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Being in well-positioned troops in North and South Carolina, O’Brien, Chris Mims and I all traveled up and down the Appalachian Trail on many of our weekend trips.

Brandan Scully’s backpacking trips in New York taught him personal responsibility of being alone in the woods. “Every piece of equipment we had was surplus Army gear.”įor the Eagle Scouts that had the opportunity to do a lot of backpacking, it was done all over the country. “Camping was often bone-chilling cold with terrible sleeping bags,” recalls Hinchcliff. But as you can imagine, camping in Michigan had its own challenges.

Or there’s Paul Hinchcliff, whose Michigan-based troop did mostly car camping at state parks where there were rolling hills and open valleys. Then enter Caleb Brewer, whose troop in Mississippi camped on people’s farming and hunting lands instead of through parks, completing their five-mile hike requirement down a gravel road. Their trips mainly consisted of traveling Europe visiting historical sites such as the Berlin Wall when it was still in place. With his father stationed abroad in the Army, he spent the first year and a half of his Scouting career in Belgium with the Boy Scouts of America’s Transatlantic Council. We learned how to hike, orient a map, pack a backpack, cook over a fire and much more. My troop went on monthly backpacking trips through the Appalachian Mountains. While some had similar experiences, nothing was the same. As an Eagle Scout myself, I assumed that everyone’s Boy Scout troop was the same – backpacking through the mountains, extravagant trips to mountain ranges throughout the country and rigorous projects to better our community. No Scouting experience was the same for anyone. Of the nine Eagle Scouts in the Charleston District, their scouting careers took place in eight different states and one foreign country.

But after comparing the experiences of the nine Eagle Scouts that work for the Charleston District, one thing is sure – a Scout is… different. A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.