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Posts under ‘Scouting’

Starting fire without matches

Nov 7th, 2009
by Michael Martens.
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The consummate skill of any Boy Scout is to start a fire without matches. One of the Second Class requirements is to properly prepare and light a camp fire, but you no longer need to light the fire without matches. None the less, starting a fire without a math is a fun and very rewarding [...]

The Rib Mountain Trail

Mar 8th, 2009
by Michael Martens.
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The Rib Mountain Trail is a meandering 12 mile loop located south of Rib Mountain near Wausau. The bulk of the trail runs through and around the Nine Mile Recreational Area, but some of it is on private land. The trail is maintained by Boy Scout Troop 453 of Rib Mountain. The trail is marked with [...]

The price and the promise of citizenship

Jan 25th, 2009
by Michael Martens.
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President Obama says it so succinctly in his inaugural address:
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are [...]