[at-l] Advice, please on tents for my scouts

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On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 19:37 -0500, Tamara Krebs wrote:
> I have been a Girl Guide leader for 9 years, always an assistant and never a 
> Guider in Charge/Responsible Guider (head leader) cus I hate the paperwork 
> and BS that comes with it.
> 

Right!  I much prefer the 2d fiddle position.  I can enjoy the program
without having the headaches of being the big man.  

The BSA has the same kind of restrictions that you mention.  Reasonable
adventure is great.  They really don't want you to have problems in the
field tho'.  Losing a boy (or an adult) is not a happy experience.  The
one we lost is still remembered, 30 years later.

As far as getting out in the woods, we do that, sometimes.  I prefer it
when we do and I think the boys do also.  We just can't force them into
the adventuresome lifestyle.  We have the "Guide to Safe Scouting".  If
we want to do anything, first we read the book.  It tells us what is
(non)permitted.

For what was intended to be a tongue in cheek response to Dawg's
comment, this has gotten way beyond anywhere I intended to go.  I am
glad that the Canadian GG have the opportunities to get out in the
woods.  My daughters refused to be girl scouts because of their
preception that the GSA was waymore into little housekeepers than hikers
in the woods.  My youngest was irritrated for years that she couldn't be
a boy scout.

Lurker

> I agree with you about the safety and removing harm where able. but at the 
> same point there needs to be "safe" adventure. you can walk down the street 
> on teh side walk (safely) or you can walk down the street and run into 
> traffic(v.harmful) and luckily enough the Girl Guides of Canada has 
> developed a Safe Guide (haha pun/play on words) that supports this theory. 
> As Girl Guides we can not fly in a small plaine, go up in hang gliders, sky 
> diving, hot air balloons, white water rafting and others. our insurance just 
> wont cover it. But other things like hiking (when properly trained and 
> equiped with disaster plans in place) can be done. This includes things like 
> sqatting in the woods(without outhouse), sleeping under the stars(with 
> shelter/tents/tarps near by should it rain), and what I think most of you 
> would call putting hair on your chest. Mind you most of these things are 
> taken on by girls who are 12 and up and not the younger ones 5-11, usually 
> the younger ones are sleeping indoors or in tents with either flush toilets 
> or outhouses available.
> 
> 
> 
> Tamarack
> Moon Owl
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