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Camp Seminole Low Cope Course and
Webelo Crossover |
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| Scouts from Troop 45 spent Saturday learning teamwork and leadership skills on the Low Cope Course. Photos below show only two small parts of the Low Cope Course, the part known as Charlotte's Web and The Titanic. The trick on the web was to navigate each scout through the ropes without causing the attached bells to jingle. Just to complicate matters, each hole could be used as a passage only once. A bandana tied to the rope marked the holes that were "dead". The trick on the Titanic was to pass each scout through a "porthole" that also just happened to be on fire. Getting burned on the rim of the porthole earned a scout the chance to go through the hole all over again. Saturday night we received three new scouts during the crossover ceremony. After a cracker barrel, the boys spent the night at Seminole, where the temperature dived to 35. | |
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| A time of study and was needed before entering the web. | Each pass required a different strategy. |
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| Larger scouts required some extra thought and manpower. | Troop Committee member Neil acted as Charlotte, sending scouts back when the bells jingled. |
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| As manpower on one side grew low, tactics had to change. | Handling a full grown scout can be tricky on the "short side" of the web. |
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| "Think like a 2 x 4" became the credo of those passing through. | As different holes became "dead", they were marked with bandanas, leaving the last scouts with a limited choice of passages. |
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| The next to the last scout; the final boy used the hole he'd saved for a "no manpower" situation. | Trekking to the Titanic. No wet suits or subs required. |
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| Experimentation was needed to find the best passage through the hole. | The boys figured out the process to use just in time for the last few to escape the sinking ship. |
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The last scout escapes, just in the nick of time. |
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