-day requirement of
non-resident camping. And don't get me wrong; I've spent 10 days canoeing
the Everglades, with shorter trips in several other locations, so I know what
can and cannot be accomplished. But I don't see it as summer camp in the
meaning of the OA or the BSA.
Ralph V. Balfoort, Unit Commissioner
Albany, NY
I used to be a Beaver.... (NE III-135)
In the Beaver Patrol as a Scout, too,
and now Ktemaque (Beaver) Chapter,
Haudenosaunee Lodge #19, OA
