Scouting, Volume 70, Number 1, January-February 1982 Page: 32
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Scouting met
with a chilly
reception in
Seward,
Alaska, until
Bob Myers
happened along
and got the
whole town
rooting for
Troop 568.
BY ROBERT
GRAY
Photographs by
Gene Daniels
Just a short hike from
home puts Troop 568
Scouts into the A laskan
wilderness. Catching
trophy fish like this silver
salmon is commonplace.
TROOP 568=
WE'RE HERE
TO STAY!'
1
Troop 568 went on its first camp-out
on December 27, 1980, the night the
bottom fell out of the thermometer.
Thirty below zero! That's not too un-
usual for winter in Alaska, but it
came as a chilling surprise to the 20 Scouts of
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Troop 568. When they left home at Seward, the
temperature was a balmy 12 above. Hardly ba-
nana-growing weather, but decidedly warm by
Alaskan standards.
First Class Scout Bruce Shaw recalls how it was
out there. "People started settin' up their tents but
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