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Originally Posted by ke0me
I was in scouts, as a boy and adult. son is Eagle Scout.
That's where I first started camping, but it was way different "back then".
Any other old scouts out there?
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Both Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts for me. Made it to "Life" Scout and well on the way to Eagle when the family moved from Trenton, NJ to Reno, NV just as I turned 14. After the move, scouting was not a part of our life "out west".
Great Scouting memories from New Jersey. Great tent camping, winter cabin camping and week(s) long summer Scouting camps. I still use many of the knots learned a-way-back then. Bowline and clove hitch (Sailing), tautline and lashings (Antennas and their guy lines) and square (everywhere) pop immediately to mind.
Simple Boy Scout cooking skills have stayed with me as well. I am not a gourmet chef, but I'll never starve
The rifle safety courses at the Boy Scout summer camps were always fun. I can still remember the smell of burnt gunpowder on the rifle range and the range safety officer yelling "Ready on the left"? "Ready on the right"? "Fire at will"! Penny a shot as I remember. Single shot, bolt action 22 rifles. 10 shots then go retrieve your paper target.
Fun times.