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Scouting ranks, merit bades, and the advancement programs
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By E V Augustine · Posted
There is a Scout camp in northeast Ohio that used a farm tractor towing a hay wagon to haul troop gear into their campsite. Staff does not handle troop gear. I am not sure the practice continues. I have been told it took hours to get into the campsites. At the northeast PA summer camp I attended as a Scout in the middle 1960's we walked our personal gear in over a box truss footbridge straddling a creek. Then everything you needed for the week would fit in a Yucca pack. The current "suggested Scout gear list" barely fits in a 90 liter plastic tub. -
Trailers can do more damage than standard vehicles. Other threads here have talked about scouters who don't know how to properly connect, load, equalize, or drive trailers. It's not always just about weight. Somebody who gets themselves in a bad spot, or has to yink yank all over to back in, can do a lot of site damage. It may be only your scout camp that has this particular policy so far, but there are a lot of places where you can no longer drive in at all. Scouting also has a 'camp in all weather' credo. People sometimes do not consider potential site damage when weighing plans but it is upper mind for many facilities. They're trying to work with you in their own way -- they know it's hitched properly, that maybe you can't drive it around after they've parked it, and they can control where it's put. It is a liability concern though for he reasons mentioned. -
By InquisitiveScouter · Posted
At the camp I grew up in (1980's, LOL!), our Camp Director got fed up with shenanigans, and went to a system where, when units arrived in the main parking lot, they loaded all their gear into a camp trailer, and Ranger or Asst Ranger drove it to their campsite, with staff members assisting on loading and unloading. The issues then were too many cars in camp, drivers far exceeding safe speeds on camp roads with campers running everywhere, and people not getting their vehicles out expeditiously. So, about my third year on staff, the Camp Director instituted that procedure, and it worked well for the next five years I was on that staff... -
Yes, staff driving a units vehicle or towing a units trailer is not normal. I can't say if it is unique to Beaumont; however, I have been to many scout camps and never experienced or heard of this before. -
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