Ranger Camping is about learning skills and responsibilities associated with primitive camping. Pop-up campers are great for camping with the family, but their emphasis is on leisure. Rangers need to have fun on a campout for sure, but the experience is most productive if it's fun at a cost. Also, when council fire time comes around, I think the boys are more focused if the camp has had the give-and-take and struggles common to daily life. Years ago, our outpost made the mistake of putting all the boys up in our three 16 x 20 wall tents. One commander joked you could stack Pioneers in one of those like cord wood. We have more recently come back around to 4-man tents. We put two or three boys with their gear in each one and they have a much better sense of responsibility for their own tent. Our next challenge is to stop depending on the mess trailer with stoves inside and a big hinged awning and counter that opens up on one side to serve food out of. It makes it easier for us to do all the cooking than if we had the boys do their own. ...Easier, but it doesn't teach them responsibility. I would tell him no.
-Commander D Perich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Commander Pier Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RR] What would you do? My brother wanted to get involved with his church's outpost. He asked the Senior Commander if he could bring his pop up tent camper when the outpost goes camping. What would you tell him? Kelvin _______ List host: http://Kahunapule.org List info: http://RangerNet.org/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://RangerNet.org/subscribe.htm _______ List host: http://Kahunapule.org List info: http://RangerNet.org/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://RangerNet.org/subscribe.htm
