Last month, July 13-17, 2012, we were lucky enough to take 8 Venturers to the Summit Bechtel Reserve. This fabulous new high-adventure base and permanent home to the BSA National jamborees (and host of the 2019 World Scout Jamboree) is over 10,000 acres of wild wonderful West Virginia in Steve's hometown of Mount Hope. We got an awesome peek at parts of the plans for the 2013 Jamboree and got to pay for the privilege of being test subjects for their processes and plans. Some when as planned, some didn't, but the 2013 National Jamboree will be so much better since we were there. With about 2,000 attendees we saw and participated in camping at subcamp C, hiking to Action Point, Adventure Valley and Garden Ground mountain. At Action point there was canopy tours, zip lines, challenge rope courses, climbing towers, skate boarding, BMX biking and more. At Adventure Valley at low gear and high gear there was mountain biking. On the last day the Venturers and Scouts went whitewater rafting. We were paired with new friends from Kansas and Virginia and nightly heard from the folks at the top of the great enterprise that SBR represents. You can see much of this in our pictures below.
Enjoy these photos taken on our trip to SBR
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Two aging scouters having fun in the outdoors and learning a few lessons along the way.
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