Camping

1. Show your Counselor and Troop Leader/Outfit Advisor the following:
   1. Preparing for camp: clothes and equipment and how to pack them
   2. Camp shelter and sanitation, including tent pitching
   3. Safety precautions for a Patrol/Crew or Troop/Outfit camp

2. Make a camp lay-out and prepare a plan for a weekend camp including a schedule of activities; submit these to your Counselor. With the members of your Patrol/Crew or Troop/Outfit discuss the camp plan in the presence of the Troop Leader/Outfit Advisor and the Counselor. Carry out the camp plan.

3. While in camp, do the following:
   1. Make a comfortable ground bed and sleep on it. Use ground cloth and padding of clothing, grass, leaves or straw
   2. Make a camp table, a tripod for suspending camp supplies, clothes line or other camp conveniences using proper lashing techniques

4. Show and explain the proper method of storing and protecting your food and equipment against small animals, insects, and wet weather.

5. Tell how you would protect yourself against wet weather and cold while in camp.

6. Camp a total of at least twenty (20) days and twenty (20) nights outdoors. Provide evidence to your Troop Leader/Outfit Advisor and Counselor that these camps met the required standards. You can include weekend camps and a week of summer camp as part of the 20 days and nights.