"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 10/16/2020 at 15:20 • Filed to: far side friday

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HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2020 at 15:25

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Whats funny is the idea that Pioneer skills are necessary in scouting at all. I am all about knot tying, but I’ m an old who likes that kind of thing. The youths don’t need to know a thing about ropes to setup a Ozark pole tent at a prepared property .

Former Scoutmaster.

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2020 at 15:27

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Wait.  Is that “code” for something?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HammerheadFistpunch 10/16/2020 at 15:36

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We made sure to do knot-tying in my troop - mostly because we didn’t do prepared sites much and flirted with things like tying up raincovers instead of tents for everybody.

I don’t think one should think of scouting skills as camping skills only, and rope skills as *life skills* are underrated.

HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2020 at 15:39

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I tried as well, our big scout camp for the year was in escalante.

ranwhenparked > HammerheadFistpunch 10/16/2020 at 15:41

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I was a professional Scouter for 6 years, and can confirm. Barely learned the square knot myself.

Velcro would have been nice for the uniforms, though. Either that, or a major reduction in the amount of required patches. Every time I got promoted, I just stapled the new position insignia over the old one and left it like that until my boss said something, because I was too lazy to go to the dry cleaners.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HammerheadFistpunch 10/16/2020 at 16:01

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I grant that a lot of places in the west aren’t crazy with trees, but anywhere around here one goes camping, there are things to tie to, and there’s a lot of rain, so... lots of people using Eno tent hammocks, one has to put a cover over the firewood, etc. etc. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 10/16/2020 at 16:03

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Couldn’t say. All I can say is the idea of a rope bridge put together with velcro makes me snicker.

HammerheadFistpunch > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/16/2020 at 16:09

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Trees and rain are certainly not things in abundance here. Not in the desert at least.