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Bill Wadsworth – Bowhunting Educator — 2 Comments

  1. WOW— nice tribute — I was in Boy Scouts in the 50’s -60’s and remember all those things including tin can cooking. I was a camper at Aksentonta in 1954. Went to a couple Winter Camps. Worked at Woodland and Sabbath’s in 1962-1963.

  2. During his years as an executive with the Boy Scouts, in Onondaga County, N.Y., Bill Wadsworth designed and developed a pack frame, which was sold for a very affordable price to scouts, which they would take home and assemble themselves. This was years before the fancy expensive welded aluminum pack frames, such as the famous “Kelty” packs. Bill, also, developed a “tab tent”, which was a simple canvas sheet outfitted with tie-tapes, very affordable and widely used for tents or cooking fly’s. Scouts would be creative by building a frame using ordinary poles. Then, Bill designed a sleeping bag of generous proportions, which were sold to scouts for a very affordable price. Bill established and conducted a “Winter Camp” for scouts at Camp Woodland. He created Explorer Scout camp Askenonta, on Moose Island in Lake Placid. At Askenonta, Bill, with his wife Barbara, established a coed camp for 2 weeks each summer, to include Girl Scouts in the outdoor experiences the boys benefited from. Everything at Askenonta was conducted on a high standard…canoeing, camping, crew cooking, mountain hiking, taking responsibility seriously, while having fun. Bill, then established the huge Adirondack Scout reservation at Sasbattis…several thousand acres, and still used today, by scouts from several counties in upstate new York. Sabattis was, and is, a mini-Askenonta…same format, but more conservative for the younger scouts. The former Askenonta staffers held a reunion after 50 years, so loyal and thankful to Bill and his wife Barbara for that experience. And, Barbara traveled to Lake Placid to join them. In all of these endeavors, Bill’s leadership and skills were the keys to success.

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