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- Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses
that could occur while camping, including hypothermia,
heatstroke, heat exhaustion, frostbite, dehydration,
sunburn, insect stings, tick bites, snakebite, and
blisters.
- Learn the Leave No Trace principles and the Outdoor Code
and explain what they mean. Write a personal plan for
implementing these principles on your next outing.
- Make a written plan for an overnight trek and explain how
to get to your camping spot using a topographical map and
compass.
- Make a chart showing how a typical patrol is organizaed
for an overnight campout. List assignments for each
member.
- Do the following:
- Prepare a list of clothing you would need for an
overnight campouts in warm weather and in cold
weather.
- Discuss footwear for different kinds of weather
and how the right footwear is important for
protecting your feet.
- Explain the proper care and storage of camping
equipment (clothing, footwear, bedding).
- Explain the term "layering."
- Present yourself with your pack for inspection.
Be correctly clothed and equipped for an
overnight campout.
- Do the following:
- Descripe the features of four types of tents and
how to care for tents. Working with another
Scout, pitch a tent.
- Discuss the reasons and methods of water
purification. Discuss camp sanitation.
- Tell the difference between "internal"
and "external" fram packs. Discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Discuss the types of sleeping bags and what kind
would be suitable for different conditions.
Explain the proper care of your sleeping bag.
Make a comfortable ground bed.
- Prepare for an overnight campout with your patrol by
doing the following:
- Make a checklist of personal and patrol gear that
will be needed.
- Prepare a camp menu that is right for
backpacking. Give recipes and make a foodlist for
your patrol. Plan two breakfasts, three lunches,
and two suppers. Discuss how to protect your food
against bad weather, animals, and contamination.
- Pack your own gear and your share of the patrol
equipment and food for proper carrying. Show that
your pack is right for quickly getting what is
needed first, and that it has been assembled
properly for comfort, weight, balance, size, and
neatness.
- Do the following:
- Explain the safety procedures when using a:
- Propane or butane/propane stove
- Liquid fuel stove
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
different types of lightweight cooking stoves.
- Cook for your patrol a trail meal requiring the
use of a lightweight stove.
- Show experience in camping by doing the following:
- Camp out a total of at least 20 days and 20
nights. (You may use a week of long-term camp
toward this requirement.) Sleep each night under
the sky or under a tent you have pitched.
- On any of these camping experiences, you must do
TWO of the following, only with proper
preparation and qualified supervision:
- Hike up a mountain, gaining at least
2,000 vertical feet.
- Backpack for at least four miles.
- Take a bike trip of at least 15 miles or
at least four hours.
- Plan and carry out a float trip of at
least four hours.
- Rappel down a rappel route of 30 feet or
more.
- On one of your campouts, perform a
conservation project approved in advance
by the private land owner or public land
management agency.
- Discuss how the things you did to earn this badge have
taught you about personal health and safety, survival,
public health, conservation, and good citizenship.