Longhorn Council Mountain Man Rendezvous

Booyah! Free-trappers, Mountain men, Flat-landers and Greenhorns!

Welcome to the Mountain Man Rendezvous!!! The MMR will be held December 29-31, 2009 off Lake Bridgeport at Sid Richardson Scout Ranch - Buchanan Springs campground. The Rendezvous is a High Adventure activity for Varsity Teams & Venturing Crews or boy scouts fourteen years of age and older. The Rendezvous has only three simple rules:

1. Look good!
2. Don't get killed.
3. If ya git killed, look good doin' it. (See rule #1)

Seriously, the Mountain Man Rendezvous (MMR) is not a Camporee where scouts just show up, with no work or preparation required beforehand. So, if you're going to the MMR, you will need to prepare for it NOW. That means getting regalia ready now and not the day before the MMR. That means making knives, sheaths and possibles bags. It means making a capote now so you don't freeze your skinny fanny. Also, it means working on the Golden Passport now so your team can qualify for early entrance and access to all Outposts. All Golden Passport Teams will be autumatically scheduled time slots at the BlackPowder musszle loader outpost as well as at Rock-climbingp & Rapelling. Everyone else will take their chances.

The Golden Passport requires service done in advance of the MMR as a Team, specifically for the Rendezvous. That means you can't piggy-back on an Eagle-Scout service-project or a ward or stake service project. It's purposelt done for the MMR. Now before you greenhorns and flat-landers start to belly-ache and moan, the MMR and especially the Golden Passport will do more to build unity and strengthen your team than anything else you will ever do in scouting or in the YM. Bar none. Yes, even Mr. Scouting Skeptic will be blown away. So trust us and just do it, now. Git your Golden Passport project registered now.

The MMR is the full-meal-deal for strengthening young men and their leaders. After the MMR, you will look back and say "Wow, that was incredible. How did you do that?!" And the young men will say "This is the best scouting event I've ever attended. I want to do it again." Everyone is energized by the Rendezvous and you and your young men will become better leaders of Scouts and Venturers. But ya gotta follow the plan.

The MMR is all about lots of Awards, Prizes and Recognition for young men. Really, they see a ton of criticism in their daily lives. The MMR is all about recognizing the good that each young man does. So, we have a multi-layered system for recognizing individual scouts and teams in multiple settings and situations, not just on how a scout or a team performs at an outpost. This is another key reason why scouts love the MMR.

Outpost events at the MMR include: Rock Climbing, Rappelling, Archery, Flint Knapping, Arrow Making, Double Ball, Flint N Steel, Bow N Drill, Char Cloth, 2-Man Buck Sawing, Caber-Tossing, Stick Pull’N, Stump Pulling, River Crossing, Knots, Travios Pull, LTO-OTL Puzzle, Trust Fall, Spider Webb, True North, Wildcat Eye, As a Crow Fly’s, Cannon, Bullet Casting, Black Powder Shoot’n, Knife Throwing, ‘Hawk Throwin’, Black Smithing, Service Project, Buck Skinner Model Camp, Trading Blanket, Campfire shows, Awesome Collectors Patch, Native American Dancing, Vespers Trail, and for Bragging Rights, The Colter Run! More acivities are in development but even with all the outposts there is no way a varsity team or crew will be able to get to all of them. They as a team decide which they will do and which they will skip. This is also a deliberatecomponent of the MMR. It teaches young men to make hard decisions and to choose. But they do that together, as a team.

One little tidbit your team will want to remember: We start every event on time. If an event starts and a team shows up 30-seconds late or we've barely started, too darn bad. No, we're not psycho. The MMR is all about teaching life-lessons. Team captains are instructed and reviewed in this key principle at MMR check-in: "To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is unacceptable!" Varsity scouts and venturers should expect to manage themselves, their time, and to put their scout skills & teamwork to the test. We're not kidding, either. Be Prepared so the bears don't get ya!

Registration details: Consult the reg. form or do a search on the front-page of the website and send it in as soon as possible. Please save yourselves money and help us to get plenty 'o supplies in advance. Register by October-1st for $26.00 per person. After 10/1/09 the late registration fee will be $32.00 per person. Fees do not include food so you'll have to plan for that. The sooner we know you're coming the more staff we can assign to outposts and the more materials we can have so you don't have to wait in line.

* Start Getting Ready NOW and Earn Your Golden Passport FOR EARLY ACCESS TO EVENT OUTPOSTS * Golden PassportProject Approval Deadline is nov. 1,  2009. TEAM Captains & CREW Presidents: find a project, submit the form and send it to the Segundo as soon as possible so you can qualify.

Questions or For more information contact:
Booshway, Stryker (Joe Woodwell)
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Segundo, LeFox (Mike Barnard)
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