Course Director Michael Richards would like to announce the Montana Council Powder Horn 2009 training course for high adventure leadership training.

The Montana Council BSA Powder Horn 2009 will be held at Camp Paxson near Seeley Lake, MT from 8 – 14 August 2009 and is a comprehensive, “hands-on” course that is physically demanding, goes from early morning until late in the evening, and includes a back pack overnight. Total cost for the training program is $300, not including travel to and from Seeley Lake, MT. All participants must have a current Class III physical before attending the course and must pass a medical recheck upon arrival.

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The article in Scouting Magazine which lists the BSA Masters courses should be on your coffee table by now (I don't have mine yet, but mine is always late for some reason). The ME course info in the Jan - Feb 09 issue of Scouting Mag is the best we had at the cutoff deadline of mid-Oct set by the mag staff (Frank Rreigelman was able to get some of the changes into the article after that, but not all). We are actually looking at a total of 19 courses spread all around the country instead of the 15 listed in the article. One of the courses is for Philmont staff and the other 18 are set up for any/all vol/pro Scouters and older Scouting youth age 18 and up. Many of these courses are hoping to "double" into two courses with different field experiences if registrations warrant.

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