Clark Green reflects on Roald Amundsen’s famous observation that adventure is just bad planning brought to light by trial, then responds to listener feedback on patrol leader elections from the previous episode.

Recorded while at Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Clark Green wraps up the troop meetings series with Baden-Powell’s century-old advice about trusting patrol leaders and concludes the four-part series on planning the future of your Scout unit. Includes a Scoutmaster’s Minute.

A long episode covering the three central leadership groups of a Scout troop in Scoutmastership, followed by a listener-requested story about a copperhead snake discovered under the patrol campsite platform, and continuing the high adventure planning series.

Clark Green discusses patrol logs as a practical tool for patrol leaders and senior patrol leaders, and begins a three-part series on creating a troop-based high adventure program—arguing that no troop should go without some form of high adventure activity each year.