Scoutmaster Podcast 315

Opening joke about loving camping as long as nature doesn't commune back with mosquitoes or bears.

Mail from Mark Ray (Troop Leader Guidebook volume two update), Jamie Compton (reading material for first-time SPLs), Ralph Ashbaugh, Lizzie Kwok, Paul Clay, George Cloud, Barry Carney, Patrick Provert, James Montigny, and Dana Lenzo — all responding to the '10 ways to frustrate a youth leader' article. Preview of interview with Alex Kasev on outdoor leadership.

Alex Kasev, founder and director of the Outdoor Safety Institute and author of the AMC Guide to Outdoor Leadership, discusses the three-legged stool of outdoor leadership (technical, interpersonal, judgment skills), expedition behavior, group development stages (forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning), feeding and hydrating teenagers, and risk management for outdoor trips.