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1. Camp John Mensinger Promotional Video

1 year ago

This video was produced by Mark Walker for the Greater Yosemite Council, Boy Scouts of America. It is used to inform families about the council operated summer camp program.

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Patrick O'Hara 10 months ago

Great Video - BSA Troop 28 from Galt, CA had a GREAT time at Camp Mensinger. So much to do, so little time to DO IT!
Respectfully,
Patrick O'Hara
Scoutmaster Troop 28
David Lagesse 9 months ago

Did I see a Liquid Fuel Lantern in a TENT at 3:00 minutes?
No Flames in Tents!
mvair 9 months ago

No. You did not see a liquid fuel lantern in a tent. You saw a child's Coleman Model 5310 Series flashlight/lantern that runs on 4 D size batteries. It's only 8 inches tall! If you listen at 3:03 you can hear the switch turning it off.

How did you like the video otherwise?
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mvair 9 months ago

The lantern is in the Model 5310 Series. I believe that means it uses 4 D cell batteries. As you have pointed out, there are other lanterns in the series. This particular one is well illustrated in this demonstration video video.yahoo.com/watch/1300860/5751139
The charm of the lantern is that it has many of the visual features of "dad's" lantern with all the safety features that makes it appropriate for a child.
David Lagesse 6 months ago

First the great news! Our excellent Camp Cook and Sam will be back in the kitchen this summer. This will be her 3rd season!

Now for the bad news. Did you catch the patch job on the Camp's Bear Mascot? It is on the video at 1:42, I spent many hours patching up the woodpecker holes, when I was there as Camp Ranger in 2007.
I used a putty made of 'Elmer's' wood glue and sawdust.
It took three applications to build it up to the surface level. No-one has even bothered to paint over the patching to preserve it. I did not because I wanted the glue to thoroughly dry first, and there was no matching paint available.
The bear has had these holes in it for many years, and had been very unsuccessfuly 'patched' by attempting to use great big globs of latex caulk.

Last fall the bear was covered in clear plastic to ‘protect’ it from the elements and wild life, during the winter and the off-season.
It should be well known by the Professional Staff by now that clear plastic does not hold up. The sun rots the plastic, until it flakes off.
Every Fall for years, we have been covering the tent platforms with either black or clear plastic. The black plastic survives very well; the clear has always deteriorated to dust or flakes. Buying clear plastic to use for winter protection of Camp Property is a waste of time, effort and money.

So now our very valuable and unique Camp Mascot is once again full of woodpecker holes, and the Mama woodpecker is busy raising her brood deep inside one of the holes.

I was told at the 2009 Spring Ordeal, that all there was left last Fall was clear plastic, then I walked around to the far end of the commissary and found two BIG sheets of black plastic that had wintered over right where they were.
In 2007 there was a humongous sheet of very heavy black plastic (at least 20 x 50 or more, perhaps even 80 foot long) that I was ordered to take to the dump.

If no-one ever buys clear plastic, and just buys black plastic instead, and does not arbitrarily dispose of it, we won’t have this problem any more.

If you don’t PURCHASE clear plastic, you won’t HAVE clear plastic, then you can’t USE clear plastic.

Definition of Insanity -- doing the same mistake repeatedly and expecting different results -- Albert Einstein