[at-l] Advice, please on tents for my scouts

[Tamara Krebs]

I have been a Girl Guide leader for 9 years, always an assistant and never a 
Guider in Charge/Responsible Guider (head leader) cus I hate the paperwork 
and BS that comes with it.

I agree with you about the safety and removing harm where able. but at the 
same point there needs to be "safe" adventure. you can walk down the street 
on teh side walk (safely) or you can walk down the street and run into 
traffic(v.harmful) and luckily enough the Girl Guides of Canada has 
developed a Safe Guide (haha pun/play on words) that supports this theory. 
As Girl Guides we can not fly in a small plaine, go up in hang gliders, sky 
diving, hot air balloons, white water rafting and others. our insurance just 
wont cover it. But other things like hiking (when properly trained and 
equiped with disaster plans in place) can be done. This includes things like 
sqatting in the woods(without outhouse), sleeping under the stars(with 
shelter/tents/tarps near by should it rain), and what I think most of you 
would call putting hair on your chest. Mind you most of these things are 
taken on by girls who are 12 and up and not the younger ones 5-11, usually 
the younger ones are sleeping indoors or in tents with either flush toilets 
or outhouses available.



Tamarack
Moon Owl
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TamaraKrebs20 at hotmail.com

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