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I doubt this. Even if you laugh at the BSA National camp standards in the shadow of Irving, there are your state administrative camp health codes. http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=R&app=9&p_dir=&p_rloc=&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=25&pt=1&ch=265&rl=13 (i) Toilets and urinals. The camp shall provide at least one toilet for every 15 females and one toilet for every 15 males. In each male toilet facility, up to 70% of the toilets required may be urinals. In facilities with more than one toilet, some means of privacy

A North Texas family is grieving the unexpected loss of their son. Reid Comita, 15, collapsed at the Buffalo Trails Scout Ranch in West Teas, where he was at the beginning of a week long backpack trip. The temperature Sunday reached 105 degrees. His parents are awaiting autopsy results for the exact cause of death. John Comita said his son loved the Scouts and lived it. Reid had been on his way to Eagle Scouts status when he died, most likely of heat stroke. More information and video http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/North-Texas-Boy-Scout-Dies-on-Backpacking-Trip-428551653.html

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http://www.fdlreporter.com/story/life/2017/06/13/how-prepared-2017-national-boy-scout-jamboree/393527001/ Editor’s note: This is the first in a trio of columns which will describe a local boy scout’s experience with the 2017 National Boy Scout Jamboree. A Jamboree happens once every four years. an excerpt: ... More than 100 scouts attended this year's Shakedown, and the activates were focused on team-building. I usually do not enjoy team-building activities but these were very fun. I participated in a sponge launch, nine-square, “put the bomb in the bucket†game, and a “sharks

Welcome to scouter.com. I like when my wife yells "Dinner's ready". Hopefully others will be more helpful scouters.

Google scout reservation family camp site RV You will see some. I was under the impression those camps permitted RV's only during family camp weeks/weekends.

Tell us about about the adult rifle instructors and safety officer at the BB range.

I'd say their time is running out as BSA camps, maybe your Council plans to sell them.

This is a common plight for volunteers everywhere IMO.

According to the BSA National Camp Accreditation Program (NCAP), "procedures for separate use of restroom and shower facilities by males and females" has been in effect since 2013. http://www.scouting.org/filestore/outdoor%20program/pdf/430-056.pdf .

Separate facilities are mostly already done here in Northeast. Many camps book non-scout groups.

Outside Magazine, Jun 12, 2017 The Boys Scouts Should Allow Girls (And Everyone Else, Too) The BSA's latest policies are a step toward including other genders. Inclusiveness can't come soon enough. By Wes Siler I'm an Eagle Scout, a Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow, a former Assistant Scout Master, and an all-round proponent of one of the greatest outdoors leadership program the world has ever seen: the Boy Scouts of America. But, I’m also citizen of 2017, and someone who acts on the belief that the outdoors belong to everyone, regardless of which gender they’re born wi

@@Chadamus well done.

Sad update Twelve year old Scout and skier Frank Carpino has succumb to his rare cancer. His scoutmaster stated Frank earned his latest merit badge last Monday and passed away just three days later. Scout salute and farewell, http://www.wkow.com/story/35640029/terminally-ill-boy-who-skied-at-cascade-mountain-has-passed-away

The Camporall topic started to stray into past camporee memories, and so tell us your thrilling tales of camporees of yesteryear. Back in the 60's, our District organized 3 outings a year - a Fall Camporee, Klondike Derby, and Spring Camporee. Some were located nearby, but the more popular, were 100+ miles away in other states, definitely out of District and Council. Adventure. Memories: I remember at the Hickory Run (PA) Spring Camporee, the dinner cooking fire (wood on the ground) was started. We told a tenderfoot to fetch a "smoke shifter" from another troop. Off he and a buddy

Our scouts struggle with this. They would rather email or signup online than speak face to face or call an adult MBC, even one known to them. If our scouts email and receive no response, will they follow up with a another email or phone call? Unlikely. They mistype email addresses and wait weeks or longer before trying again. Same with wrong phone numbers. I'm waiting for the counselor to get back to me. We have scouts CC all emails to their parents and SM and their informal addressing of adults by first names or abbreviations is frequent. Maybe they regard email as txtng but with sp

I had not seen these 3 characteristics together before: all Boy and Girl Scouts, any age STEM focused partnered and located at a University

Certainly much to see and maybe do. I wonder if any groups decide NOT to cook, rather just bring quick no cook/no dishwash meals...hello MREs.

Good-bye Camporee? The University at Buffalo will host 800 Boy Scouts June 9 and 10 at a “Camporall†organized to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The 2017 STEM Camporall brings together scouts of all ages and rank – Brownies to Explorers – from the Boy Scouts of America’s Greater Niagara Frontier Council and the Girls Scouts of Western New York. It will feature a midway where about 50 organizations will set up displays, and more than three dozen STEM-related activities in UB’s engineering labs. The activities, which are designed to engage scouts

Welcome to scoutercom and congratulations to your sons.

Thanks for your patience @@Eph . Scouter.com is a forum for discussing Scouting, not selling items, even if they are scout-related. I have deleted your separate Baloo patch sales topic. Good to hear there are no trademark violations. That all said, I looked at your patch on ebay. Nicely done. RS

My understanding. Ticks first get the Lyme virus from mice and then drop off and find other warm body - another mouse, dog, deer, human. I have read that rodent population is up too - mice, squirrels, rats,.. A lot of deer means more hosts to grow tick population. Deer and other tick-infected species traveling miles to find fragmented food sources spreads ticks geographically.

@@Eph, feel free to share with the rest. Welcome to scouter.com

Light color clothing so ticks are readily seen, and staying on open trail works thus avoiding brush contact, mostly works for me. Firewood gathering and making a nature call often resulted in ticks. With stoves there is less of the former. Be prepared by first being aware. My $0.02