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willing to give it some thought and
action.
• Give temporary leadership to a new
or struggling troop within your
community or nearby town. The
new Scoutmaster in a newly or-
ganized troop would more-than-
likely welcome the helping hands
of several well-trained and experi-
enced young men to help him get
the program on and running well.
Of course, your corpsmen must be
challenged to use their knowledge
and skills in such a way that soon
puts the duties and responsibilities
of leadership into the hands of the
regular troop leaders. In a matter
of a month or so, the leadership
corps of your troop should fade
out of the picture because they
have set the example and effec-
tively given the regular boy leaders
the knowledge and confidence to
assume their proper role as troop
leaders.
• Give assistance to a handicapped
troop. This could quite possibly be
an ongoing project, as opposed
to the suggestion above. Many
young people today want to do
something where they feel needed.
This would be an excellent project
where they could get highly in-
volved. We have learned that hand-
icapped boys take to Scouting,
but they need lots of individual
help—whether the handicap is one
of a physical nature, mental re-
tardation or the neighborhood
(like low income) in which the boys
may live.
• Aid on training teams. It could well
be that your leadership corps will
be asked to develop portions of
demonstrations or learning experi-
ences for outdoor and leadership
skill training opportunities for both
adult and troop leaders. But why
wait to be asked? Let your leader-
ship corps offer their services be-
cause they feel qualified and .they
need to be fulfilled.
Suggest these ideas to your leader-
ship corps. You may be delightfully
surprised that these young men of
your troop will take to one or more
of these Service to Scouting projects
like ducks to water! They may even
have some fantastic ideas of their
own, once the opportunity is offered
in earnest.
HIGH ADVENTURE. The term "high
adventure, is used in Scouting to indi-
cate an outdoor experience demand-
ing the skills of the older, more
experienced Scout. The best-known
are the five national camping expe-
riences for Scouts and Explorers.
These experiences are made for
boy« who are of leadership corps
age and capabilities:
Philmont Scout Ranch and Ex-
plorer Base—137,000 acres of rug-
ged terrain in the Sangre de Cristo
mountains of New Mexico for camp-
ing, hiking, horseback riding and
other outdoor adventure.
Maine National High Adventure
Area—4 million acres of public and
privately^owned wildlands and water-
ways in central Maine, for primitive
camping, backpacking, canoeing and
outdoor special interests such as
mountain climbing.
Charles L. Sommers Wilderness
Canoe Base—4,000 square miles of
roadless wilderness threaded with
streams and lakes in northern Min-
nesota, for 10-day voyages.
Northern Wisconsin National Canoe
Base—at Boulder Junction, Wis.,
with 7 days of canoeing adventure
and camping along three river and
countless streams and lakes.
Mount Rainier Expeditions—
mountain climbing on this 14,408-
foot peak in the State of Washington.
James Whittaker, the first American
to climb Mount Everest, is in charge
of a trained staff. It is expected that
there will be six 1-week sessions for
20 to 40 Scouts and Explorers per
week during 1973. Expeditions are
planned in cooperation with the Chief
Seattle Council, Boy Scouts of
America.
These five high adventures repre-
sent the epitome of Scouting. No
doubt your troop's older Scouts
would be thrilled at the chance to
make one of these expeditions. They
can, too. But planning must start
early; a full year ahead of the sum-
mer expedition is not too soon to be-
gin. Savings must be started for the
low fees, reservations made, adult
leadership secured, transportation
arranged, and outdoor skills must be
practiced. Participants must be at
least 14 years old by September 1 of
the summer they attend any national
high adventure area.
But these five national opportuni-
ties are not the only high adventure
open to the leadership corps. Your
Scouts might, for example, plan and
operate their own touring camp like
the troop weekend tour discussed on
page 8. The leadership corps' tour,
however, might be much longer, last-
ing 1 or 2 weeks rather than just 1 or
2 days.
The first step in preparing for an
expedition to a national base or
planning a touring camp or wilder-
ness trip is to read Campways Tours
and Expeditions. It covers all steps
necessary to plan such a major
event.
International Tours—The leader-
ship corps might expand its horizons
even further and tour another coun-
try. Each year thousands of older
Scouts and Explorers make interna-
tional visits, some for Scouting events
and some just for travel fun.
Many traveling troops stay in the
homes of Scouts and, for a short
time, live like the young men of that
country. This is a tremendously
thrilling and broadening experience
for any boy. Many package plans to
cut travel costs are available through
the Boy Scouts of America. Write to
International Relations, Boy Scouts
of America, North Brunswick, N.J.
08902, for information about inter-
national tours.
Impossible dreams? Not at all.
Your troop leadership corps can en-
joy high adventure at one of the
national camps and it can make an
international trip. It takes desire and
careful planning. But these great
events in a Scout's life are not be-
yond their reach.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. As boys reach
the age of 14, their social horizons
are expanding. Many are in high
school with its broadening opportuni-
ties for social contacts and interests.
Some boys of this age are beginning
to feel comfortable in the company
of girls.
And so, occasional social activities
just for the leadership corps will be
program pluses. Typical activities
are:
• Skating or bowling party (with or
without girls).
• Hunting or fishing trip with fathers.
• Trip to a sports event.
• Swimming or boating party.
• Canoeing weekend.
Because these activities are easily
planned and informal, they can be
held frequently. The leadership corps
itself should plan and run them, with
only necessary guidance from the
adult adviser.
The leadership corps will be an
exciting and interesting group of
young men to work with because of
their growing maturity, their new in-
terests in life and your personal
knowledge of their past growth and
development within the program of
your troop. Just take care that, how-
ever important these young men are
to you, that the younger boy leaders
continue to be involved in the vital
functions of planning and implement-
ing the patrol and troop activities as
a learning and growing experience
for them.
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