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Have a patch or memorabilia you're looking to swap? Use this virtual patch trading blanket. (This area is intended to facilitate memorabilia swapping, not necessarily commerce.)

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  1. Collecting & Trading

    By captainron14,
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  2. BSA Musician Collar Pins

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  3. Will swap old Junior badges for new IPs

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  4. Help identifying a merit badge

    By infoscouter,
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  5. Red and White Council Strips

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  6. Looking for Girl Scout Geology Interest Project

    By Jayne1955,
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  7. LSA Lone Scout Patch Question

    By Tim-PY,
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  8. Custom Chameleon Patrol Emblems

    By dave.424,
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  9. Looking for Old Scoutmaster Hat pin

    By captainron14,
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  10. Patch trading from Maine

    By moxieman,
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  11. New Orleans area council Jambo patch

    By Pack378,
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  12. Seeking Older style Pack Committee Chair Patch

    By Miteysix,
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  13. Starting my patch scouting collection

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  14. Hat Pins / Plumes

    By captainron14,
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  15. Jac-Shirt Patch

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    • AwakeEnergyScouter
      Coed Troops

      By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted

      No, it was a summer model without a wood stove, but all the combined body heat also did help on chilly spring, summer, and fall nights. We did lie right next to each other (resulting in quite a bit of trying not to step on your patrolmates when you needed to pee in the middle of the night), helping hold on to our warmth. But backpacking with a cast iron wood stove and fuel for it would have been a bit much 😄
    • qwazse
      Coed Troops

      By qwazse · Posted

      Did you winter backpack? We always used our “circus tent” (actually a donation from the national guard) for winter campouts. It was the best way to keep an eye on younger scouts for hypothermia and frostbite. General health and safety might have also been your leaders’ concern.
    • qwazse
      Coed Troops

      By qwazse · Posted

      It wasn’t a mandate. It’s been a matter of course for decades. And, it would even be in place if international youth events were all-male. Public health officials’ deployed this strategy to forestall death. Prior to the 90s, the occasional newborn was always possible but didn’t mandate preventative measures.
    • AwakeEnergyScouter
      Coed Troops

      By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted

      Of course we did backpacking. And our leaders made us divide up that whole heavy monstrosity to carry with us. At the time I thought it was ridiculous, but now as a leader I think it was in part for budget reasons (the reason given) but also in part to prevent miscellaneous interpersonal problems by keeping the whole patrol together.
    • Armymutt
      Coed Troops

      By Armymutt · Posted

      So you never did any backpacking?  I don't know of any BSA troops that use giant tents.  Maybe things are different today, but we had 2-man tents.

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