The Vision for Camp Hahobas

Lord Baden-Powell described the Boy Scout program as a game and experiment played in the great outdoors. The program taught young men timeless values and exposed them to skills that turned into life-long pursuits. Boy Scout summer camp was a main vehicle to deliver that program to the boys. Much has changed in the world since Baden-Powell started the Scouting movement. Youth today have an almost endless choice of activities. Our society has become focused on quick rewards and the Scouting profession focused on membership and dollars. These changes provide a tricky landscape for us to deliver on those promises in the front of each Boy Scout Handbook. Our steadfast mission must remain to deliver those promises to each and every Scout and to use our Boy Scout summer camp as a major vehicle for that delivery. The strength in our message and our values is something we often cite as a differentiator to other program opportunities youth have today. What we challenge each of you to do is re-establish these principles as the foundation of our summer camp program and return to vision outlined by our founder. To Baden-Powell Boy Scouting was the grand adventure.

The Boy Scout summer camp program is that grand adventure. We offer more than just a get-away for a week or time in the woods. Summer camp is an experience. Yearly Scouts return to camp to measure their growth away from their parents. They explore the great backyard of camp, learn new skills, and meet new friends. For units, it is the finishing touch to a year of program. The great experiences that Scouts have help to vault the unit forward to another great year in Scouting. Now that grand adventure and experience have a destination – Camp Hahobas.

About the Vision

Created in the early months of 2005, the Pacific Harbors Council created a committee of dedicated Scouters to evaluate and make recommendations on our Boy Scout summer camp program at Camp Hahobas. After nearly two years of toil that committee published a Vision for Camp Hahobas. The text and intent of that vision are included within these pages.

The Hahobas Vision was presented to the whole Council Board of Directors and ratified in July 2006 as the Approved Framework for Camp Hahobas. The Framework serves as the site plan and intentions of the Pacific Harbor Council.

The Approved Framework for Camp Hahobas

© 2006. This is a production of the Hahobas Vision Committee. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited under the penalty of law without the written permission of the committee.