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In article <Bxt0Dw.DLH@cs.vu.nl>, wlieftin@cs.vu.nl (Liefting W) writes:
> rascherm@mcs213a.cs.umr.edu (Robert L Aschermann) writes:
> 
>>I am heavily involved with Project C.O.P.E. at Camp Geiger, St. Joseph, MO.  
>>I am extremely interested in talking to others involved in C.O.P.E.  
>>Camp Geiger was the home of the first BSA C.O.P.E. course 10 years ago.
>>I would like to find out what has happened to the program since then, and how
>>it has changed.
> 
> One question: Next time you post such an article, will you
> 1. Be more clear, or
> 2. Limit you article to the american net.
> 
> There's hundreds of readers outside america who will not understand a bit of
> this, including myself.

Wouter:
COPE is something that is unique to American Boy Scouting programs.
Sorry if you don't understand it, but the person posting it had no
idea that COPE was only used in the US Scouting Program. 

PROJECT COPE:  Challenging Outdoor Physical Encounters (I am sure)...a
set of obsticles designed to enhance patrol unity and leadership
abilities of the patrol, the basis for Scouting.  It is conducted
using ropes and other natural (as much as possible) "events" strewn
out in a large area, typically at Boy Scout Summer Camps and the
regional Outdoor Adventure Bases. In order to have a course at your
Summer Camp, it must be built to an exacting National standard and
there must be at least two COPE Instructors, certified by the Boy
Scouts of America through it's National Camping School.  There should
be a professional executive also certified to conduct the course, also
by attending the COPE Course Instructor course at NCS. 

COPE Courses are a lot of fun for the kids involved..a pain in the
butt end for the Councils and the professional staffs.  They are very
dangerous courses and extreme stupidity resulting in several major
injuries in several courses have made the BSA to rethink the COPE
course' worth in the past five years.  Yet, the number of Councils
that have a course keeps going up because of the "Smith and Jones"
factor (council Smith has one, so we in Council Jones must have one
and a high ropes course at that...).  

COPE Directors that are certified are in *high demand* because the
course carries with it more stress than the other major jobs at camp. 
As a result, lots of directors and staff members "get lost" soon after
the summer season is over. 

That's all I know....

Settummanque!


> 
> Wouter Liefting
> wlieftin@cs.vu.nl