Robert Blackwell is the Climbing Director at Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation, Camp Meade. Rob did not grow up in the scouting program. He says he first got involved with the Boy Scouts through the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation. His curiosity about C.O.P.E. and climbing led him to accept the position and join the climbing staff at camp. As director of the program, he gets an overview perspective and says the most important outcome is watching the scouts grow and become young men. Rob says it is ‘the people’ that drive the scouting movement forward.