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btw, he has been involved in scouting, counting his time as a scout for the last 36 years

OA, JTL Staff, involved with council, district (many since they keep changing areas even though council made promises years ago not to!) etc...

Yes, this is a new injury, the Scoutmaster has been on backpacking trips, survival camps, woodbadge, 15 years of scout camp at the particular camp, many 20 mile scout hikes at places such as Shiloh, Poison Springs, Pea Ridge, Vicksburg, etc. He is an Eagle Scout, and a long time Asst. Scoutmaster, Scoutmaster, etc.

He has not been on a camping trip with the troop since the injury, but feels like he could do scout camp with some way to get around. He probably can't do backpacking trips, etc any more, but car camping trips should be ok, etc.

Just thinking ahead nearly a year, but thinking outside the box may allow him to still participate at scout camp. This Scout camp is not the rough place it started out to be when it opened in 1976, even flush toilets and hot showers, good roads everywhere, pool, not a creek, or then a lake that has since been abandoned, etc. Everyone now eats at the mess hall instead of patrol cooking, the camp has became pretty citified.

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Of course over the last 30 years summer camp has changed at the camp in our council, used to vehicles could be in campsites, and everyone cooked their own meals and cleaned up with the patrol method.

Now vehicles are in a parking lot as they should be. Wondering about if a Scoutmaster was disabled, say from a spinal cord injury, do you think they would allow some sort of device to transport that scoutmaster? I know that an electric wheelchair would become stuck, and it could not be recharged. 4 Wheelers would be too much of a temptation for scouts, possibly a lawn mower, gas powered, could climb the hills, go across the fields, and a key could be taken out of it when not in motion?

Some campsites are fairly far away and up steep hills, it this person could not walk 100 ft by walker or cane, shouldn't some consideration be made so that his troop could still attend? Of course with 2 deep leadership one other adult would always be there, but yet if the Scoutmaster could not attend the meetings, meals, etc, he would not be of much impact at camp.

Any ideas?

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