Girl Scouts To The Rescue

When I was a kid growing up in Arizona, I belonged to the local chapter of Girl Scouts for several years. While I had fun going on a variety of outdoor excursions, and took great pride in the various badges I was able to earn, I had no idea the impact my Girl Scout training was going to have on future camping trips when I was older.

It’s amazing the instincts that kick in ten or even twenty years after the fact. Things like putting a bar of soap in the leg of recycled pantyhose and hanging it from a tree at camp, was a big hit when I was camping a few years ago with a group of “urban dwellers”.  They thought my technique for keeping the soap dirt-free was simply genius, but I knew it was a simple Girl Scout trick.  Stopping a fellow camper from turning over a rock with her hands, and showing her how to overturn it with her foot was another that I realized was merely instinct based on my Girl Scout Days.