Scouting, Volume 63, Number 1, January-February 1975 Page: 30
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LIFELINE
Thirty miles over rough mountains in a single day — just because they
wanted to.
Up 1 2,441-foot-high Baldy Mountain in slightly more than an hour
— because they wanted to see if it could be done.
A night on Baldy's peak, while thunderstorms rolled around nearby
— because it wasn't usually done.
Over the sheer side of 60-foot-tall Steamboat Rock, dangling from
a slender rope — because only experienced rock climbers had
done it before.
Almost two days without food or water — to see how it felt to
be really hungry.
A quiet talk with oneself at sunset on why you are not as good a per-
son as you would like to be.
Some of these adventures were shared by 50 outstanding Eagle
Scouts from different states of the union in the first version of
Lifeline/USA, a vigorous new adventure program for Explorers and
Scouts between the ages of 16 and 20.
The governor of each state selected an outstanding Eagle Scout to
participate in the program, so it wasn't an average crew of boys
who strung out across Philmont on the arduous 22-day outing.
Because of the ability of the participants and the Lifeline
stress on survival, leadership and confidence, the crews were al-
lowed to plot their own routes, make their own mistakes and set their
own pace.
Each crew of 10 was accompanied by a Philmont Ranger and a
U.S. Army Ranger, but they kept in- I
structions to a minimum. Each boy
alternated daily as crew (continued
on page 64)
BY RALPH MARSH
Chief Scout Executive Alden Barber
jokes with Lifeline Explorers.
(Right) Adventurers begin rappel
down Philmont's Steamboat Rock.
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