Tag: scouting

This Wisconsin winter has just been brutal. This morning it was -10°F outside. That’s just way too cold for anybody. I’m not much of a skier so I don’t enjoy that outdoor activity and to be fair I’m not really a big winter outdoor guy. I don’t like cross-country skiing or snowshoeing and I get cold too quickly want to go sledding. That’s no fun. I don’t really own all the special outdoor gear you need to survive in    -10°, snow pants, heavy winter boots, heavy ski gloves. I don’t got it!

I want to tell you a story about my first scoutmaster, Peter Lounsberry. He was just awesome. Mr. Lounsberry was a Green Beret in the Vietnam war. He was an Army something and his job was to jump out of military helicopters. In college, Mr. Lounsberry was on the Army football team and play defensive end. This guy was just HUGE!! His arms were bigger than my thighs and his thighs were bigger than my entire body. For fun, his football friends used to go to all-you-can-eat buffets and get kicked out because it would eat so much. Then after they stuff themselves they would go outside and turn full-size cars in their parking spots. They just pick up the car and rotated 90°. They thought that was fun. Well while we were on a winter camp out. We were staying in a area it was so cold that the thermometer hooked to my zipper burst in the middle of a night. That’s how cold it was.

So I done the outside winter stuff, I just not up for anymore.

What do you like to do outside when it’s this cold? Do you like to eat bugles? I love bugles.