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- From: ae110@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Frank Bates)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: should cub scout units have campouts?
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 07:18:16 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, macman@bernina.ethz.ch (Danny Schwendener) says:
-
- > ... One of the concrete effects
- >is that this year, the three-day campout on Whitsuntide (May 29-31)
- >will also host a cub scout pack in their own tent(s).
-
- What is Whitsuntide?
-
- >I was amazed at how that proposal passed so smoothly, as just six
- >months ago, the voices from the troop leaders were rather critical
- >on the cub and camping subject. One of the major arguments at that
- >time was that campouts were one of the key events in the scouting
- >program and that it wouldn't come as a surprise anymore to those
- >newcomers who had campouts in their cub scout years.
- >
- >What is your personal opinion on that issue?
- >
- >Should cubs participate in co-ed campouts?
-
- Yes. It gives them a chance to see what Boy Scouts do, and whets
- their appetite for being with the Troop. A couple one-night campouts
- will get them ready for weekend camping.
-
- >If yes, under what conditions?
-
- Limited camping for Cub Scouts is good idea. By limited, I mean
- one or two campouts a year with the WeBeLoS Den Leader's. A
- campout is required for the Outdoorsman Activity Pin, I believe.
- All Cubs can benefit from family camping outside of the Pack.
- The WeBeLoS spend a night with the Troop in a cabin in mid-December
- with a number of, but not all, fathers. It gives me a chance, as
- Scoutmaster to 'scout' out the father's for possible Scoutmaster
- Assistants or Troop Committee members.
-
- >And alternatively, should packs (or dens with older cubs) have a
- >campout on their own (as opposed to co-ed campouts with scouts)?
-
- Yes. Our Pack, 306 Mentor Ohio [Northeast Ohio Council] reserves
- cabins in the early Spring for the boys and their fathers for one night
- of camping. Cabins provide a certain amount of roughing it and still
- guarentee no problems with wet sleeping or cramp space; the fathers
- are like it because there not on the ground too! They arrive early
- Saturday morning and stow their gear in the cabins. The rest of the
- morning and afternoon is spent in activities the leaders have
- developed, usually scouting related. The cubs collect firewood for a
- campfire, either at the camp's fire-ring or in the dining hall
- (depending on the weather). Kitchen duties are assigned by cabin,
- boys and fathers together. After Sunday's breakfast, they pack up
- and checkout.
-
- >-- Danny Schwendener macman@bernina.ethz.ch
- > Wolfsmeute Nidau/Glockenhof, Sihlstr. 33, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
- > m.h.c. Troop 14, San Francisco
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