Powder Horn – 2021

Powder Horn is a training opportunity designed to expose Venturing and Scouts BSA Leaders leading older youth (14+) to activities and resources necessary to operate a successful High Adventure program. The aim is to give hands-on experience with a variety of high adventure activities so that you understand the planning, the type of equipment, the safety considerations and most important- contacts to qualified professionals and experts.

Powder Horn is a skills resource course held over 4-6 days. Each Powder Horn course is slightly different, but you can expect to see activities ranging from aquatics to mountain biking, rock climbing to shooting sports, well, you get the picture. It’s one of the few advanced training courses that you can take several times.

Powder Horn will be held August 8-13, 2021 at Wente Scout Reservation, Willits, CA.
Each session is typically 90-120 minutes in length.

Requirements

1. Be a registered BSA adult or if a youth participant, must be registered in a Venturing or a Scouts BSA unit. Note:  youth registered with only Scouts BSA units are not allowed to participate in hand guns or shooting rifles over .22 caliber per BSA regulations. To shoot hand guns and high powered rifles, youth must be registered with a venturing crew.
2. Adults must be trained for their registered position.  Youth participants must have completed ILST, ILSC, NYLT or equivalent training. All participants 18 and over must have a background consent form, be current with YPT at the time of the course and registered as a Venturing participant.
3. Submit completed and current BSA medical forms A, B & C. Since this is a High Adventure course, you must meet the height/weight restrictions on C.
4. Adults must take appropriate on-line training for activities including Hazardous Weather, Climb On Safely, Safety Afloat and Safe Swim Defense, valid at the time of the course and provide proof prior to the course.

Tentative activities include . . . 

*Some proposed activities are subject to having qualified instructors.

Space is limited to 36 Adults and 12 Youth (14+ years old as of the start date of the event)