Mountain Man Rendezvous

Greetings all Varsity Coaches, teams, Venture Leaders and crews! We are excited to have your team/crew come and be a part of our Varsity/Venture Mountain Man Rendezvous. This is a chance to have a wonderful time and get our boys excited about scouting all over again. It is difficult to compete with the other entertainment of this day and age, but this is a special time when young men can return to the basics of life and live like a mountain man with all the adventure and personal satisfaction of learning new skills or refining those acquired.

It is fun to imagine following the creed of one mountain man which is as follows …

“My mother was a badger, my father was a griz … I can out shoot, out fight, and out ride any man. I have the fastest horse, the sharpest knife, and the finest rifle in the mountains. Hear my challenge echo in the valleys for any man of any nation to try to take my topknot. I will fight to the death for my right to be a free man, to trap the beaver and hunt the elk, to drink from cool streams, to sleep under the stars. I have no road to follow, I make my own.. I have no man to answer to accept myself. I fear no creature on God’s green earth, for I am a mountain man!!”

This is truly part of that adventuresome spirit and the fun that awaits your team/crew.

We look forward to having you with us for all the events and fun, not to mention the spiritual brotherhood that exists in an outdoor setting where eternal principles are also discussed and emphasized.

Hope to see you there my scouting brothers.

William Hofheins Rendezvous Commissioner