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I've heard good things about Adventure Scouts from people who did it growing up. It's co-ed and from what I've heard, they focus on outdoor exploration and sur

I've heard good things about Adventure Scouts from people who did it growing up. It's co-ed and from what I've heard, they focus on outdoor exploration and survival skills. I wish I'd been able to do something like that as a kid. I'm definitely looking into it if I ever have kids of my own : ) Adventure Scouts: http://www.adventurescoutsusa.org/ http://www.adventurescoutsusa.org/

VLM 13y ago
If we're going to list groups that meet 1000 miles away from home, may as well list the Hacker Scouts org http://hacker-scouts.org/ http://hacker-scouts.org/ The weirdest part of the whole thing, is scouting originally started as "us boys wanna play pretend Army Special Forces, and whenever kids have fun, the adults descend on them with rules and regulations to eliminate as much fun as possible" much like little league, school, etc, and roughly a century of intense topic drift later, scouting has turned into boys programming arduinos and girl's parents selling cookies. Not that any of it is wrong, I'm just astounded at the scale of the topic drift. I never fail to be amused at the whole "back to basics" people WRT scouting, they don't know enough history to realize they might "win" the sex and religion thing, but going "back to basics" means no more pinewood derby, no more blue and gold dinner, none of the modern stuff, just extreme hardcore camping and a bit of marksmanship, pretty much.