Garrett & Brian,

Hmmm. The National website is down, as you wrote, and the Blue Ridge guys no longer offer the program, which makes me suspect the program is withering away.

I found my file (brute force search for "hug*.*") - although I swear, I had the handouts at one time, so perhaps I still do. Anyway, the one file I found was an MHT file of an archived article from Scouts Canada in the November 1997 issue of "The Leader" magazine. The Scouts Canada website is massively upgraded now (1997 archives not visible at the moment) and the article links no longer work... and in any event, they were pretty much aimed at the RCMP Hug-a-Tree site, which you will hit up high on a Google search. Only DL there is the bi-lingual coloring book. I remember more than that and if you folks strike out, I'll try rooting around a bit more on my drives...

I swear, this sort of thing is almost enough to make me google my hard drives - I even have all my ancient C= 64 files on one of these drives, if you can believe that... (yeah, I *know* where those are...)

Anyway, skinny article, plain text, and the current RCMP site pretty much covers what was in that article. Did you sift thru FEMA and ARC sites? IIRC, they have some good related/similar material as well as a lot of good suggestions.

You can Google as well as I can, so I'll confine any further searching to my local drives. Let me know if you want me to keep searching - I am pretty sure there was more than just the one coloring book.

Tom

Edit: I've got 4 related files - you can get the coloring book from the RCMP site (I don't see it on my drives) - I don't have exactly what you were looking for, but it's OK stuff. In the neighborhood of 700kB altogether; all are MHT browser archive files. Range from 6 - 391kB each. Email me if you want me to send them to you.

Never too soon to start. I started woods-proofing my kids before they could talk in complete sentences. We simply kept doing what we did BK, but with the kids - and made fun out of learning things. Heck, our oldest actually REMEMBERS my first tent; we didn't own/use tents until the 2nd or 3rd kid came along... Younger = shorter lessons, disguised as play until they think they're too old to "play" (early teens). Then you call it some sort of tough-guy-adventure stuff name - but it's still fun. We moved a lot slower those early days (heck, now I think *I* move slower), but it was great fun for us parents, as well. Great memories... I'm almost ready for Grandkids to recycle through those times. We left puzzling evidence for future archeologists all over North America...