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Councils offering All-Terrain Vehicle program

By Scouting magazine

Check out this list of councils offering the new All-Terrain Vehicle program.

Rev up summer plans with personal watercraft

By Scouting magazine

Read how a personal watercraft program can help rev up your Scouts’ summer plans.

Continue the conversation with Dr. Bernard A. Harris

By Scouting magazine

Read exclusive “extras” from Scouting magazine’s interview with Dr. Bernard A. Harris, including his take on the future of the space program.

Backpacking advice from explorer Andrew Skurka

By Scouting magazine

Here’s what the world’s best-known long‑distance hiker, Andrew Skurka, can teach you about leading your Scouts on a day hike—or a 100-miler.

A Scouter’s guide to teaching Leave No Trace ethics

By Scouting magazine

Old school or not, any Scouter can—and should—get up to speed by learning, practicing, and teaching Leave No Trace behaviors. Here’s how.

Colorado Scouts show their "wall power" in ice-climbing weekend

By Bryan Wendell

Inching up a seven-story sheet of ice would give most anyone a cold rush of anxiety. But if these Scouts and Scouters make it to the top, they’ll know they’ve found their “Wall Power.”

How a district planned a Cub Scout campout at a drive-in theater

By Bryan Wendell

Planning a night at a drive-in theater takes more than just popping in for popcorn. Here’s how Pennsylvania’s Trexler District prepared to pump up a bunch of Cub Scouts for camping and Scouting.

SummitCorps builds a trail to the future

By Michael Freeman

Breaking rocks. Raking roots. Digging dirt. All in a day’s work for Order of the Arrow volunteers during last summer’s trail-building program for the National Park Service. But what they really built was something much bigger.

A backstage pass to the World Scout Jamboree

By Bryan Wendell

After reading Senior Editor Bryan Wendell’s first-person account of the 2011 World Scout Jamboree in Sweden, check out more great World Jamboree content below. First, watch this exclusive video: Then catch up on Bryan’s blog

A New Worldview: Scouting magazine at the 2011 World Scout Jamboree

By Bryan Wendell

I traveled to last summer’s World Scout Jamboree not knowing exactly what to expect. I wondered if even Scouting could unite such diverse cultures and differing perspectives. After my first volleyball game, I knew I’d found the answer.