Hi All, I just joined the mailing list and the email says "One of the requirements of new members, is to introduce yourself to the list. We encourage an...
Just revisited this site and there are more ideas. Click on a picture and Up to Gallery gets you to them and it is just on this topic. Gallery List gets you...
Amigos da floresta - Friends of the Forest (Portugese, Brasil) Scout Hymn - both sheet music and mp3 files 4. Creative Activities - 1967 - 1.2 Mb (from the...
Welcome Andy, You won't see a lot of activity here for the next few months as most groups are taking summer break. Some offer a year round program, but that is...
What do your groups do for a shelter when camping. Especiall large area camps. Do you have those portable garages, or just a simple dining shelter? I know our...
We have a donated prospectors kitchen tent, with no poles. This actually works in our favour: we can set it up in a variety of ways, depending on our ...
Eva
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Jun 8, 2009 10:59 pm
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For general camping, our Cubs/Scouts/Venturers use large tarps suspended from trees. If we are in an open field, then we have a 10'x20' pop-up shelter and a...
... Hash: SHA1 ... In my troop, each patrol has a MEC Guide's Tarp which they pitch between trees with rope (the MEC Scout Tarp is smaller; too bad). ...
... Hash: SHA1 2009-06-01 16:11-0400 Andrew Marsh <andrewjmarsh@...> wrote: [...] ... Yes, but I think he can of even more value in promoting better...
I've seen a garage shelter roll before even after being pegged....They're huge wind tunnels unless tarped on three sides. That was at our Family Camp at...
The pop-shelters, at least the one we have, aren't good in a strong wind, even pegged down/out. But they are great for protection from the sun and rain...
Advertising Scouting is paramount. In the Greater Toronto Area, Scouting is all but invisible. No advertising for the Groups (although they have finally come...
Eva
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Jun 9, 2009 12:49 pm
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If there is one thing the Scouts Canada staff do around here, it is school talks. They do an excellent job of those, and it is absolutely key for recruitment....
Like Liam's group, we do not use (or even own) any of the garage packages. Considering that they weigh 75+ pounds thay're much to inconvenient. My troop...
Are there no biting flys in Alberta? :) On my Venturer canoe trip last year, the most popular sleeping structure was the screened in dining shelter. The kids...
What we attempt to teach is that if a person is properly equipped then that reduces the amount of large, heavy and expensive group equipment that is needed....
We use a large canvas tarp as a dining fly. The canvas is heavier but it takes the abuse and the wind much better. It sets up fairly quickly. If there are...
... ....google-ing "pop can stove"..... Hey, those are cool. Looks like a good project for summer camp. I see many designs, what version did you make and are...
We have had hundreds of scouts make these so it is a good project to work on. I can't find the exact site we've referred to in the past but this one is...
Another option is the "Buddy Burner". The advantage is that it uses wax instead of a liquid fuel and is lightweight for backpacking. It also doesn't leak....
just read a post on the buddy burner (while looking up how to make one) that stated that food cans now a days are coated inside with a plastic type product to...
During our testing we found that even though wax's longer molecular chain will generate more heat than alcohol, the stove design was a lot less efficient in...
Normally I'm pretty good at this, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a site, that would help figure out how much to buy for. I only need help with 2 items. ...
Thanks for the help. Unfortuntaly i only got the information right now, as on friday my email addie was hijacked by a spammer, so I lost all my emails that...
We build these out of coffee cans. We did a winter hike from Camp Manitou in Ontario, way back when I could walk. We cooked bratwurst style dogs and the ...
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