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In this podcast We talk about high adventure, answer email questions on a ‘one man show’ and a bullying incident, and share a great Scoutmaster’s Minute. All this and your messages in the mailbag!
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The excellent nugget in this podcast: Logistical success vs. Mission success.
Wow did my ears perk up at that! This is one that also applies to so much more than scouting.
Clarke,
Where did you hear these two terms together?
John
I was pretty happy with the juxtaposition of logistical success and mission success (I have never heard it before, it kind of came to me as I was writing). It expresses a complex idea in simple terms. It’s not an uncommon idea; “the operation was a success but the patient died” or “it became necessary to destroy the town to save it” come to mind.
One of the more important things we can do as Scouters is figure out what target to aim at and what constitutes success. We can get distracted by things that aren’t bad, like trouble free logistics, but aren’t actually achieving the aim.
Recently stumbled onto the cast and am enjoying it. I played the recent segment of Brick Mason (my first) to my son, and he looked at me and asked “is this where you are getting all those stupid jokes?!”
On the topic of High Adventure: as a relatively new Scouter, I was puzzled at the strong pull within our troop to do the HA camps that had higher costs with them. I could not figure out why we would go backpacking in New Mexico when we lived in one of the most wonderful places to go backpacking: Colorado. Our Scouts are in the midst of planning and preparation of a backpacking trip on the Colorado Trail – at probably 1/10th the cost of what it would be to go to Philmont, and we hope it will give them an appreciation of the wonder in their own backyard.
Keep up the good fight and thank you.
To go to Philmont with our Council crew costs over $2k (plus required equipment and spending money), requires many days of meetings, training, and shakedowns and lasts for two weeks. The time required is the first stumbling block for a lot of people, and the length of the trip is the second, the cost is the third. I don’t have too many families involved in our troop who can make it past the first hurdle never mind the other two.
Our trip to Algonquin costs around $6-700.00, does not require purchasing any gear, or attending too many meetings or lengthy shakedowns, and lasts a week. Most of our families have both the time and money for that trip.