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Troop Library
The Ten(ish) essentials
"Tales of the I.C.E. Man":
(In Case of Emergency); an emergency preparedness newsletter from The City of Sherwood.
"Developing Community Resilience":
An essay on coping with stress, disaster and/or catastrophe.
"Winter Outlook, 2010 - 2011":
An estimate of the expected severity of the up coming winter from NOAA.
Lots of camping recipes, including backpacking recipes and food tips.
Trail Meals: GORP Great Outdoors Recreation Pages
The Geezer Cookbook by Dwayne Pritchett
Philmont Country Cookbook
Dutch oven cooking:
Troop Meeting Games
Lots of Different Games Here
More Games for Indoors and Outdoors
Helpful instructions for merit badge blue cards.
Scout Hut: A huge collection of skits, songs, games, activities,
Scoutmaster minutes, recipes, stories, advancement tips, ceremonies,
equipment and leadership guidance.
Scouter Network: A portal for just about everything scout. Has nice history,
fundraising, service, clipart, youth protection and medical issues sections.
Scoutorama.com: A large portal of Scouting stuff. A handful of skits,
songs & games, recipes and more
Aaron & Omar's Scout Page: Some good merit badge resources & eagle Project
ideas.
Current information on all
merit badge requirements
Scouting Clipart
Scouting songs
ScoutWiki, a free encyclopaedia which consists
of Scouting and Guiding related articles.
Eagle Scout repository of stuff:
Lots of tips for beginning and experienced backpackers.
Backpacker.com: Mostly commercial site for Backpacker Magazine, some good tips, good gear reviews and even some used gear for sale.
Chuck's Backpacking Page: Good gear and food tips pages. Very interesting
information about Wilderness Philosophy, Sierra Club and American Hiking
Society.
Camping.About.com: Collection of tips for gear, food & travel
REI offers advice on the
ten essentials:choosing gear, camping techniques and much more.
Sunrise/Sunset calculator (so you know how much daylight you've got for an outing):
Winter camping, from Scouting in Canada.
Winter camping gear, from Scouting in Canada
Snow shelters (some warmer, some quicker; not an inclusive list).
More winter camping information.
Gearfinder.com: Backpacker Magazine's search tool. Great details of products. Easy search choices.
How to tie knots and why: animated diagrams of knots for all purposes.
Knot explainations and when to apply.
Alask Museum of Fancy Knots.
I will knot!
US National Parks
USDA Forest Service
Oregon State Parks
Oregon State Parks, search
Washington State Parks
Oregon Camping Guide
Oregon State Trails
Washington State Trails
Official Scout Catalog
National Scouting Website
Cascade Pacific Council Website
Order of the Arrow, Cascade Pacific Council
Scout Jeopardy
Funny Letter From Camp: Another fun game. Fill in some names & read a
great letter from camp.
Orienteering for Treasure: helps you
print directions for a simple orienteering course.
Scout Hangman: The word guessing game,
this time with Scout words.
And another game for
guessing the function/purpose of knots.
Name that merit badge
The World Organization Scouting Movement (WOSM)
for the 100th year of scouting celebration.
Australian Scouting
World of Scouting: Gud-Day Mate! Take a look at Scouting Down Under!
The National Scout Association of Thailand.