It caught my eye last issue of this GUIDE, buried a bit in the text of Arctic Adventure: the new and exciting Ice Climbing Adventure, based at Camp Hiawatha in Munising, MI. It’s coming up soon, like next weekend (Feb. 17-19). Even further buried in the flyer: “Saturday lunch will be on the ice wall.” Call me intrigued.
Here’s what you need to know: “Ice climbing is an exciting winter sport at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore that becomes more popular each year. The combination of cold temperatures, plentiful lake effect snow, numerous waterfalls, porous sandstone cliffs, and water seeping out of the rock layers creates spectacular ice curtains and columns.”
Don’t worry about this being your first time, either. There is an orientation during Friday night’s cracker-barrel and onsite instruction at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Just like the first time you tried climbing the wall at scout camp. You do not want to miss this.
For more information about ice climbing, the flyer can be found here. More details about the three sessions of Arctic Adventure can be found here.
Last weekend, I sent to a Scout friend a New York Times recipe for kale—that leafy, green vegetable that rolls right out of most people’s mouths. To be honest, I am still trying to figure out how to intake the “stuff,” so I was intrigued by the NYT directions to create Hearty Kale, Squash and Bean Soup. My friend agreed with my lovely bride: it is a nonstarter in her home as well.
As 2023 unfolds, I am sure many of us have already encountered at least one distasteful “thing,” be it work, home, recreation, play, etc. No matter how much we chew or try to “spice” it up, it will always be distasteful. “That’s life,” my mother used to tell me; that, and “Get over it!” So we find ways to cope and to overcome; and, sometimes unfortunately, it means abandoning “it” for another way.
As Scouts, we share the B.S.A. mission to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law. Our aims are: character, citizenship, personal fitness, and leadership. Again in no particular order, the methods by which the aims are achieved are: the ideals, unit participation, outdoor programming, advancement, adult association, personal growth, leadership development and uniform. That’s quite the “mouthful,” but all of these words help each one of us decide how we move forward. Perhaps, it should be the single most resolution that we carry through in the coming months…and leave kale for those who actually like it.
Make sure we see you at camp…and real soon!
Warren Kraft
Program Development
guide@baylakesbsa.org
