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[quote=Anonymous]OP, where do you live?

There's an organization for girls and boys called "Baden Powell Scouts" (technically Baden Powell Service Association or BPSA because the term "Scouts" is under license or agreement to BSA supposedly).   They are organized a lot like the original Boy Scouts started by Robert Baden Powell way back when, and are open to girls and boys.  Very outdoors, active, skills based program.    But around the DC area there aren't a ton of groups active yet.   It's a great group and a great concept, but anyone interested in joining would need to probably be interested in helping out to get a group started as well.

http://bpsa-us.org

I am a Girl Scout troop leader and my coleader and I started our troop with a lot of active, outdoor oriented, skills based ideas in mind.   It's been great, but it didn't just happen.   The program nowadays isn't built that way so you have to be intentional about making it happen.  As a PP said -- someone has to be willing to go out and get the training, do the legwork etc. (That has to happen in Boy Scouts too, of course, but it seems more people are willing to do it for boys or for the Scout program or something.)

If you are interested in trying to get a girl scout troop up and running the way you like it, I'd suggest looking around your son's cub scout troop for parents of both boys and girls.   They would be likely to be willing to lend a hand.

Our local Girl Scout Council has a list of "high adventure" activities that require special planning or insurance. Once way we keep our troop active is that we have a goal -- to do EVERYTHING listed, at least once, with the girls.   We probably won't make them all (some are very expensive) but we try to be the opposite of the leaders who say "Oh no, that's too risky/too much effort".   If all it requires is a special permission slip and some extra insurance, we're on it![/quote]

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