Foil Cooking

The Foil Cooking that we will be discussing here could also be called a meal in a foil pouch. It's an easy, no fuss, way to have a good meal with little to no cleanup. And a great way to teach young Scouts how to cook their first meals on a camp out.

Aluminum Foil Tips:

Try to always use "Heavy Duty", Industrial Strength Tin Foil. If you don't have any then double up the thickness of what you are using.
If you noticed their is two sides to aluminum foil, a shiny (mirror) side and a dull side. To help food cook faster and more evenly, place the shiny side of the tin foil in toward the food being cooked and the dull side of the foil toward the heat source. Why because the shiny mirror side reflects heat away from it!

"Reynolds Wrap" (Aluminum Foil) is celebrating their 50th Aniversary 1947-1997. Visit their World Wide Web Page at: http://www.rmc.com/wrap

*************Woodbadge into the 21st Century************

Brief History of

Wood Badge and Gilwell Park

The Beginning of Wood Badge

Baden-Powell took the first steps in the training of Scouters by

organizing a series of lectures for Scouters in 1911. He made great

strides by devising and instituting Wood Badge training in 1919.

Wood Badge recipients now number more than 100,000 throughout the world. The object of the Wood

Badge course is to demonstrate as practically as possible the aims and methods of

Scouting. Upon successful completion of the course, the participant receives a parchment

certificate and the Wood Badge—two wooden beads worn on a leather thong around

the neck. These beads replicate the beads found by Baden-Powell

during a campaign in Africa in 1888. They belonged to Dinizulu,

an African chieftain. In searching for a suitable recognition for

those who completed the first course in 1919, Baden-Powell

remembered the beads and decided to present a bead to each

participant. At that time, the course was called "Wood Badge."

The Wood Badge may be worn only with an official field uniform

of the BSA. The Scouter to whom it has been awarded may

also wear the tan neckerchief with its patch of Maclaren tartan at

the back. The Wood Badge neckerchief may only be worn with the

accompanying leather neckerchief slide or woggle.

Wood Badge Training Gets a Permanent Home

In 1919, W. F. de Bois Maclaren, a district commissioner in Scotland,

purchased Gilwell Park and presented it to The Scout Association

of Britain. He wanted "to provide a training ground for the officers

of the Scouting movement." Consequently, Gilwell Park became

the permanent home of Wood Badge training in England and

annually welcomes Scouters from around the world. The ax and

log symbol associated with Wood Badge is actually the totem of

Gilwell Park. Recently, The Scout Association has announced that

it would relocate its headquarters from London to Gilwell Park.

In 1929, at the Third World Jamboree at Birkenhead, England,

Sir Baden-Powell was made a baron by his king, and became Lord

Baden-Powell of Gilwell.

*****************Sleeping Pads*********************

MANUFACTURER	PAD TYPE	NO. RESPONSES
Therm-a-Rest (By Cascade Designs)	Self-Inflating Pad	19
Coleman	Self-Inflating Pad	2
Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS)	Self-Inflating Pad	1
Kelty	Self-Inflating Pad	4
Alp Sport	Self-Inflating Pad	1
Sears	Self-Inflating Pad	1
Cascade Designs	Z-Rest - Closed Cell Foam Pad	2
Volarafoam	Closed Cell Foam Pad	1
No Name	Ensolite - Closed Cell Foam Pad	1
No Name	Closed Cell Foam Pad	4
No Name	Egg Crate - Open Cell Foam Pad	5
No Name	Old Blankets & Quilts for Padding	1
Ames	Air Matress	1
Coleman	Air Matress	1
US Army Issue	Air Matress	1

Camping Sleeping Pad Poll

The purpose of this web page is to help Scout Leaders with outdoor product information. These are a continous running polls taken from Boy Scout Leaders on their prefered products, ones they have personally used in the field and recommend.

CAMPING SLEEPING PAD POLL QUESTIONS

What is your prefered camping sleeping pad?

Self-inflating pad
Closed cell foam pad
Open cell foam pad (egg crate)
Air mattress
Or other product (please specify)

And what Manufacturer (Brand Name) do you prefer?

CAMPING SLEEPING PAD POLL RESULTS

MANUFACTURER PAD TYPE NO. RESPONSES

Therm-a-Rest
(By Cascade Designs) Self-Inflating Pad 19

Coleman Self-Inflating Pad 2

Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) Self-Inflating Pad 1

Kelty Self-Inflating Pad 4

Alp Sport Self-Inflating Pad 1

Sears Self-Inflating Pad 1

Cascade Designs Z-Rest - Closed Cell Foam Pad 2

Volarafoam Closed Cell Foam Pad 1

No Name Ensolite - Closed Cell Foam Pad 1

No Name Closed Cell Foam Pad 4

No Name Egg Crate - Open Cell Foam Pad 5

No Name Old Blankets & Quilts for Padding 1

Ames Air Matress 1

Coleman Air Matress 1

US Army Issue Air Matress 1

Product Web Page Links:

Campmor - sells many brand name pieces of camping equipment.
Therm-a-Rest (By Cascade Designs)
Coleman
Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS)
Kelty

***********Swimming Merit Badge Updates!**************

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                        Scouts NewEngland (SNE)

                                 and

                       The World Scout Exchange

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Scouts NewEngland (SNE) is the Largest Regional BSA Scouting Web Site
and has an International Interactive Regional Scouting E-mail List
Group. We cover everything that's going on in Scouting.

The SNE web site has a calendar of special regional events, leader
training sessions, information on every BSA Council, BSA owned
camp, and OA lodges in New England, plus many other great Scouting
resources that will help your Scouting program.

Our SNE Home Page can be found at: http://sne.tripod.com

All Scouts and Scout leaders are also invited to join our FREE
International Scouting E-mail List Group called the "Scouts
NewEngland Network" (SNE_NET).

Our members communicate with each other 7-days-a-week on a personal,
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You'll learn about all the latest Scouting news, make friends and
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We currently have 940 members (and growing weekly) in our E-mail List
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with each other every day. So you don't have to live in one of New
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One of the nice features of our E-mail List Group is you will
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Your e-mail options are:

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You can change your own E-mail option at anytime and switch
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Thousands of our SNE_NET messages are stored in our 'Members Only',
keyword searchable, online message archives. As a member you'll
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So there's no need to store messages in your E-mail program or hard
disk drive and take up valuable space. You'll find our membership
registration form online here:

                  http://sne.tripod.com/join.htm

We would also like to invite you to join the "World Scout Exchange"
it offers 200 FREE Scouting Clubs. There is one for each of the
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offer you a place in your geographic location, to share Scouting
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You'll find links to all these clubs at:

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We look forward to welcoming you to our E-mail List Group and our
Scouting Clubs.

Please tell all your Scouting friends about us. Thank You.

Serving You and Scouting,

Richard Axtman
Founder and President of
The World Scout Exchange: http://worldscoutexchange.tripod.com
and Scouts NewEngland:     http://sne.tripod.com
My E-mail Address:         scout_king@yahoo.com

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