This book describes the events surrounding the establishment and build-up of an innovative approach to a Jewish summer sleepaway camp experience. The events described in the book took place during the five summers of 1999-2003. Kibbutz Yarok served as an adjunct to its sponsor Camp Newman, located in the Santa Rosa mountains of northern California. Newman is one of fourteen summer sleepaway camps supported and supervised by the Union for Reform Judaism. The kibbutz was an experiment in Jewishly inflected outdoor living. It was designed to be a cooperative, eco-friendly enterprise inhabited, built, and managed by teenaged Newman campers who chose to volunteer for the assignment. The author of the book lent his financial support to the venture via annual grants and made periodic on-site visits for the purpose of monitoring progress.

Recipes, activities, equipment, and even campfire song lyrics are all part of this compact handbook for any parent who is considering camping with their kids. After all, parents need all the help they can get This handbook delivers information without frills and even the most experienced camper can use the hints for keeping the shorter crowd entertained and interested. For novice campers, the information can make the entire experienced much easier and more fun.

The Scouting Journey is a map for Scouters guiding Scouts on a voyage of challenge, adventure, and achievement.

Scouting's continued relevance hinges on the attitude of each individual Scouter. We are good, practical people concerned about the next meeting or camping trip. We have plenty of forms to fill in, records to maintain, and plans to develop.

All those practicalities are meaningless if we don't strive to grasp less practical, less tangible elements of Scouting.

I have shared a thousand campfires, camped many nights, hiked, and canoed many miles in the company of Scouts and Scouters. As we covered literal trails through the wilderness, my Scouts were travelling the figurative trail toward adulthood.

I have seen Scouting's tremendous transformative potential at work. Scouting needs folks who are willing to get going and keep going more than it needs experts or heroes.

I know the trail, here's your map - lets's get going

It's up to you to take the first step

Easy Breezy Family Camping Cookbook is designed to give the novice camp cook the tools needed to have a great camping trip with great meals without devoting all of their attention to preparing meals while camping out. For the more experienced camper, it offers an expanded menu, as well as camping hacks that they may find useful. Unlike many camping cookbooks, this cookbook is designed specifically for the car camping tent user with the entire family. Many recipes are adjustable to suit different size families, and most recipes easily will feed four or more. Skip the beans and wieners, the hamburgers and chips, and enjoy real food designed for easy preparation while camping. Everything is covered from a quick meal when you arrive at your campsite to desserts after a hard day of hiking, with everything from snacks to your main dish included.

Preparing quick meals on camping trips is easy if you have the right recipes and ingredients. Just wait until you get any of the 100 recipes in this cookbook cooking over an open flame. Camp cooking has never been easier or tastier. Hot dogs and canned foods are by no means the extent of foods you can prepare easily while camping. If you can cook it at home, you can cook it over a campfire if you bring the needed ingredients and cooking equipment. Get a head start on any of these recipes by combining the seasonings at home in advance. Store each set in a separate plastic bag, label it and add a copy of the recipe. Cooking out will be a breeze when you are organized and that will leave extra time for fun in the sun. There are many ways to cook while camping, from grilling to tin foil packets to Dutch ovens. Just pop your meat and veggie in tin foil, cook it over the campfire and you have a quick and delicious meal. You will find many recipes you'll love inside this camp cooking guide. From chicken, beef, pork, fish and turkey to side dishes and ending up with desserts, this collection of camping recipes features a wide variety of meals so you can cook out any time of the year.

Dog Team to Dawson is a nostalgic collection of true Yukon stories written by bestselling author Bruce Batchelor. A Quest for the Cosmic Bannock is the account of two young people travelling by dog team, tackling a long-abandoned Gold Rush era route while wrestling with thoughts about their own destinies. Cost-Plus illustrates how greed and modern equipment cannot trump Nature - unless one is very lucky. In Trapping the Mad Trapper, Batchelor mines a 1932 account by Old Crow nurse Helen Thornthwaite to reveal how Yukoners played the major roles in stopping Albert Johnson's escape attempt. Love Story for Lucy is a tender tribute to the bond between man and dog.

Dog Team to Dawson is the prequel to Bruce Batchelor's "Nine Dog Winter," providing readers of that classic account with earlier adventures into the heart and soul of the Yukon Territory.

Bruce Batchelor lived in Canada's Yukon during the 1970s and early 1980s, travelling extensively throughout the territory, fascinated by the wilderness and the people who chose to live in the bush. His Northern stories have appeared in magazines and newspapers, and in the books "Yukon Channel Charts, The Lost Whole Moose Catalogue" and "Nine Dog Winter." He is also author of "Book Marketing DeMystified."

Bruce Batchelor is an editor and publisher, living in Victoria, BC, with his wife Marsha, their son Dan and a gentle black dog named Browser.

Reviewer comments on Bruce Batchelor's books
"A real page turner and delightful read. An instant classic about Canada's North."
"I LOVED reading it. Bruce has a rare gift among writers: he writes like he speaks. His 'voice' comes through as if you are sharing a hot cocoa by the fireside."
"The book is bursting with love. People with each other. People with dogs. Dogs with people. Everybody with the outdoors."
"A fascinating story and a great read. We recommend it highly."