My Adventure with the Adventurers!

If you’ve followed me for a couple of years, you’ll know about my journey with getting a Trailblazer troop/program underway. To give you a brief recount of this story, in the summer of 2019, GSUSA relaunched the Trailblazer and Mariner programs to much fanfare among those of us who were hoping our national organization would invest more in the outdoors. A guidebook and a Trailblazer membership pin were released at the time, but since then, there’s been no further acknowledgement from GSUSA about the program. With all of the turnover and turmoil that’s happened at GSUSA since 2019, I have to wonder if the folks up in NYC even realize that it’s still out there? But really, it doesn’t matter, because volunteers took the idea and ran with it – and I’m one of those folks. Continue reading