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I am sure most of us have experienced Scouts not following good safety advice.  On Summer at a council camp, dozens of Scouts ended up in local hospitals despite heroic efforts by the staff to keep them hydrated.  Temps were in the upper 90's and relative humidity around 90.  Seems the little dears didn't like the taste of camp water and the trading post had sold out of bottled water.  :(

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Folks I've live in Texas for 15 years. We've done summer camp in state and obviously camp here a great deal. I've been to this camp and I've done a ton of backpacking.   I can tell you without a do

I think it is reasonable for parents to expect that when they sign their boy up for an intro to backpacking course, with adult supervision, that their boy would not be taking any "non-program" hikes w

I am also in Texas.  The week we went it was hot but not insane.  It was cooler than when we went to Hale in Oklahoma last year.

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