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Outdoor Service Guides

@osg.bsky.social
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Outdoor Service Guides is an inclusive, all-gender, outdoors & service-focused back-to-basics scouting organization for youth and adults. #WFIS For more information, please visit outdoorserviceguides.org

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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Myth-buster time! Think you need to be a rugged wilderness survival expert to lead an Outdoor Service Guides group? 🏕️❌ Let’s clear the air: you don’t need to know how to construct a log cabin with your bare hands or navigate the deep woods by the stars to be a volunteer leader. 1/4
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scouting is an outdoor movement—that is the core of its character. 🌲 To whatever degree daily life or city schedules force us indoors, we treat it as a temporary necessity, never a substitute for the real thing. We believe that nature is central to human confidence and well-being. 1/3
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
You start a group in your area with a few friends. As your group grows, other parents pitch in too. They don't have to have outdoor experience - that's just one part of OSG's program. Parents help lead a craft, a game, or coordinate a trip to a fire station. 1/2
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Other scouting organizations teach the basics of fire building and use matches or lighters to start their fires. Outdoor Service Guides learn traditional scouting skills, like starting a fire with a ferro rod or flint and steel. 1/3
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Sometimes having fun in the woods doesn't mean learning skills. Sometimes it means stabbing a dead pieces of wood with a stick. Our youngest guides are issued a titanium spoon so that when the skills aren't as interesting when you're in preschool, you can go dig in the dirt. 1/2
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Our youth guides aren't the only ones who have fun outdoors. 🌲 Our Rover section is a fully active program for adults (ages 18+) who want to scout for themselves. We believe #everybodyscouts, including adults.
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
When folks don't find an established OSG group in their area, some consider the idea of starting a new group intimidating. But you don't have to start a new group on your own, and you don't have to be a wilderness bushcraft expert. 1/5
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Outdoor Service Guides of all ages learn how to safely cook good food in the campsite like the greatest breakfast dish of all, biscuits and gravy. Happy National Biscuit Day! #everybodyscouts #nationalbiscuitday
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"A Scout/Guide should save animals as far as possible from pain, and should not kill any animal unnecessarily, not even the smallest of God's creatures." - Robert Baden-Powell #EarthDay #AScoutIsKind #everybodyscouts
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Sharks and tuna are overheating and running out of options
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Sharks and tuna are overheating and running out of options
Some of the ocean’s fastest and most fearsome predators—like great white sharks and tuna—are running hotter than expected, and it’s costing them dearly. New research shows these warm-bodied fish burn…
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On International Women's Day (and every day) we celebrate the women and girls worldwide. As we celebrate, we are mindful of the inequalities and injustices that remain and the persistence of women and their allies in fighting them. #internationalwomensday #everybodyscouts
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Rover Kelsey Truex of the 77th Eagles in Cuyahoga Falls, OH receives her tenderfoot badge at a group meeting. Outdoor Service Guides offers scouting for all - youth and adults. Rank advancement and 40 profiency badges available for adult scouts. #everybodyscouts #evenadults
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Outdoor Service Guides
An organization to teach both kids and adults outdoor skills, leadership, and the value of giving back to their community.
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Rover Doug Taylor of the 100th Sun Mountain in Wheat Ridge, CO transports sleds from storage in preparation for the group's Snowpack Stampede. Outdoor Service Guides is 100% volunteer operated. #everybodyscouts #badcrop #wintercamping
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Read our full response here: outdoorserviceguides.org/news/our-com... #everybodyscouts #diversity #Equity #inclusion
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
On Thinking Day or Founder's Day, scouts celebrate the birthday of our founders Robert Baded Powell, his sister Agnes, and Robert's wife Olive. Thinking Day is a day to reflect on our kinship with other scouts and guides and how we can be of service to others. #everybodyscouts
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Nobody Interesting @reprehensibleworm.com · 20/01/2025
Look at World Federation of Independent Scouts or Pathfinders. WFIS is Baden-Powell pilled like normal Scouts, Pathfinders is just outdoorsy stuff with a Scouts-flavouring.
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Leaning intently over the firepit, Sergio Padilla of the 7th Trailblazers lights a jelly ball with ferro rod & steel. Adult rovers new to the program completed Brownsea Training Camp (BTC), standard new leader training, at Fandango at Camp Happy Hollow this past weekend. #everybodyscouts #bushcraft
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Straining to keep their patrol member from falling, guides complete one of many activities during their Bronze Arrow Training (BAT) at Fandango at Camp Happy Hallow near Brenham, TX. Scouts from across the country came together to learn best practices for patrols #everybodyscouts #patrolmethod
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Stringing lights on their archway, Rovers near completion of their pioneering project for campfire. Pathfinders and Rovers gathered for Fandango, a national scouting event, at Camp Happy Hallow near Brenhan, TX for a weekend of scouting and learning new skills. #everybodyscouts #pioneering
Three adult scouts attach outdoor string lights to two poles lashed together at a right angle.
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Celebrating our independence and thoughtful of how we can continue to "form a more perfect union." #IndependenceDay #scoutingforeverybody
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Today, we honor the progress made in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights — and commit to the work still ahead. (1/2) #PrideDay #LoveIsLove #ScoutingForEverybody #diversity #equity #inclusion
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today, we honor Juneteenth—a day of liberation, remembrance, and resilience marking when freedom reached the last enslaved Black Americans. While we celebrate, we also recognize the incomplete, ongoing fight for equity and justice. 1/2 #Juneteenth #diversity #equity #inclusion #scoutingforeverybody
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
#lunarnewyear #everybodyscouts
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#martinlutherking #everybodyscouts
Picture of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC with the quote "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Today is #NativeAmericanHeritageDay. In 2009, President Barack Obama signed a bill designating the Friday after Thanksgiving as “Native American Heritage Day.” But the bill was only formally supported by 184 out of 567 federally recognized tribes. 1/9
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Outdoor Service Guides @osg.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving. OSG acknowledges that this can be both a day of friends and family and a day with troubled origins. Read the links in the comments to learn more.
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