Back to Gilwell! Two

Back to Gilwell! Gilwell Park in Epping Forest, England, that is, the spiritial home of the Boy Scouting movement. OS Survey Grid Reference TQ 383696. Lat-Long: 51° 38' 59" , 0° 0' 9" || 51.65 , 0.0026

The travel bug consists of an enamel pin with a portrait of Lord Baden Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts, attached to the travel bug "dog tag." This travel bug was created by a member of the Bear Patrol of Wood Badge training course WE3-41-03, which was put on by the Redwood Empire and Marin Councils of the Boy Scouts of America on two weekends, one at Camp Masonite-Navarro in Mendicino County, California and one at Camp Tamarancho in Marin County, California, between Sept. 5 and Sept. 21, 2003. Wood Badge training is advanced adult leadership training and its spiritial home is Gilwell Park in England, where Lord Baden Powell first started training adult leaders in the ways of Boy Scouting. Today, regardless of where the Wood Badge training occurs (and it's taught all over the globe!), it's called "Gilwell Field" and the participants sign a song called "Back to Gilwell." Hence, this Baden Powell travel bug is, with your assistance, going "Back to Gilwell!"

Alas, the first Back to Gilwell! Travel Bug "went missing" after being placed in a geocache in Seattle, WA. Because all of the participants and staff of WE3-41-03, as well as other interested Scouts and Scouters were following its progress and were dissapointed at its loss, we decided to again give this a try and Back to Gilwell! Two was created and launched on its way.