Scouting, Volume 60, Number 1, January-February 1972 Page: 20
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And although 50 percent of the parties
have had no previous canoeing experi-
ence, the training is adequate to per-
mit a unit to enjoy in safety the high
adventure of Northwoods canoeing.
"Our best resource," explains John
Boehm, long-time director of the Re-
gion 7 Canoe Base, "is training. And
the training begins before the main
party arrives, for we ask each group
to send us its top boy leader ahead of
time. We run him through 4 days
of intensive training in canoe camp-
ing. We call this voyageur training."
The voyageur system, combined with
the party training, is what makes the
Leaders Stitt and Carroll (top) led
Post 200 of Greenwood, Miss., to North-
woods adventure. Roy Redmond (bot-
tom, left) advises beginners to try Re-
gion 7 first. Explorer practices knot-
tying, a skill canoeists should know.
Region 7 Canoe Base tick. The young
man picked to become a party's voya-
geur is relentlessly trained from dawn
to dusk in camping and canoeing
skills. He learns the primary strokes
for a bowman (the bow stroke, the
diagonal draw and the quarter bow
sweep). He also practices the quarter
stern sweep and the J-stroke, two im-
portant maneuvering strokes a stern-
man must master.
Voyageur training, when possible,
is taught in small groups of eight or
ten. Canoe techniques—paddling, por-
taging, loading, cruising—are empha-
sized. But the scope of the voyageur's
training is endless. He learns to pack
a Duluth pack, the traditional canoe
pack. He learns how to pitch a tent
and how to cache food in tall trees—
to keep it away from bears that fre-
quent the Northwoods. He learns
about latrines and water purification,
about dishwashing and cooking. He
learns many things that, quite frankly,
he already thought he knew.
The voyageurs in training are dog-
ged constantly by a trainer who some-
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 60, Number 1, January-February 1972, periodical, January 1972; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353658/m1/26/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.