| Messages 1 - 15 of total 15 in this topic |
Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 8, 2010 - 02:03pm PT
|
This is the Boy Scouts of America 100th Anniversary thread.
The very best climbers hang out in this forum, including Royal who credits Scouting with starting his outdoorsman career on the Rey Lakes Loop backpack.
I had my first epics as a young lad in North Idaho and continue today as a Scout Leader teaching the young-uns secrets like ropework, smokeless campfires, and fly fishing.
Post your tribute to Scouting on this thread. (Extra credit if you include the correct secret response to the topic question hidden in your post.)
|
|
TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
|
|
The Order of the Arrow! The only way to attain the answer to the question is to have the Brotherhood honor recognition bestowed upon you! And that is confirmed with a secret handshake!
I loved the scouts. We moved to SLC Utah and I got into a realy good troop there. Got to do all the things I always dreamed about. I was in the Bat Patrol.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
|
|
Hizzoner...
|
|
Spider Savage
Mountain climber
SoCal
|
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Feb 8, 2010 - 02:39pm PT
|
Tripl7 - It's not the handshake.
|
|
Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
|
|
Despite my quells against the organization's stand on certain issues it did get me started in my outdoor adventures and I have made many friends through scouting. I am still technically involved as an assistant scoutmaster in my troop back in San Diego but that is more of a formal thing now a days. Maybe later in life when I look back on it I will become a climbing merit badge instructor or something.
Soren, Troop 500 Eagle
|
|
bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
|
|
I only made it to First Class, but I was in for the camping and stuff, not all the badges.
Me and 2 other scout buddies used to bring wine in our packs...this was in Italy where you could purchase it easily as a youngster.
|
|
Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
|
|
Boy Scouts got me into the outdoors, and eventually that lead to climbing.
I was an Eagle Scout, I was an Order of the Arrow member, and I have to say that what scouting has become in the US today is something I would have wanted no part of at all back then, and no part of now.
|
|
guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
|
|
Ditto with Ed
Both Foott and I were Eagle, Arrow, etc and always in trouble because we were climbing-BUT if it wasn't for the BS we would never have started climbing. I was always a lot more fond of the Girl Scouts.
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
|
|
yeah, girl scouts at the disney parades we were in were nice.
actually, the hotties were wearing the costumes backstage at dland.
|
|
mark miller
Social climber
Reno
|
|
I was never in the "Boy" scouts but I did eat a Brownie, once or twice.
If I may "try " to quote Mr Clemens "I wouldn't want to be in any group or organization that would have me as a member". (Loose interpretation)
|
|
Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
|
|
Clemens apparently plagarized Groucho Marx. I heard that line in a B&W movie.
|
|
wildone
climber
GHOST TOWN
|
|
All right, it's about to get real awesome in here.
I'm an Eagle Scout.
And one of the last Vigil Honor members who was a youth in the Yo-Se-Mite lodge 278. I was the last lodge chief. Then I was involved in section politics. I was a section W3B vice chief (half of California and most of Nevada. I was Allowat Sakima in the Ordeal, Brotherhood, and Vigil ceremonies for a few years.
Order of the arrow was the sh#t. My best friends were Meteu, and Nutiket.
|
|
Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
|
|
I agree with Ed and Joe. Some of the ideals/goals of the organization are admirable, others not so.
But yes, as a boy from a single-parent family (I am the youngest and my dad died when I was five months old and my mom never remarried, she had a good career as a dentist), the Scouts were a good outlet for my mom to get me out of the house, I did learn a lot about the outdoors... climbing (really just rappeling), canoeing down the Russian River and other places, etc...), orienteering, etc. However, if I had a son/daughter would I want them to join the Scouts? I don't think so.
I made it to Eagle quite early and the Arrow and I was constantly asked to be a patrol leader but chose to be the quartermaster for a couple of years. As a QM, one can garner favors from the other lads, as the QM decides who gets the best gear/tents etc... (Troop 219, Mt Diablo Council)
But what turned me off when I was about 14 (besides starting to smoke a lot of pot and the only one in the troop with long hair) was a time up at Camp Wolfeboro when we had a temporary Scout Leader, an uncle of one of the lads. He was just discharged from the Marines, and around the campfire he was telling/teaching us how to kill a man with a knife so the man won't cry out. Not something adolescent boys ought to be taught.
I left the Scouts shortly after that and never looked back. Though one of my older brothers, Casey, was in the Sea Scouts and I went to a couple of meetings, but that was more to do with learning watercraft than any military yearning.
As far as the Clemens/Marx quote is concerned, it could be that Mark Twain took the quote from Groucho, as the latter was born in 1890 and the former died in 1910, so it was possible that as a young man Groucho could have uttered such a phrase and Twain picked up on it.
However, to the best of my knowledge, Mark Twain never said/wrote such a phrase (Clemens was a distant relative, where do you think he got the name Sawyer, from a cousin in St Joseph, Missouri, where my family was from before they kept going west. BTW, that is not family folklore, as one of my cousins in Washington state has the documents to prove the familial relationship with Twain).
|
|
| Messages 1 - 15 of total 15 in this topic |
|
Join SuperTopo
|
Check
'em out!
Let us know!