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Troop 97 Standard & Eagle Neckerchiefs

Colorado Rocky Mountain Scouting

Scouting is an Adventure.

Building a Quinzhee Snow Shelter in Wyoming at 9000 ft (2700 m)Baking in a Mailbox Oven (bottom one for fire, top one is oven)

Our site is packed with useful ideas designed to help and inform:

  • the Scouts, leaders, and families of our troop
  • potential or future members of our troop
  • the Scouts and leaders of other BSA units
  • Scouts and leaders from around the world
  • anyone else interested in Scouting or Troop 97

Troop 97, in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, is more than double the size of the average BSA troop, and our Scouts earn Eagle Scout (the BSA's highest award) at almost 8 times the BSA average.

  • Troop 97 is one of about 43 troops in the
  • Thompson-Poudre District, one of six districts in the
  • Longs Peak Council, one of over 300 local Councils of the
  • Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of about 200 National Scout Organizations which are members of the
  • World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
    [for more information about the surprising variety of Scouting organizations around the world, see our World Scouting page].

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We want to hear from you!

And we enjoy hearing from Scouts and leaders from around the world, whether you are a scout, speider, spejder, éclaireur, pfadfinder, skaut, verkenner, escoteiro, explorador, skáta, cserkész, esploratori, scaut, proskopou,...

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ATTENTION WEBELOS & PARENTS

Troop 97's adult leaders and senior Scouts are offering the Webelos Outdoorsman activity badge this Saturday (May 10).
Click here for details!


   

Last Revised: 8 May 2008
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Online since February 1996

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Approvals & Recognitions

Our website is Cybersitter approved as a "Family Friendly" website, and is ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association) rated as being free of foul language, nudity or sex, violence, and gambling, drugs, and alcohol.

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NOTE—Our Information Page provides details about the structure and policies of our website, gives more details about our approvals and recognitions, and contains links to the BSA's legal issues website and to the Scouting Legal Defense Fund webpage showing which United Ways have stopped supporting Scouting. It also lists what we believe are the characteristics of a good website.
 

   

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