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Your goal: Learn to jump the wakes and land it!
Even Scoutmasters can do Steele Island!
Participants can earn Waterskiing Merit Badge if they choose to.
We keep 6 wakeboard and ski boats on the water.
Our latest wakeboard boat: a 2006 Supra v-drive.
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Spend
a week learning to wakeboard! The Steele Island Wakeboarding Program
is a week–long boarding and water skiing program for older Scouts,
Venturers, and adults on beautiful Lake Bridgeport at Sid Richardson
Scout Ranch (SR2). The program will focus on developing your wakeboarding
skills, and teaching Water Skiing Merit Badge for those who need it.
We’ll have expert staff to help you learn this fast growing sport
on some of the best wind-protected skiing and boarding water in the
state. With a much larger surface area to ride on, wakeboards are
easier than water skis for beginners to learn. Experienced riders
can do exciting jumps and tricks!! Space is limited to 24 participants.
You’ll report to our marina every morning at first light and
wakeboard and ski until lunch. Afternoons are free for merit badges
in the main camp area, or swimming or blobbing ... or sleep. You’ll
report back again in the evening right after supper and board until
dark. Expect to crash and burn a lot, and to improve your skills significantly
by the end of the week! You can earn Water Skiing merit badge along
the way if you want to. You will also take part in our Ultimate Tubing
Wars Competition.
We’ll provide all boats, boards, skis, tubes, lifejackets, and
all program equipment. Participants with personal equipment must have
their gear inspected by the staff before use.
Wakeboarding instruction is available only to participants in the
Steele Island and Chisholm Trail programs. Water Skiing Merit Badge
is available only to participants in the Steele Island program.
Participants
All participants must be at least 13 years old or graduates of 7th
grade and must pass the BSA Swimmer’s Test at camp or in an approved
Pre-Camp Swim Test (see our website for details). Participants who
are unable to pass the BSA Swimmer’s Test will be enrolled in
the traditional program and will not receive a refund. Participants
in the Steele Island program must be part of a unit camping at a Longhorn
Council camp.
Participants from SR2 will camp with their units in our base camp.
Camping arrangements will be made at SR2 for Steele Island participants
from units at Worth Ranch or Camp Tahuaya, but units must make their
own transportation arrangements to and from SR2.
Wakeboard
School
Wakeboard School is a separate week-long intensive training program
designed to develop intermediate to advanced wakeboarding skills.
Participants wakeboard all day long and stay in our modern cabins
at Lakeview Lodge on Lake Bridgeport. See the section on Wakeboard
School.
Limited
Space Available
The Steele Island Wakeboarding program is limited to 24 participants
per week. Enrollment is first come-first served and based on full
fee payment. Adults are welcome on a space available basis. All participants
pay the same fee.
Reservations
Units registering Scouts or Venturers for the Steele Island program
must send the reservation form along with a deposit of $50 per person.
Deposits are credited to your account as part of your total camp fees
and are not an additional charge. Reservations are processed on a
first come–first served basis.
Camps
and High Adventure booklet (1.4 MB)
Steele
Island Wakeboard section (251 KB)
Camp
Staff Application
Click
here to request our Texas
High Adventure Video by U.S. Mail: camping@longhorn.org
If
you have high speed internet, you can download the video. It's
a BIG 106
Megabyte
file.
Download
Texas High Adventure and Summer Camp Video-106 MB
(The CD has detailed info in addition to the video.)
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Island Program Schedule
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6:00
a.m. - noon
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Wakeboarding
and water skiing instruction
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Afternoon
Program
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Open
time for camp merit badges, Water Park, swimming, boating,
or just sleeping ...
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Evening
Program - until dark
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Wakeboarding
instruction
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