Crossing over from Cub Scouts to ScoutingBSA is a big change, but then the new Scout gets to experience SUMMER CAMP!!
In these pages is enough information for the average parent to understand what is needed, what is expected, and what to bring with you.
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CONGRATULATIONS!! You are a new Scout parent. Now what? You were not a Scout, but your child wants to be, and you have no idea about the program, the gear, or camping. Well, good job. You found this book to help you understand just a little about the program, and the gear, you need to get started. Yes, you will need to buy some camping gear but you can do it affordably. The information contained in this book will aid you in making an informed decision.
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Camping and enjoying camping should be the same thing. However, when you start to camp, you may not know certain things to make the experience more enjoyable. This book reviews camping techniques, ideas, methods and puts into perspective the do’s and don’ts of camping and allows you to have a blast learning it. Nearly 100 pages of instruction and information, and chock full of cooking tips. Cooking in the home, at the campsite, and yes, even on the backpacking trail to help build your confidence. After all, you do need to eat, and eating well will always make a cloudy day a lot sunnier! Pick this up for yourself if you want to learn camping and cooking in the woods, or better yet, pick up one for you and one for a friend you want to bring along. Camping is always better when the experience is shared!
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Book 2 of the 5-Part EDI Education Series There are many flavors of EDI out there? EDI may be a mystery, but then again so is magic until you know how the illusion is done. Take the 850-document set, the purchase order. What is it, what are the moving parts and what do all those parts mean? T ake a ride with me through the PO. Let’s explore how the 850 is put together and learn in the process. Remember, EDI is FUN!!
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This is designed for use when you need to bug out or provide guidance if you are in the wilderness, alone, and in need of assistance, help, or rescue. It is also a great resource for those new to survival, camping, and backpacking. Read through it a couple of times, so when you need it, the information is there at the front of your mind.
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This is designed to aid a new backpacker in creating a tasty menu on the trail. Foods should require no refrigeration, their weight needs to be minimal, and they should bring big flavor. This book is more of a guide for the new backpacker, it is not a recipe collection because we all eat different, like different things, and our budgets span a rather large range. Personal cooking, is, well, personal. There are things you can eat every day that others may not want once. But personal cooking in the woods, on a trail for a week, needs to be nutritious, tasty, unique, and easy. It also needs to have minimal cleanup. So, hike the trail with me to learn the skill - or formula - of personal backcountry cooking, and discover the creativity within yourself to be a five-star trail chef, at least in your own mind.
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Book 1 of the 5-Part EDI Education Series EDI can and is difficult for the uninitiated to read. It is a "digital" representation of a human-readable document, like a purchase order for example. By reading this short introduction into the world of EDI you will understand how it is structured, why it is necessary, what a standard is and what the individual pieces of data mean, and how they interrelate.
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Book 2 of the Brigit Markz Trilogy A few years have passed, and Brigit has settled nicely into the universe. She misses her family and the other members of the settlement, but soon Ramona will be on the collection, which is good. A military department is assigned with creating a very high-resolution map of the Earth and is about to map the community's location. That could destroy the lives of nearly 500 members of the settlement and disrupt the existence of everyone in and outside of the community. Brigit's first husband, Brad, who was killed in a bear attack, returns to tell her about the mapping and the security of the Hill Life community. Do they protect the community from those in the universe or allow the community to join the universe and learn about life outside the Hill Life community?
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With the inception and construction of the colony ships, humanity is spreading out to the stars. The first colony is destined for Proxima Centauri, a mere four lightyears, or 30 years of travel time. The stasis tubes ensure the occupants will sleep during this travel and wake up in time to see their new home, land, and build a colony. Most of the three ships make it to their new home as scheduled, but the third ship, COLONY 3, is missing. Somewhere in the universe, they are off course, or worse. There are factions in their new space who want nothing more than destroy them; how will they survive?
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A thru-hike is a very long-distance hike. For example, the Appalachian Trail runs from Georgia to Maine to the tune of about 2,100 miles. Starting at one end and walking to the other is called a Thru-Hike. So, doesn’t it make sense to use hikers to perform a planetary survey on a new planet? The hikers can survey, inspect, learn, and report what they find — contracted for one planetary year. They experience something new, something extraordinary. The result is an insight into this new world and the ability to quickly create a viable colony while allowing the planet to flourish. While hiking, some of the contracted hikers develop new skills, and these advanced or enhanced, humans become a part of this new world, and the world has become a part of them. They have a connection to the planet, the creatures. It is not this group who needs to be watched, but it is their children, for they are the future of humanity.
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