I remember when we built a dirt road into Tifie nearly a decade ago, if you could call it a road. Each summer for the last few years I have endured the washboard ride out of camp, and twice got an oil change over it, if you know what I mean. Then there was the […]
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The bumpy, dusty road to Mountain Dell Scout Ranch will soon be much smoother. The Clyde Company will pave the dirt road leading to Tifie Scout Camp and the parking lot of the Burch Lodge at their cost, a tremendous savings to the Council. Scouts attending summer camp will have a much more pleasant trip. The […]
I love summer camp. I loved it when I first attended a week long camp in 1962. Four years later I was back there working and four years after that I was running camps. One summer at camp, I asked one of the Scouts to take a turn reading from the Fieldbook. He was embarrassed […]
Two Scouters, Joshua Phipps and Timothy Dukes, are visiting Tifie Scout Camp this summer from Saudi Arabia. Joshua, from Virginia, has been living with his family in Saudi Arabia for two years and Timothy, from Florida, has been there for five years. For both of them it is the first time attending a Scout camp. […]