Hi! I'm Hank Hufnagel, Scoutmaster of Troop 51 of Clarion, PA.  

    These pages tell of the doings of Troop 51 a few years ago. Nonetheless you will find some interesting stuff here: 

    — Swiss Army Knife song
    — free Scout Law game software
    — curious stories of old times with Troop 51
    — how to build a catapult and a trebuchet
    — how to make Tarp Tents, including my favorite, the pyramiddle
    — information about a novel I recently wrote called Buck’s Loot in which a
        Boy Scout named Mouse Monroe has many interesting adventures
    — my favorite Scouting links

    Have a look! 

Troop and Crew Pictures
    Troop 51 was originally founded in 1911 or 1912. Over the years it has stopped and started a number of times. Most recently, the troop was restarted in February, 1996 under the sponsorship of the Clarion Masons. Here is a collection of summer camp and Philmont Crew pictures from 1996 to 2001. If you are an old hand with the troop will have a good time seeing how many last names you can supply? Go here to see the pictures.  

Out With the Boys – The Many Adventures of Troop 51
    For years I wrote news articles about the various outings of the Troop for the Clarion Area News. When the first of our Scouts made Eagle in 2001, I decided to make a book of these articles and present it to them as a remembrance of our days together.  Click here to read the book online. If you have read the articles in the past, you will find two new bits in the book. The Introduction tells how I came to be Scoutmaster and start writing the articles. Eagle is the last of the articles and tells about an adventurous hike into the future that Alan and I took.
    If you have not read any of the articles before, you might want to start with the ones the that I consider the best. Here they are:
                                    The Ultimate Game
                                    Catapult!
                                    A Sunny Day
                                    The 99-Cent Tent
                                    Philmont Day 3
                                    Mouse On Ice.  

Catapult and Trebuchet Plans
    Of all the articles that I ever wrote, the one about building a Scout catapult generated the most mail. Everyone wanted plans for making their own. Here are the plans.  
    Once we built a trebuchet. As part of the getting ready for that, I constructed a model trebuchet that threw M&M's. See it here.

News Articles
    These are news articles that didn’t make it into the book:
Fire on the Mountain – Clay Williams, ASM goes fire fighting in Idaho, 9/16/00
The Old Jail – We tour the old facility, and I dream of its future, 8/25/00
The Knave in the Night – How to play a great Philmont group game, 8/23/00d
Philmont, The Third Day – In the book, but here with more pictures. 8/2/00
Tarp Tents - Want to build a tent from a tarp? 

Scouting Software
    One of the requirements for tenderfoot is to learn the Scout Law. I am a programmer by profession, and back when he was 12, my son Pete was a game programmer using the Klik & Play game development system. Together, we developed a Scout Law Game to help scouts who have access to Windows based computers to learn the Scout Law. This game is free and can be downloaded from the link above. 

More Stuff
    Hank's Home Page contains more shareware, stories of my own days as a Boy Scout and information on three books that I have written and a way to send me email.

Great Scout Links:
Virtual Campsite - My favorite!
The MacScouter - Pretty good for a Mac guy.
Virtual Patch Collection - and links to many a troop site.
UK Advancement - Want to see how its done in the UK?