Oct 20, 2017 | Scouting Magazine
Emergency Situation: While hiking in Utah’s beautiful and famously snowy Wasatch Mountains, you accidentally step in a snow-covered stream. The water isn’t deep, but it is cold. Very, very cold. Forced to hike out with wet feet, after half an hour you begin to feel... 
Oct 20, 2017 | Scouting Magazine
The Dilemma Scoutmaster Donnelly imposes a lot of rules on the members of Troop 74, and his ban on cellphones on campouts is perhaps the most important — and most ignored. Scouts who can’t remember a time without cellphones chafe at this restriction and often sneak... 
Oct 20, 2017 | Scouting Magazine
When Dan Gunther was in second grade, a couple of friends recruited him to join their Cub Scout pack. Just over a decade later in 2004, the three friends all became Eagle Scouts in Troop 1589. That was not the end of Gunther’s Scouting trail, however. Far from it. The... 
Oct 20, 2017 | Scouting Magazine
Eighteen years later, Jay Perry still remembers the one-two punch that caught him off guard. First, his son’s Cubmaster told him many of Pack 3187’s families were transferring to another unit, leaving him as the sole leader. Second, the pack’s longtime chartered... 
Oct 20, 2017 | Scouting Magazine
As a self-proclaimed tomboy, Heather Haupt was sure she would rock what she calls “the boy mom thing.” Then she had three sons — boys who never tired of engaging in mud battles, playing football in the house and pretending to be superheroes. (They might have even told...