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When: February 1-3, 2008 What’s it all about? It’s an opportunity for Crew members to work on leadership skills and understand the details of how the Venturing program works. You will learn how to put together all the components of planning a successful trip, to ensure future trips run more smoothly. You will work on cooking skills, teamwork, menu planning, shopping and supply lists and all the other things that go on at trip planning meetings. What do you need to do? All members of the Crew will be responsible for dividing into squads of 3-5 scouts (adults included). You get to decide who you will work with, instead of being assigned to a squad by the Activity Chair and Trip Advisor. You will then work in your squad to come up with a well-balanced menu, determine what you will need to prepare and serve your meal, develop your budget, shop for your food supplies, gather the supplies you will need and come up with a plan for the weekend. You will have to cook using at least four different outdoor cooking techniques (Dutch oven, box oven, grill over charcoal, open fire or wood fire, foil packs, propane stove, utensil-less, etc) over the course of the weekend In between meals, there will be a program, developed by the advisors, to help you learn or practice some of the basic skills needed to survive a weekend at camp. Some of the Basic Outdoor Skills in the challenge could include any of the following: fire-building, leave no trace, packing techniques, gear selection, woods tools and lashing/shelter-building, flag ceremonies ,fire starters [making them], dishwashing, cleaning and/or setting up propane stoves & lanterns, knots for hanging dunk lines & tarps, how to develop a program and schedule and then stick to them.
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