This American Life: Notes on Camp

Camp kids explain how their non-camp friends and their non-camp loved ones have no idea why camp is the most important thing in their lives.

From the Art of Manliness

For the past few years, Brett and Kate McKay have been doing their best to push back against the emasculation of our young men and society as a whole at their site: The Art of Manliness.

I wanted to share some of their better scout related articles.

Gear Up: A Man's Guide to Camping

How to Get Ready for a Camping Trip Like an Old School Boy Scout

9 Easy and Delicious Foil Packet Recipes

Three Essential Campfires: Snack Fire, Cooking Fire, and Comfort Fire

Mike Rowe: Testimony to the Senate Commerce Committee

I have been referring to this speech for a few years now.  I come back to it time and again when the subject of undervaluing skilled trades and overvaluing academia, broaches.

You can read the testimony in it's entirety, here: Mike Rowe Works