Triple Crown Award Research Paper

Triple Crown Award In the summer of 2014 I received my Eagle award through Boy Scouts, the highest rank one can achieve through the organization. It was extremely hard and long, I had been working on pursuing this goal since 6th grade. Throughout all the awards and badges I received, the most important and memorable to me was receiving the Triple Crown Award. This award is achieved by visiting three of the four high adventure programs, spotted throughout the United States. These programs include the Northern Tier high adventure in the boundary water (MN), Philmont Scout Ranch (NM), Florida Sea Base (FL), and Paul R. Christen National High Adventure Base (WV). I participated in Philmont in 2012, the Boundary Waters in 2010, and Florida Sea base in 2013. These high adventure bases show your outdoorsman skills in different terrain and different climates throughout the country. They were each hard, adventurous and treacherous tasks to complete but, they showed me how survive in different environments with little help besides my crew. I will remember each of them for the rest of my life because they taught me so much about different parts
This trip wasn’t like the others, it was a vacation compared to the other high adventure camps. We flew down to Miami and drove to the base, which was in the Florida Keys. The next day we took two warrior canoes, which were canoes the fit about seven people in each, and paddled five miles out to and island where we would stay for the next six days. Instead of hiking or climbing mountains, our trip consisted of tenting out on an island where we fished, snorkeled and kayaked for the next week. My favorite part about this trip was relaxing in a hammock for hours watching the tides change. This was a dramatic change from my two previous summers of hard labor and exhausting hiking and canoeing; but it taught me that hard work pays