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A Scout’s Friday Night

posted by Eric Valentine on March 1, 2010   Comments (2)

Troop  514 Scouts saluting the retiring of a worn out flag.

Winter is a long season in the Grande Ronde valley. Local Boy Scouts, however, use the time to learn winter survival skills. Besides learning to recognize and treat hypothermia and frostbite, they learn how to construct a variety of shelters to survive overnight. This learning culminates in an annual Winter Camporee on Mud Lake across the [...]