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I spent a very few short years in scouts as a kid, until my rural small town troop disbanded when the scoutmaster quit and no one else...

I got my start canoeing while in the scouts. I enjoyed summer camp so much that I starting working on the camp staff in 1963, after 4...

I was in Scouts from 11 thru college graduation, worked at the council's summer camps and was very active in the Order of the Arrow. I...

Scouting started me canoeing, bouncing from bank to bank in the C&O Canal. After a while I learned to paddle straight. I learned...

We started canoeing with the Scouts at age 10 and learned to backpack. We had an outdoor trip once a month year around. Our troop...

We had an excellent scout troop. Our Scoutmaster was a local WW2 hero to us young boys, that not only taught us outdoor skills but...

Were it not for Boy Scouting, I would likely not be here enjoying this forum today! Scouting and a particularly charismatic Scoutmaster...

That's me 100%. I tend to use oil because it's quick and easy to maintain but then I don't maintain it anyway. In spite of this I...

I got a Northstar in Nov of 2022, my first boat with wood gunnels. One thing I will say, @ABT is treat them with something before use...

My wife finishing setting up our sleeping area on last weekend’s backpacking trip.

A media picture (Accuweather), but interesting for U.S. South swamp canoeists because it is so rare: Snow covering a Louisiana bald...