Tag: boy scouts
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In one year, thousands of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts had memorable Colorado Springs visits
Scrapbooks and boxes of memories hold special older-family-member keepsakes from historic visits to Colorado Springs during two large Boy Scout and Girl Scout anniversaries in 1959 and 1960. Perhaps the next generations, possibly many of them Scouts as well, have seen the pictures and heard the stories and visited the sites just piecing together pages…
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Man-made Colorado ice wall fills climbing venue shortage
PARK COUNTY • “Whooaa,” Jim Barry remarks, as one of his Boy Scouts slips nearly 50 feet up a frozen waterfall. The teenager is secured, harnessed. The fellow Scout belaying digs his feet into the ground and quickly stops the fall. “Good catch!” Barry shouts, adding to the applause here about 100 miles from the…