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The Great Salt Lake Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America and serves the Utah counties of Salt Lake, Tooele and Summit, as well as much of Davis County.
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Organization
The council is divided into these districts:
Camps
The council operates the following camps:
Camp Steiner
At 10,400 feet (3,200 m), Camp Steiner is the highest Boy Scout camp in the United States and the second highest in the world. It was founded in 1930 in the Uinta Mountains. The camp is listed in the national historic registry. The camp is located about 30 miles (48 km) outside of Kamas, Utah. The camp lies on the shores of Scout Lake with several other lakes nearby, such as Lofty Lake, Kamas Lake, Castle Lake, Picturesque Lake and Pearl Lake. It has views of Bald Mountain, Reids Peak, Hayden Peak and Mount Agassiz. In 2002 it the camp was expected to host 56,000 boys over the course of the summer.
Camp Steiner is considered the flagship camp for the Great Salt Lake Council. The camp's motto is "Designed to serve the many, but dedicated to serve and embrace the one."
History
Founded in 1930, Camp Steiner is known for its many traditions including Mountain Man competitions and the Steiner Yell. The reenactment of the siege of Mafeking, followed by the Honor Trail, a dawn hike and the Polar Bear Plunge are all a part of Steiner's program.
The legend of Hyrum is an old folktale about a miner who was blown to pieces in a horrible mining accident. Legend states that Hyrum still hikes the hills of Steiner as a monster of some sort.
The Lost Gold Mine is a true story of LDS miner Caleb Rhoades who mined what were considered to be the richest gold mines in the country. The story of the Rhoades Mines includes an ambush by Butch Cassidy and his "Hole in the Wall Gang." The locations of the mines died with Rhoades, but in his journal he describes a heart-shaped lake surrounded by castles; possibly referring to Scout Lake (formerly known as Heart Lake) and the cliff faces and mountain peaks that can be seen from the lake shores.
Facilities
The main buildings of the camp are the kitchen, the museum, the trading post, the wilderness cabin, the first aid cabin/director's office, the tool shed and the handicraft lodge. The camp has neither electricity nor cell phone coverage. The camp gets its water from a pump system that is gravity powered.
The climbing wall at Camp Steiner is a natural rock face located just above the campfire bowl, which is sometimes referred to as the amphitheater.
Program
The waterfront of Camp Steiner had a tower (which was rebuilt in 2004, yet collapsed in 2009 because of heavy snowfall), a canoe beach and floating docks. Canoeing, rowing, swimming and life-saving merit badges are available. Small-boat sailing was abandoned in 2003 because the winds were never good enough to consistently teach the merit badge, it was brought back in 2008 and 2009, but the Council has not been able to attain sailboats in good enough repair for the camp to use anymore. The lake has a temperature that stays between 35 and 55 °F (2 and 13 °C) during the summer. Passing the swim check is a rite of passage and swimming a mile in the lake is something that only between 10 and 20 people achieve every year.
Steiner offers two different shooting sports: rifle and archery, although these Merit Badges are subject to weather. Several other merit badges are offered at the camp. Merit Badges offered in Handicraft: Basketry, Indian Lore, Leatherwork and Woodcarving. Merit badges offered in Outdoor Skills, once called Scoutcraft: First Aid, Pioneering, Orienteering, Fishing, and Wilderness Survival. Nature merit badges offered: Environmental Science, Bird Study, Soil and Water Conservation, and Forestry. Also for the 2010 season, two of the historic (centennial) merit badges were offered: Signaling and Tracking.
Adventure activities are designed to keep older boys, who may already have Eagles, busy at camp. They include hiking, team building games, and the climbing merit badge. High Adventure staffers teach Leave No Trace training at least once a week.
There is also an action center program that teaches trail to first class.
Hinckley Scout Ranch
Hinckley Scout Ranch is named after Bryant Stringham Hinckley who was a member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association and made the case of for the Church to affiliate with the Boy Scouts of America. The camp contains the Thomas S. Monson Lodge a 23,000 Square Foot Building that serves as the centerpiece of the Scout Ranch.
History
In 2012 the East Fork of the Bear Scout Camp was renamed Hinckley Scout Ranch. Prior to the rename of the camp the contained 3 sub camps: Tomahawk, Frontier and Evergreen.
El-Ku-Ta Lodge
The first Ordeal for the El-Ku-Ta Lodge of the Order of the Arrow was held at Camp Steiner in June 1956. The ceremony team that conducted the ceremony could have either been from the Ogden area or from the Tannu Lodge in Reno, Nevada.
Executive pay controversy
In 2007 it was disclosed that the leader of the Great Salt Lake Council received more than $200,000 a year in compensation. The issue of executive pay became an issue again in 2011 during the annual Friends of Scouting campaign.