Two days in the woods, messing around, botanizing, greeting spring ephemerals and returning migrants like old friends. Eating ramps on fire cooked hotdogs under 125 ft tall white oaks. Meeting an 85 yr old land steward who still plans for the future. Watching the scouts play, learn, read, breathe in the wild. Soul refreshing. I want this for every one.
Eerst opkomst draaien met de kleintjes, daarna zijn we zelf aan de beurt!
Met de kleintjes werken we aan een insigne (natuur!) En zelf willen we pizza bakken op het kampvuur!
Beautiful day at scout camp. Forecasted to be 58 °F (14 °C ) for our winter Klondike camporee. No one will earn their polar bear badge for camping below freezing tonight!
@mina#Scouting, summer camp, our unit on a get-away challenge to bring back a proof that our group of 4 reached its set goal, a visit to the Beatushöhlen, starting from Frauenkappelen on the outskirts of Berne. 8 francs provided for food, nothing else, débrouillez-vous.
We started hiking, then thumb out, dirty and sweaty, a Porsche stopped, an elderly driver in James Bond attire invited us, donning his scarf and leather gloves, goggles, when #Porsche was a Porsche and we were impressed. #pfadi
Last weekend I participated in Jamboree on the Air with my son's Scout troop. We were lucky to have some friends from a local club support our event. A lot of Scouts learned about radio and got on the air.
@etebur
I hope kids doing scout activities take what lessons are good + leave the rest.
I love to see Black US folks patch up those places where we were torn from nature. It's understandable that between the trauma of racist white folk not letting us explore + scars of farming under slavery, Jim Crow era, then Great Migration into cities has left some ambivalence +scorn about "the country"
Ouch, they are closing Camp Three Falls scout camp in Ventura County. Always a struggle to get people to attend, as it's in a dry, dusty area with very little water. #BSA#VenturaCounty#CampThreeFalls#Scouting
Zojuist bijgepraat met @tvanelferen, niet alleen over open standaarden en IT bij de gemeente #Nijmegen, maar ook over een gedeeld scoutingverleden, en: l'histoire ce repete! 😃
Verschillende #scouting groepen maken momenteel zelf een grote antenne om berichten naar de maan te sturen. Tijdens hun jaarlijkse 'Jamboree on the Air' ontvangen ze hun zwakke maan-echo's via de Dwingeloo telescoop. Komende nacht kunnen ze alvast testen, wij draaien de telescoop een paar uur naar de maan. #jota https://www.camras.nl/blog/2023/jamboree-on-the-air-2023/
We didn’t do knots last night so this morning’s delivery wasn’t too late…plus long time followers of my #ScoutingNewbie posts will know I’ve taught myself some already.
This book is pretty comprehensive looking,& tells you when you would use them. I’ll still use AnimatedKnots website & videos,I just wanted something more.
As for the other book,some of you will recognise this already.I borrowed an earlier edition from the library & wanted my own copy. Useful for #CheekyCareerChange & #Scouting.
The Cub Leader got the 4 Sixers to read a line or so each of my chosen variation of The Scout Promise, which I repeated back whilst doing the Scout Sign. And then I shook hands with the Cub Leader.
Very special.
And so I’m an Assistant Cub Scout Leader proper now. 😊
(One of the most outgoing Cubs came over to congratulate me. They are going to be quite the Sixer when it’s their turn. 😀 )
"We have many people in our unit that were going down due to the sun... had to go to the hospital... I think we have six people at the hospital" #heatwave#SouthKorea#jamboree#scouting
(this was pre-typhoon evacuation): "I think there will be a lot of pressure on the hotels and Airbnbs and stuff because if all 50,000...scouts have to find a place, it will be very difficult" "It will be a very hard task for the Koreans to organize everything.. if we take from what we have seen earlier from organization, I don't think they will handle it well." #SouthKorea#jamboree#scouting#typhoon#disaster
Yonhap News: " An overwhelming amount of public funds in South Korea spent for the 2023 World Scout Jamboree was used for operational and personnel expenses instead of for the setting up of infrastructure... (officials) went on dozens of lavish overseas trips throughout eight years under the guise of research for the jamboree. " #WorldScoutJamboree#disasterhttps://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20230807008900325?section=national/national
"In May 2018, five officials from the province went on an eight-day trip to Switzerland and Italy under the pretext of investigating successful jamboree hosting cases.
The trip included visits to tourist attractions, such as Interlaken, Lucerne, Milan and Venice. Switzerland and Italy, however, had no experience hosting jamborees." #Scouting#SouthKorea
Another week another image it's still a placeholder image from the #jamboree as it's still ongoing although now in a new weird way because of the typhoon warning.
It's weird and sad to leave the site before the end, as it just feels like we where finally getting into the stride of things. The toilets in our subcamp was finally starting to get toilet paper and soap after a week of the jamboree. I've had a wonderful, and exhausting time.
The #sunrise where pretty good or at least the one i saw waking up early one day to help with breakfast preparations, so thats this week's image as I've already shared a sunset image