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Hello everybody and before we introduce our special guest today, let me dive into the mail bag here.

Instead of just randomly grabbing some questions here, I've decided to look over some of the more common questions that have come in over the past six months.

So here we go, here's one and I'm going to like to take the most recent one that's relevant to this topic which coincidentally came two weeks ago.

Pop Bear.

I was recently on a backpacking trip but my son's boy scout troop and scoutmaster very insistently and almost in a militant way said no backpacks in the tents.

Absolutely under no conditions.

I didn't question it because I didn't want to undermine his authority with the kids but it just sounded a bit peculiar to me since my whole life.

I brought my backpack and my tent with me.

Am I wrong for doing this? Could you explain this to me?

Because I really don't want to do something that's wrong or more importantly put myself in danger.

Well, Bobby the truth is that there is no right or wrong answer to this question but I will explain having been a volunteer with the boy scouts for over 20 years.

The logic behind this is that you're dealing with youth and with a boy scout troop that youth can range from age 11 or 12 up to 17.

And you can't depend on kids to self-police and they're a large group and I have witnessed what I'm about to say a number of times.

Kid spills food, jelly, his notorious for spilling on packs wraps.

Kids bring some snacks from home.

Alright, I've got this bag. I can bring extra snicker bars or whatever they want to bring. Slim gyms and put them in there.

They get into a heated conversation about whether or not if I dig a hole, keep digging a hole from here I'll end up in China.

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