Requirements June 1972 until June 1983

1. Make a layout of a typical patrol or post campsite. Include location of cooking facilities, dining fly, latrine, and at least three two-man tents.  Explain how and why weather, season, and water supply are taken into consideration when choosing a site.  Also explain what precautions are necessary with regard to safe water, sanitary facilities, and emergencies.

2. Make a written plan for getting to and from a campsite on foot or by vehicle.

3. Make a chart showing how a typical patrol is organized for an overnight camp.  List assignments for each member.

4. Prepare a checklist of clothing you would need for an overnight camp in:

(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.

Discuss with your counselor the types of footwear for various weather conditions.  Explain proper care of the feet.

5. Describe four kinds of packs.  Give their good and bad points.

6. Prepare for an overnight camp with your patrol by doing the following:*

(a) Make a checklist of personal and patrol gear that will be needed. 

(b) Prepare a lightweight camp menu that is right for the time of the year.  Give recipes.  Make a food list for your patrol.  List foods you can get from your grocery store.  Plan two breakfasts, three lunches, and two suppers.  (Some canned foods may be used.)

(c) Pack your own gear and your share of the patrol gear and food for proper carrying.  Protect it against bad weather.  Show that your pack is right for getting what's needed first, comfort, weight, balance, size, and neatness.  Explain how the rest of the patrol gear and food is divided among members.

(d) Show the right way to pack your full gear on a pack frame.  Use a diamond hitch or other good hitch.

7. Complete the following while on an overnight camp:

(a) Present yourself with your pack for inspection.  Be correctly clothed and equipped for an overnight camping trip.

(b) Working with another Scout, pitch a two man tent.  Consider weather and terrain.  On this campsite, where allowed, make a latrine for your patrol  (Where no allowed as in state parks, etc., describe how to build it.)

(c) Make a comfortable ground bed and use it for 2 nights.  Use ground cloth and padding of clothing, pack, grass, leaves, or straw. 

(d) Where it's allowed, build up a fireplace area of nonburnable soil.  Show proper use of woods tools in getting and preparing fuel for a cooking fire.  Show how, on a rainy day, you would get, prepare, and protect your wood.  Show how you would properly prepare a meal when it's raining.

(e) Build three kinds of top-of-the-ground fires.  Use charcoal for one.  Show how to put out a fire properly.  (Where open fires cannot be used, show how to build the fires, but don't light them.)

(f) Show the right way to protect your camp, including food and gear, against animals, insects, and wet or bad weather.  Discuss how you would protect yourself against kinds of weather if caught out on the trail with only a pocketknife.

(g) Strike camp.  Fold or roll your tent for packing.  Pack all gear.  Leave a clean camp.  Show the right way to get rid of garbage and rubbish.

8. Show experience in camping by the following:

(a) Camp out a total of at least 20 days and 20 nights.  Sleep each night under the sky or under a tent you have pitched.  (You may use a week of summer camp as a part of the 20 days and 20 nights.)

(b) On one of these camping trips, hike 1-1/2 miles or more each way to and from your campsite.  Pack your own gear plus your share of patrol gear and food.  (This camp is in addition to the one for Camping skill award.)

(c) Serve as one of the cooks for your patrol for at least five meals prepared in camp.

9.  Discuss how the things you did to earn this badge have taught you personal health and safety, survival, public health, conservation, and good citizenship.