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Your son can leverage his talents. Invisibility goes well with capture the flag. Seriously, if it matters to him, he should commit to sending pictures of the trip back to the troop every couple of days. -
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By HashTagScouts · Posted
If I were your son, I'd reply "Hopefully when you all send care packages for Johnny, there's enough for him to share with me, as I'll be there as well" . -
By mashmaster · Posted
So our Charter Org Rep makes a big deal about our troops first ever scout going to World Jamboree to the entire troop email and asks them to send him care packages. The troop has been around for a long time so he is making a big deal so it makes sense. Of course my son who is in the troop and also going to World Jamboree isn't mentioned at all.... He tells me at dinner tonight "they don't even know I exist". He transferred in a year ago and basically feels invisible. COR knows he is also going.... I feel like sending mail to the COR and saying "Way to go jerk....." -
The underlying issue here is just lack of knowledge, and poor judgment. Any trip that takes place on a river with shoals, rapids, strong eddy lines should be planned carefully. A maximum flow benchmark should be established well ahead of the trip by someone who has a has many river miles under their belt, and is flow literate. The flow was 11,000 cfs. A reasonable moderate flow for a river this size is 2000 cfs. If one has no clue what a USGS gage is, and the relevance of flow rates, aforementioned person has no business planning a trip on such a river. Looking at the sat. imagery, I would have suggested a 3000 cfs max for the float. Sidenote: A river that is as narrow as 150-200' wide flowing at 11k will probably have water velocities of 6' per second. One can only imagine an unwary paddler unwittingly crossing an eddy line.....
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