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LONGHORN COUNCIL Texas High Adventure Base TEXAS SUMMER CAMPS Choose from five High Adventure programs and Sign Up Online Today! HIGH ADVENTURE BASE While your older youth attend the unique and exciting programs of the Texas High Adventure Base, younger Sign Up Online Today! Scouts can attend one of the Longhorn Council’s three summer camps: Camp Tahuaya, Worth Ranch, and Sid Richardson Scout Ranch. Worth Ranch Worth is one of Ameri- ca’s oldest and finest traditional Scouting programs. Located 60 miles west of Fort Worth on the Brazos River at the foot of Kyle Mountain. Your Scouts can climb, fish, row, canoe, kayak, hike Kyle Mountain, swim in our 2 pools, see outstanding campfires, and eat in CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE! our big air-conditioned Duncan Dining Hall. Worth hosts our Brazos River Canoe Trip 50 miler. Chisholm Trail Adventure Our Flagship Program Camp Tahuaya Camp Tahuaya is a beau- Steele Island Wakeboarding tiful, heavily forested 150 acre camp 50 miles Brazos River Canoe Trip north of Austin with the Texas Kayak & Caving Trek largest natural spring in Texas. Tahuaya features OA High Adventure Trail Crew an outstanding First Year Camper Program, trout and bass fishing in a spring-fed lake, and a huge model rail- road facility, and hosts our Sea Kayak & Caving Trek. Sid Richardson Scout Ranch (SR2) Texas–size camp with 15 miles of rugged SIGN UP ONLINE TODAY! shoreline on a 10,000 acre Lake. SR2 offers at over 70 Merit Badges, an air-conditioned din- www.longhorncouncil.org ing hall, large pool, Technology Center, PO Box 54190 Flight Simulation Center with 16 networked F-16 cockpits 850 Cannon Drive (featured in Scouting Magazine’s Cool Camp section), Hurst, TX 76054 Longhorn Council BSA horsemanship, Sailing Base, Blobs, and much more. SR2 Phone: 817-231-8537 PO Box 54190 hosts Chisholm Trail—our flagship high adventure program. Fax: 817-231-8600 850 Cannon Drive E-mail: [email protected] Hurst, TX 76054 Choose Your High Adventure - Sign up Online Today! BRAZOS RIVER CANOE TRIP CHISHOLM TRAIL ADVENTURE A 50-mile canoe Troops, Crews, and other groups from 44 states, ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, and MEXICO have come to CHISHOLM TRAIL! camping trek that’s a GET A BOAT FOR A WEEK! Drone Racing Worth Ranch tradi- Get one of our 24 pontoon boats for a Fly racing drones through race tion! Earn BSA’s 50 week to travel to the high adventure gates and flags. Try FPV (first Miler award. BRCT is outposts and watersports bases on our person view) goggles and see a great high adventure 15 miles of shoreline on 15,000 acre what the drone sees. prep trip for a North- Lake Bridgeport. Must be 13 or older. ern Tier Trek. Any Sporting Clays Troop or Crew may send a group to BRCT. HIGH ADVENTURE OUTPOSTS Skeet shooting that simulates the flight patterns of real game U.S. Cavalry birds & rabbits. You’ll shoot AYAK AVING REK K & C T “Fall in, Trooper!” It’s 1874 and you’re a new 40-50 targets at our Outpost. The trek is for groups recruit in the 4th U.S. Cavalry Regiment. We'll of 12+ older youth train with cannons and carbines and move out to Climbing On our 5 miles of big cliffs. and adults, usually fight in a Texas frontier battle reenactment. Our climbers have opened new Vikings routes for all levels from 5.8 Welcome to our Viking Village! We'll sail and beginner to 5.10+ advanced! row a Viking ship on Lake Bridgeport, share a hearty Norse supper, learn medieval combat Highland Games Scottish athletic competitions - with younger Scouts camping skills, and then use our Viking shields and weap- like Braemar Stone, Hammer at Tahuaya. ons to fight in Viking battle reenactments! Throw, and Caber Toss - with Texas Rangers real Highland games gear. Experience the life of a volunteer Ranger on the STEELE ISLAND WAKEBOARD Texas frontier! It’s 1842 and the Griffin ranch WATERSPORTS BASES Spend a week devel- has been robbed. Join the local Texas Ranger oping your wake- volunteer company as they saddle up and hit the Spend every afternoon on the water: tubing, wakeboarding, boarding skills. Steele trail and fight a battle reenactment!! Blobbing, sailboarding, kayaking, SUPs, and 25 sailboats. Island is a for 14+ ATV Training & Trail Rides Join our certified instructors for the official ATV Safety Institute Rider Certification course. You’ll do skills practice and safety training and a older youth and adults. 4 hour wilderness trail ride. Covert Ops “Volunteer” to recover top-secret weapons from OA HIGH ADVENTURE TRAIL CREW an aircraft crash site. Your mission will intro- duce night vision scopes, GPS, radios, and satel- High adventure for Arrow- lite uplinks to accomplish your covert mission. man 14-21 y.o. Spend a week on a Chisholm Trail pontoon Comanche Village boat, build trail projects, and Stay in our 22 tipis. Experience the food, dance, do exciting watersports and sports, history, legends, and weapons of the outposts. Comanche. Sign Up Online Today! .