Members of Boy Scout Troop 482 practiced using bear spray before they began their hiking/rafting expedition. Submitted Photo

Members of Boy Scout Troop 482 tramped and paddled their way through a Montana wilderness recently in a rafting/hiking outing.

Members of the troop spent July 2 through 11 at the Boone-Crockett Club on the Teddy Roosevelt Ranch outside of Great Falls, Mont.

The Boone-Crockett Club is a private conservation group providing this program to Scouts looking for high adventure, said Scoutmaster Rob Deemer.

Six scouts and four adults flew from Pittsburgh to Seattle and then to Great Falls, Mont., and then took vans to the ranch in Depuyer, Mont.

Deemer said the Scouts and adults spent two nights at the club getting dinner and training to use bear spray.

“Bears were a big concern, black and grizzly bears,” said Deemer. The Scouts didn’t see any on their hiking, rafting trip, Deemer said, except “for one little black speck on a hill.”

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