The Scoutmaster Minute

My 30th podcast is available for download. I had a real great time with this. I chatted with a fellow backpacker from the Denver area. His name is Jason Klass.We talked about Light weight backpacking. Jason has a fantastic blog called Gear Talk where he reviews gear and gives tips about light weight backpacking.Jason joined [...]

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When I was a Scout singing was a big part of our meetings, camp outs, and of course camp fires.I have noticed lately that Scouts don’t really like to sing that much. Why is that? What ever happened to singing? I love it, and as corny as it seems, singing is such a big part [...]

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It is that time of year again when we start thinking about paying our commitment to Scouting forward to the future.Friends of Scouting is the Council’s annual fundraising campaign. I won’t go into great details, but lets leave it here… 85% of the funds raised through FOS directly impacts the Scouting program.Summer Camps, Day camps, [...]

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Winter time is no time to forget about leave no trace.In fact, winter time is a great time to teach and reinforce those Leave no Trace principles with your Scouts.Winter camping offers a pristine environment where every day there can be new trails, things tend to disappear in the snow, and camping takes on an [...]

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Saturday was a terrific day of Scouting, let me recap it for you. The day started with Training. Our District holds “Super Saturday Training” about 3 or 4 times a year, depending on what the Council activities look like.Super Saturday training allows leaders to get their training done in one day (Expect Scoutmasters and Assistant [...]

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Since I am a gear junky and live by the axiom that “If you take care of your gear, it will take care of you”, I am always aware of where my gear is. Particularly when it comes to the Friday nights that we are departing on camp outs. We have a tool called a [...]

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Sometimes you stumble on something that is worth sharing.Well in my never ending stumbling.. I found this gem and need to share it. ATTITUDEby: Charles SwindollThe longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, [...]

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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” – Aristotle The Scout law tells us that a Scout is Brave.So what is Bravery and how are we as Scouts and Scouters Brave?Well the Scout handbook tells us [...]

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Continuing from yesterdays post on the Start, Stop, and Continue process…Here is the rest of my observations of this weekend… keep in mind this is the readers digest version.”As a Scoutmaster, I keep a lot of notes on the Troop, always trying to make things better and improve the program that we have. Keeping notes [...]

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It’s one of those days that you want to remember. Do you remember the day Ronald Reagan was shot? March 30th, 1981. I was in High School and I remember my teacher beginning to cry.Do you remember where you were the day of the Shuttle Challenger disaster? January 28th 1986. I was laid up in [...]

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