Man collecting memorabilia for Treasure Mountain Scout Camp display and he wants your help

IDAHO FALLS – Participating successful Boy Scouts was a item of Jason Stucki’s puerility and immoderate of his fondest memories revolve astir nan clip he spent astatine Treasure Mountain Scout Camp.

Though it’s been respective years since nan 76-acre spot successful Teton Canyon ceased operation, nan 43-year-old Iona autochthonal is actively gathering patches and different memorabilia and is hoping to yet person a nationalist spot to show it.

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“I want to build a show container that represents nan full history, aliases arsenic overmuch of nan history arsenic possible, of Treasure Mountain,” Stucki tells EastIdahoNews.com. “It would see patches, vintage postcards. There are a fewer mugs and a fewer small chachki-type memorabilia pieces — loop buckles and small woody nickels pinch engraved images connected them.”

Stucki has a immense postulation of patches already that includes almost each spot from nan twelvemonth of its founding successful 1939 to its last twelvemonth of campy successful 2018. Stucki says nan early patches and nan astir caller patches are nan easiest to find, but there’s a scope of years wherever search down patches is difficult.

“There’s this model from for illustration 1978 to astir 1982 that is difficult to find,” he says.

There are different bid of patches created betwixt 1989 and 1994 that Stucki says are “almost intolerable to find.”

“In those 5 years, location are immoderate larger versions called a overgarment spot … that were only for scout leaders, aliases only for scouts aliases unit members,” Stucki explains.

He’d for illustration to complete nan postulation and he’s asking nan organization for help.

Jason Stucki, left, and a schematic showing nan items he still needs. If you person patches aliases different items, email him via jasonlstucki@gmail.com. | Courtesy Jason Stucki

Along nan way, he’s hoping to cod items from others who’ve attended nan campy complete nan years to beryllium portion of nan display.

Though he hasn’t spoken pinch anyone astir it, he thinks having a spot successful nan Special Collections Department astatine Brigham Young University-Idaho aliases nan Museum of Idaho mightiness beryllium a bully fit.

Wherever nan items are placed, Stucki wants it to beryllium a neutral location that’s not operated by nan Grand Teton Council.

“I don’t want it to spell to nan scout agency because I don’t deliberation very galore group successful eastbound Idaho are progressive successful scouting anymore,” says Stucki.

Stucki is an Eagle scout and attended Treasure Mountain arsenic a scout and a leader. He was progressive each twelvemonth from 1993 to 1999 and past again successful 2002 and 2003. He now lives successful Mapleton, Utah.

One of nan highlights of Stucki’s acquisition astatine Treasure Mountain was his relationship pinch Dale Marcum. Marcum, who passed distant successful 2021 astatine property 93, was a unit personnel astatine nan campy for galore years and Stucki describes him arsenic a “legend.”

Dale Marcum | Courtesy Jason Stucki

Dale’s son, Tom, tells america his dada was progressive successful scouting passim his life. He was capable to yet get his Eagle arsenic an adult, a rank that is now only disposable to scouts earlier their 18th birthday.

Tom says his dada loved nan scouting programme because it taught boys important life skills and nan worth of integrity and difficult work. Tom attended scout campy astatine Treasure Mountain for respective years, wherever he served arsenic an adjunct scout maestro to his dad.

Though Dale had galore experiences astatine Treasure Mountain that stood retired to him, Tom says what his dada loved astir about it was “being pinch nan boys” and interacting pinch them.

A photograph showing a position astatine Treasure Mountain Scout Camp | Courtesy Jared Fisher

The Grand Teton Council acquired nan campy successful 1939. Vernon Strong, nan council’s first Eagle Scout, and Oscar Kirkham, a euphony coach astatine Ricks College who wrote galore scout-themed songs, played a domiciled successful nan camp’s founding, according to historical records.

A assembly committee selected it aft looking astatine dozens of sites successful nan area. Chief Rock is 1 of nan main reasons it was chosen, Grand Teton Council CEO Clarke Farrer told america successful 2020.

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The scouts utilized nan tract done a typical usage licence pinch nan Forest Service. It was allowed to expire successful December 2021.

U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Jared Fisher says Grand Teton Council is successful nan last stages of rehabilitating nan area earlier giving it backmost to nan Forest Service.

Once nan Forest Service takes over, Fisher says they’ll statesman a readying process to talk nan site’s future.

“Our volition is to make nan tract accessible to nan public. We cognize this is simply a beloved area that is important to a batch of group successful eastbound Idaho and nan Teton Canyon area receives a precocious magnitude of use. Through nan Great American Outdoors Act, we person been investing successful a number of upgrades successful that area, including enhancements to nan roadworthy and expanding bath facilities,” Fisher says.

Additional specifications will beryllium forthcoming arsenic nan chat gets underway.

Meanwhile, anyone who has items they’d for illustration to lend to Stucki’s postulation tin nonstop him an email via jasonlstucki@gmail.com.

This is 1 of nan structures that will stay successful spot erstwhile nan scouts move complete nan site. | Courtesy Jared Fisher