Level: 1
Requirements
- Be at least in the 6th grade or 11 years old.
- Develop a personal philosophy of outdoor etiquette, such as courtesy to other campers and outdoor conservation.
- Know and understand the following six W=s for the selection of a good campsite:
- Wind
- Water
- Wild things
- Wood
- Weather
- Willingness
- Demonstrate your ability to protect the wilderness and your water source by proper personal hygiene and cooking sanitation.
- Participate in a weekend campout.
- Take part in a camp worship service to include one of the following:
- Sabbath School lesson study
- Story
- Worship thought
- Leading song service
- Know how to safely light and use a camp stove and lantern.
- Know safety rules and demonstrate your ability to properly cut firewood.
- Demonstrate how to break dead wood properly.
- Using fuzz sticks or shaved sticks, build and know the use of a council or crisscross fire and one type of cooking fire. Review fire building safety rules.
- Explain two ways to keep camp food cool.
- Build two different camp cranes.
- Prepare camp meals using boiling, frying, and baking.
- Demonstrate tent site selection. Properly pitch and strike a tent. What precautions should be taken when striking a wet tent? Properly clean, dry, and store a tent.
- Bedding:
- Show proper ways to stuff or role your sleeping bag or bed roll for travel.
- Tell how to keep a sleeping bag or bed roll dry on a camping trip.
- Describe how to properly clean your sleeping bag or bed role.
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