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- From: bob.kenyon@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Bob Kenyon)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Scouts in the backcountry
- Message-ID: <808.1087.uupcb@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:38:00 GMT
- Reply-To: bob.kenyon@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Bob Kenyon)
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241
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- DJWBK>The BSA _does_ publish some literature concerning no-trace camping. If yo
- DJWBK>plans on doing any significant backcountry stuff, be sure to read it. The
- DJWBK>typical Scout troop is much too large to bring out into the wilderness an
- DJWBK>impact. Recommended group size is a minimum of two, maximum of eight to t
- DJWBK>depending on the terrain -- overstepping these bounds can often be the pr
- DJWBK>cause of aggravation.
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- Scouts Canada doesn't publish any books specific to backpacking,
- however, when I instruct youth or adults. there are some references
- that I suggest they read. One American reference is very good!
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- Hart, John. WALKING SOFTLY IN THE WIDERNESS: THE SIERRA CLUB GUIDE TO
- BACKPACKING. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1984.
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- The only exception with this book is that it speaks in terms of
- temperatures in the U.S. backcountry. In the Canadian Rockies it can
- be like "shake and bake".
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- . SLMR 2.1 . Bob Kenyon - Service Scouter, Edmonton, AB. Canada
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