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So you want to make sure you're doing everything a committee can do for your boys? Ignore that goal. Set for yourselves a goal of camping at least once every month of the year. Some of those months could be individual patrol challenges to arrange their own outings. Given a couple cancellations for various reasons, you'll still wind up providing 8-10 camping opportunities of 1, 2, or sometimes 5 nights. You'll exceed the pathetic textbook objective by at least 50% and won't have that sleezy feeling when you wake up in the morning -- even if your are miles from the nearest shower!

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Yes 10 nights us easily done by 5 Friday night to Sunday morning camping trips. It is really not that ambitious. Our Troops, flaws and all, does 10 Fri-Sun trips, plus 2-4 Five day trips for the older boys, a few overnighters for training, and summer and winter camps.

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Thanks all you have confirmed my understanding as it is an interpretation. The real objective is monthly outdoor activities with a minimum of 10 days of overnight camping. I will pass along the different suggestions here. they all are good. Thanks and have a good day all.

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Our troop tries to do 10-12 weekend (Friday to Sunday) campouts a year + a week at summer camp. We usually get pretty close. We only did 9 this year, but we had a lot of Eagle Projects in September, we didn't do one in June--our week in summer camp, and April was also a bad month. It gets complicated with Eagle projects and OA campouts.

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Did not know the commitee guidebook had such low expectations of an outdoor program.
I think the guidebook was designed to keep committee members from jumping down the SM's throat when he has a bad year due to weather cancellations, conflicts with Eagle CoH's, boys committed too many other activities, or boys that refuse to work the patrol method.

 

It's on us SM/ASM's to kick it up a notch and never be satisfied with a committee that doles out compliments for rudimentary work. But, you can't really put that in a manual, can you?

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