On rappel (abseiling)

Welcome to Adventure!

Colorado Rocky Mountain Scouting
Troop 97 BSA

Autumn backpack, 8000 ft (2400 m)

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

Take a look around.
Please share your comments, suggestions, or needs with us.
We're happy to hear from you!

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What would you like to know?

• About Troop 97
• About High Adventure
• Advancement toward Eagle

• BSA Summer Camps in Colorado
• History of the Boy Scouts of America
• About Boy Scouts of America (BSA)
• About Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA)
• BSA Eagle Requirements since 1911

• BSA Handbooks
• All Handbook Covers

• World Scouting
• Scouting in Every Country
• Dragon Scout? Quetzal Scout?
  —Highest Rank in Various Countries
• Some Scout Laws & Promises

• Lots more in our detailed site index

On Deck in the British Virgin Islands

Canoeing under the Midnight Sun:
Yukon River, Canada, near the Arctic Circle

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 over 12 times the BSA average.

• Ever watched the sun set at midnight? From your canoe? Our Scouts have.
• Backpacked the only one-way trail in North America?
• Tried to sleep after seeing a bear prowling for food 15 feet (5 m) from your tent?
• Been to the only place in the US where cars drive on the left?
• Backpacked from one country into another? How about by canoe? Ferry? Train? Bicycle?
• Slept on board a tugboat? In a railroad sleeper car? Sailing ship? In an old miner's cabin?
• Snorkeled a shipwreck? Ridden a train going 180 mph (300 km/h)?
• Pedaled a bike 425 miles (680 km)? Paddled a canoe 250 miles (400 km)? Backpacked 100 miles (160 km)?
• Swum 1 mile (1600 m)—in a high-altitude lake?
• Had a foot (30 cm) of new snow half-bury your tent? In August?

• Troop 97 is one of 23 troops in
• Cache La Poudre District, one of 9 districts in
• Longs Peak Council, one of over 300 local councils of
• Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of about 200 National Scout Organization members of
• 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 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, pramuka, proskopou,...

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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. The T97 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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