Camping and woodcraft - Scoutmastercg.com

-CHAPTER nOUTFITTING"By St.NicholasI have a sudden passion for the wild wood —We should be free as air in the wild wood —What say you ? Shall we go ? Your hands, your 'Hanrts'! ^— Robin hood.In some of our large citiesoutfitters to whom one can go and say:there are professional" So manysuch a region,of us wish to spend such a month inhunting and fishing: equip us." The dealer w411name a price; you pay it, and leave the rest to him.When the time comes he will have the outfit readyand packed. It will include everything needed foithe trip, well selected and of the best materials.When your party reaches the jumping-off place itwill be met by professional guides and packers, whowill take you tothe best hunting grounds and fishingwaters, and will do all the hard work of paddling,packing over portages, making camp, choppingwood, cooking, and cleaning up, besides showingyou where the game and fish are " using,"and how to get them. In this way a party of citymen who know nothing of woodcraft can spend aseason in the woods very comfortably, though gettinglittle practical knowledge of the wilderness^This is touring, not campaigning. It is expensive;but it may be worth the price to such as can affordit, and who like that sort of thing.But, aside from the expense of this kind of camping,it seems to me that whoever takes to the woodsand waters for recreation should learn how to shifr23