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In a SURVIVAL situation you WANT TO LEAVE A TRACE! You want to be safe, attract rescuers attention,...make shelter, fire, smoke, noise, fly a blaze orange brassiere... I am DEAD serious about this. In a survival situation, burn LNT in a signal fire! I had an autistic scout who got lost and fixated on LNT, Damn was he hard to find and we almost had a tragic ending.

Well done! A scout With a Beard Never heard of Dan Will never grow To be a man. Burma Shave

Minimum age 18 as I recall.

Cool but where are Boy Scouts? Five college dudes as in "Dude bet that knee hurt hitting concrete (3:30)". Wonder if National is thinking of promoting the Summit for College Spring breaks and/or the Mudder crowd http://toughmudder.com/? My $0.02

"Train 'em, trust 'em, let them lead" - applies to dads and sons as well as scoutmasters and scouts. My $0.02

I dunno. If he completed Requirement 5 with a cat, I would award him the merit badge and the Pet Trainer of the Year trophy! Explain the correct way to obedience train a dog and what equipment you would need. Show with your dog any three of these commands: "come," "sit," "down," "heel," "stay," "fetch" or "get it," and "drop it."

At least one topic regarding Trail Life started by MikeB as I recall, also disappeared for no apparent reason and certainly no explanation. BTW some interesting decisions over at, particularly like using Made in USA t-shirts http://www.traillifeusa.com/connect/forum/program-materials/ Oops I, I'm fading away. Not just me the whole topic..... :0

Wonder if they went back to Venezuela? Just asking.

I just took "Utah Scouts" from the article headline. I agree not limited to any one state or CO, maybe Utah publicizes it more?

Wonder if their tour permit went for two years?

Saw this photo of two scouts who walked from Venezuela to Washington, DC to attend the Boy Scout Jamboree. Two years, more than 10,000 miles (200 Fifty Miler awards?). http://ghostsofdc.org/2013/10/28/two-year-hike-attend-boy-scout-jamboree/ sigh, nice to see properly worn neckers.

Call ranger, as a website may not be updated.

Interesting article following the Utah goblin toppling. Touches on lack of required training but not quality of training. No mention of tour permits or what training and more important what outdoor experience leaders have had prior to leading outings, extreme or otherwise. I agree about small (patrol size) groups for outings. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57029187-90/scouts-scout-leaders-utah.html.csp?page=1

Well, if the government checked contractors at any Mitt Romney residence, they would be off to good start.

While we have lost privacy, the government has lost secrecy and trust. We were the watched but now we are becoming the watchers of the watchers. We want to know what the government knows or suspects about us just as we currently do with credit reporting agencies. So if NSA is monitoring my phone calls, I expect the government to find and prosecute those callers violating my Do Not Call List registration, no excuses. Ditto spam. My $0.02 (any transaction amount under a dollar is not tracked )

Well in the "eyes" of this observant scout, what "real" scout would have two of the same merit badge on his sash?

I require scouts to read their respective merit badge book cover to cover before their first merit badge meeting with me. This usually does not happen, so class is dismissed and we try again next week. Old school. But a recent class was different, at the first meeting one scout had literally read the the book cover to cover. "There's a problem. This book is wrong!" "Okay, what is the problem?" "The Eagle scout on the back cover is fake. He is the problem." "Why do you say that? "His sash has TWO CAMPING MERIT BADGES on it."

I STRONGLY disagree regarding it's accuracy. I got Utah.

Someday, I envision a scout wearing a cape containing 120+ merit badges with a Schiff Reservation patch in center, after all that is what the S means.

No an open Utah state park, Goblin Valley State Park http://www.stateparks.utah.gov/park/goblin-valley-state-park/about

Never made sense to me to have different versions; it was like having kids recite a different Pledge of Allegiance from the adults. I'm old but have had recent stints as a Cub Leader and all I can remember of the Promise is "to be square", but I think that was dropped over 40 years ago.

Great idea. A similar idea, maybe some clever scouts could write an app which shows scout camps along any trip route. Some OA chapters publish a pdf of scout camps. My $0.02

Kudu says "Chuck Those Chuck Boxes!" http://inquiry.net/outdoor/skills/cooking/lightweight.htm I stand corrected. Different strokes for different folks. .

"The local Boy Scout council  somewhat ironically named the Utah National Parks Council (http://www.utahscouts.org/ )  declined to comment beyond what national headquarters said." http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57016443-78/park-state-rock-goblin.html.csp

I have these bookmarks. I particularly like the first. Kudu probably has more. http://www.remarque.org/~rob/t21/ http://scoutmastercg.com/wp-content/uploads/smpdf/T12_Patrol_Box_Plans.pdf https://www.google.com/search?q=patrol+kitchen+box+BSA+Engineering+Service&client=firefox-a&hs=7i3&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=EBy9UYKeJYX20gH_54GQDQ&ved=0CD4QsAQ&biw=1378&bih=838