Scout Life "Favorite Patch" March MAdness - Orange County High Adventure Patch

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I wanted to highlight that a cool High Adventure award patch is currently in the semi-final of the Scouts Life Favorite Patch March Madness competition. If you aren't aware of the competition, Scouts Life magazine recently solicited Scouts and Scouters to send in photos of their favorite patches. They then created a little competition to do pairwise voting, aka brackets, where every day you can vote for your favorite patch out of pairs. After a few days the patch from each pair with the most votes moves into the next round, and so on until the final winner. Right now the competition is in the semi final and the Orange County Council patch for the Canyoneering High Adventure Award is still in the competition. The patch is the one on the right hand side of the image below. The image on the patch shows the "Cesspool" which is a highlight (or lowlight perhaps) of a backpacking route in a slot canyon called called Buckskin Gulch in southern Utah. Quite an epic trip if you ever get the chance to go.

 

Another image shows the brackets.

 

The competition can be found at: https://scoutlife.org/giveaways/scoutpatches/

 

The Award can be seen here: https://www.occhat.org/hat-awards-3/wilderness-slot-canyoneering-award