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Choose your own Adventure at Entrada High Adventure Base

High adventure activities are a great way to keep older Scouts involved in the Scouting program, allowing them to continue growing and developing as young men even after they have received their Eagle Scout Award. In order for the aims of Scouting to be achieved through these types of activities, they must be thoroughly planned to ensure each boy and each adult leader in attendance has a safe, enjoyable and edifying experience. At Entrada High Adventure Base in Southern Utah, a Scout troop can receive all the assistance they need to plan and execute the perfect high adventure trip...

Service through Lemonade and Berries

It all started when Brayden’s grandparents’ raspberry crop came on full force. They live in Canby, Oregon and had more delicious, ripe, organic raspberries than one family could possibly consume. “Papa,” Brayden’s grandfather, asked him if he would like to have a berry stand and Brayden, a Bear Cub in Pack 199 in Wilsonville, Oregon, thought that could be fun. The 8 year old had wanted to do a lemonade stand for months. Perfect! Berries and Lemonade would make a great combination...

SCOUTING HOW-TOs

Going Dutch with Onion Rings

Our “test kitchens” at The Voice of Scouting used this National Onion Rings Day as an excuse to try some really good stuff and to finally break in my new BSA Dutch Oven. We choose three recipes to try, but most have common ingredients, well all but that mac and cheese. Try buttermilk soaked onion rings and fried egg filled rings...

INSPIRING STORIES

Brothers First Vietnamese-American Scouts to Earn All Available 138 Scout Merit Badges

Fountain Valley, CA– Irvine residents Koby and Ben Nguyen have earned all of the available Boy Scout merit badges, a feat (according to meritbadgeknot.com) accomplished by fewer than 283 Boy Scouts since 1928. The two brothers became the first Vietnamese-Americans in the history of Boy Scouts of America to individually earn all 138 merit badges...

DUT TO GOD

Scouting Serves the Jewish Community

After Christians, the Jewish faith group is the nation’s largest religious group; and since 1916, synagogues, day schools, Jewish community centers, and other Jewish institutions have used the Scouting program. In 1913, the first Jewish troop was formed. By 1957, Jewish Scouting membership grew to 1,367 troops chartered to Jewish religious and fraternal institutions...