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Tuesday Scouting Hot Finds Newsletter March 28, 2023

Well, my cool camp school story of the day is we got to see the behind-the-scenes action at the Tooth of Time Traders (Philmont Trading Post). They have a very robust online presence and we got to tour their warehouse and see it in person. I didn’t know the OA has almost all of their stock thereof leftovers and it’s shipped from TOT when you place an order. Of course, I didn’t leave without buying everyone in my family a souvenir.

I’ve been trying to change the table I sit at for each meal so I can have interesting conversations with people from different sections. This morning I had breakfast with the lead of the camp school who was the primary Scouter that built Camp Powhatan in VA into a powerhouse camp in the 2010s. They camped as many as 10,000 Scouts each summer in the heyday. He had some really good tips for how they built it up.

For lunch, I sat with some folks from Colorado and had an interesting conversation there. It’s really bizarre to hear about all the laws that have been passed in that state which make running a camp a headache. Literally in our training room, we have an asterisk on the dry-erase board that reads “except in Colorado” as kinda the universal disclaimer for the week.

On eBay, I have 229 live auctions on some JSPs, flaps, neckerchiefs, and camp patches. I have paused running auctions on my other accounts while I’m gone but will do some shuffling when I return home.

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