Opportunities for Scout Groups
We provide a wide range of Outdoor Scout Skills for both boys and girls Scouting Programs. Becky & Steve have been involved in Boy Scouts, American Heritage Girls, and Royal Rangers, for over 50 years, both as a kid and adult leadership. We have specific training sessions available for many of your outdoor skill requirements including the group gear.
Basic Training Camp
As Christian leaders, our job according to Ephesians 4:11-16 is to equip others to minister with stability, integrity, and maturity.
This Training Camp is designed to equip the next generation to lead and live an overcoming life and we use an outdoor campout to accomplish this.
There needs to be a reset in the concept of why Outdoor camping should be led by kids with as little adult intervention as possible.
Once adults realize that the camp outing is for kids to learn teamwork, leadership, and their skill awards, the entire outing changes from frustration for adults and real purpose for the kids involved.
Older children who have completed award requirements at previous outings are your invaluable assets to train the younger children. This not only enhances their own camping skills but their life skills as an adult.
The Lord tells us that it is impossible to please Him without faith. Faith is our trust in stories of others. Confidence is where faith becomes personal in our own life story.
David wouldn't have had the confidence to take on Goliath if he had not experienced God's work through him killing the lion and the bear while guarding his father's sheep.
Confidence is built on personal experience including controlled failures.
If you are finding that the adults are doing all the work in running a camp--You know the burnout at the end of an outing. This training Camp is designed to model a great solution for your group outings.
This could even change your group's success in living life.
Lashing & Pioneering Tower
Ages 12+ & must have a minimum of 12 participants
- Knot class including: Clove Hitch, square, bowline & taut line
- Lashing class including: Square & Diagonal Lashings
- Team Tower build of 16ft Tower with guide ropes & Staking
Rope Bridge Advanced Pioneering Project
Ages 12+ & must have a minimum of 12 participants
& must have completed the Tower project at a previous outing
- Assembly of a 60 ft rope bridge across the lake
- Guide rope assembly for rope hand rails
- Spanish Windless and proper staking
Canoeing & Kayaking
This is a 4 hour session for ages 11+
The high cost of renting canoes & kayaks has made it tough to teach aquatic skills to children. Even more, the rental businesses no longer will permit many of the swamping and wet entry skills that need to be taught to novices.
Session Skill Set:
- 100 yard Swim Qualification
- Launching and exiting from shore
- Wet entries, swamping & restoring a craft
- Strokes-Power, J, Feathering, Back, Draw, Sculling
- Changing places in a canoe on the water
- Proper storage, portaging, & care of a vessel
- Different Life preserver classifications
- River Classifications & water hazard reads
- Safe Swim Defense Plan reviewed
- Reach, Row, Go demonstration
- Parts of each vessel & paddle
Orienteering - Map & Compass
4 hour session is for ages 10+
- Understanding & orientation of a map with a compass
- Map Topography, Legends, & Distances
- Compass Points & Proper use of a compass
- Practice Compass course @ Eagle's Landing
- Finding fixed position reads
- How to navigate when there is no line of sight
- Compass course competition
