Vince Cronin's Page of Boy Scout Resources

This page contains links to resources used in Vince Cronin's outreach activities involving the Boy Scouts of America.

Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files of compass and gps courses at Camp Tahuaya (current draft versions)

• Map of compass course, for standard letter-size paper (1.3 MB): http://croninprojects.org/Vince/BSA/CTCompassCrseLetter.pdf
• Map of compass course, for legal-size paper (1.4 MB): http://croninprojects.org/Vince/BSA/CTCompassCrseLegal.pdf
• Map of GPS course, for standard letter-size paper (692 KB): http://croninprojects.org/Vince/BSA/CT_GPS_Course.pdf

Map to Dr. Morrison's ranch and fishing holes (pdf file, 120 KB)

Benesh Ranch

• Driving map and directions to the Benesh Ranch from the First United Methodist Church (pdf file, 213 KB)
• Aerial photo map of the Benesh's Oak Rise Ranch (pdf file, 377 KB)
• Driving map and directions to the Benesh Ranch from Baylor (pdf file, 209 KB)

Mcdonough Deer Lease

• Driving map and directions to the Mcdonough Deer Lease (pdf file, 156 KB)
• Topographic map of the area around the Mcdonough Deer Lease (pdf file, 524 KB)

DuPuy Ranch

• Driving map and directions to the DuPuy Ranch (pdf file, 108 KB)
• Topographic map of the area around DuPuy Ranch (pdf file, 1.4 MB)

Maps Around and Near Lake Waco

• Paradise Trail, Reynolds Creek Park (pdf file, ~264 KB)
• Paradise Trail, Reynolds Creek Park (jpeg file, ~788 KB)
• Cameron Park (pdf file, ~900 KB)
• Cameron Park map (pdf file, ~240 KB)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recreational maps for Lake Waco (http://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/waco/Information/Maps.asp)

Map to campsite in Lorena (pdf file, 80 KB)

Geology

• Geology worksheet (doc file, 49 KB)
• Geology workbook (pdf file, 449 KB)
• Geology merit badge presentation (powerpoint file, 24.3 MB)
• Geology merit badge presentation (keynote file, 29.7 MB)

Web resources about geology
(under construction)

Indian Lore

• Indian Lore presentation (Adobe Acrobat presentation file, 5.6 MB)
• Native American stories (doc file, 76 KB)
• BMBC check-off sheet for Indian Lore MB (doc file, 44 KB)
• Indian Lore worksheed modified for BMBC (doc file, 45 KB)
• Indian Lore full worksheet (pdf file, 188 KB)
• Indian Lore full worksheet (doc file, 48 KB)

Web resources about Native Americans, especially in central Texas
(under construction)

Climbing

Web resources about climbing

• Scouting and Climbing (http://www.scouting.org/Media/FactSheets/02-578.aspx)
• Climb on Safely (http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/resources/climb%20on%20safely.aspx)
• Climbing merit badge (http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/advancementandawards/meritbadges/mb-CLIM.aspx)
• Longhorn Council policy on climbing and rapelling (~76 KB http://www.longhorncouncil.org/training/lhc_climbing_policy073100.pdf)
• The BSA medical form (Personal Health and Medical Record Class 1 and Class 2) that needs to be on file for participants in climbing activities. (~52 KB, http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34414.pdf)
• A page of links to sites that explain how to tie 30 different knots, adapted from a site suggested by Becky Henry (Thanks Becky!)
• Animated knots by Grog (http://www.animatedknots.com/)
• Knots from the ABC-of-Rock Climbing site (http://www.abc-of-rockclimbing.com/howto/learn_climbing_knots.asp)
• The Wikipedia page on climbing knots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Climbing_knots)
• On Rope 1 tech tips (http://www.onrope1.com/tech-tips.htm)
• Climbing glossary (http://www.touchstoneclimbing.com/glossary.html)
• Climbing merit badge information from meritbadge.org (http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Climbing)
• Merit badge worksheets from meritbadge.org (http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Merit_Badge_Worksheets)

Troop 308 website (http://www.troop308waco.com/)

Longhorn Council website (http://www.longhorncouncil.org/)

The raw URL of this page is http://croninprojects.org/Vince/BSA/index.html