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Cub Scout Leader Outdoor Experience

Recently I attended Cub Scout Leader Outdoorarm and ruined a jacket while trying to stir
Experience training. This was a 24 hourbacon in the bottom of our den's dutch oven.
course starting Friday evening. If you are a(This had nothing to do with any inherent
leader whose Council officers this kind ofdanger with using dutch ovens.) Later when
training, I would highly recommend it.We werewe cooked with foil packs we had the same
split up into 4 dens of 8-10 people and didproblem. The fire got so hot that some of
everything as dens. We setup our 10'X10'the aluminum foil was melting and the food
canvas wall tents, made a den flag, cookedinside most of the foil packs was not cooked
and ate together, and attended breakoutevenly. Any part touching the foil was burnt
sessions together. We cooked breakfast inwhile other parts were a bit under
dutch ovens and made foil packs fordone.Actually, I didn't mind so much. I
lunch.Some breakout sessions were directlylearned some valuable lessons from this. I
related to Webelos badges: readyman (firstthink part of the problem was that they just
aid), naturalist (bugs, snakes, birds nests,used too much charcoal. If you can't control
etc.), forester (trees and leaves),air flow, you can still control the amount of
outdoorsman (camping gear), and geologistfuel. (After the experience at breakfast, I
(rocks and fossils), There were alsothink I would have done something different
breakout sessions on setting up camp (tents,at lunch.) Also, I decided that in some ways
sleeping bags, weather), wood tools (knives,pressurized fuel can be safer than cooking
bow saws, and hatchets), camp cooking, fireover wood or charcoal. With a propane stove,
starting.In the larger goup we were givenyou can easily adjust the size of the
information on topics such as games for cubflame.There were some other things that I
scouts, doing religious services atthought were kind of funny. For example,
camp-outs, how to conduct an effectivewhile on a hike, one of the trainers was
campfire ceremony, and specific informationtelling us that when we are on a trail, if we
on this summer's Webelos camps.We also had ancome to a puddle we should walk through it
evening campfire ceremony. The staff did ainstead of walking around it (which would
great job with this. It was verythen be creating a new trail). This was due
entertaining with jokes, skits, songs, and ato the "leave no trace" philosophy. However,
short inspirational talk at the end. Theshortly after that we were herded off the
inspirational talk was based on NOTES FORtrail to be shown various trees and plants,
KEYNOTE ADDRESS FOR JSCOPE 2000 By Generaland in the process people were trampling wild
Charles C. Krulak, which was about the Romanflowers. Also, they encouraged us to take
military roots of the wordrocks, fossils, and arrowheads that we found
"integrity".Finally, one of the last thingsto start our own collections. I always
we did was go on a hike that also doubled asthought that was against the leave no trace
a tour of the facilities. They also had usphilosophy.Another thing that I thought was
do a sort of scavenger hunt where we wefunny was the way they taught us to start
supposed to take note of something small,fires. In the old days, scouts would learn
something large, something beautiful,to start fires without even using a match.
something mysterious, something magical,These trainers emphasized much easier
something from the past, something thatmethods. Some of the fire starters they
represents the future, etc. When we got backshowed us included: dryer lint, cardboard
there was a little inspirational talk wherecoated with candle wax, store bought fire
one of the trainers talked about how an applestarters, and store bought fake logs chopped
can be viewed as being all of these thingsup into smaller pieces and wrapped in
and sliced the apple in half showing thenewspaper. Another attendee mentioned making
star. He talked about how boys see naturefirestarts by mixing sawdust and candle wax
through the eyes of their scout leaders andin a dixie cup. All these are interesting
how the boys are our future.On the whole, theideas, but they seem like cheating to
training was quite good. The only problem weme.Anyway, this experience really was fun and
had was with the way the cooking was done.very informative. Some of the sessions
The staff had brought in a big portable fire(especially first aid) seemed far too short,
pit into which they dumped charcoal. Therebut they were throwing a lot of information
was no way to control air flow, and the fireat us. Also, it was fun just getting
got so hot that it was difficult to get closetogether with the other leaders and meeting
enough to stir the pot without getting burnt.new people.
In fact, I did burn the hair off part of one



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