[Updated April 22, 2007]
IN PACK FAMILY CAMPING, SCOUTS WILL:
Follow the scout promise - Learn and follow the outdoor code (below)
- Function in a small groups or patrols.
- Help set-up and take-down family and pack camp site, including:
- Hand wash stations (“piddlators”)
- Dish-wash station
- Trash and sump
- Tents and family gear
- Participate in preparation and clean-up of meals.
- Help keep campsite clean and safe.
- Be accountable for themselves and their space.
- Earn awards for successful completion of responsibilities and activities.
- Work with close supervision and encouragement from their group’s adult guides.
- LEARN AND HAVE FUN!!!
PARTNERS AND SUPERVISION: - Buddy system always on excursions.
- Adults lead and follow on hikes.
- Parents involved in all activities, as partners and supervisors.
- No scout leaves the site without an adult and without telling a leader.
- Each scout must be accompanied by a parent or by an adult designated by a parent. The designee cannot be a scout leader. Leaders must have up-to-date health forms, permission slips, and emergency contact information for each scout.
- Scout leaders are in charge.
- No alcohol or tobacco
SAFETY: - Adults supervise always, and model behavior for the boys.
- No stick play or rock throwing
- No running in the camp site
- No playing with material in fires, anything that goes into the fire stays there.
- Matches and fire starters to be used by adults only.
- Emergency water near fires and stoves.
- Fires put out to be cool to the touch.
- No combustible material within 8 feet of any fire, including overhead.
- No tool use without adult supervision.
- Tigers and Wolves are not generally permitted to use wood tools. We will permit scouts to use small saws only with closest parental supervision.
- Woodcutting occurs only in a designated area. The area includes V-log to hold logs to be sawed.
- Always use “Thank-You – You’re-Welcome” rule for passing tools.
- Firewood must be stacked neatly and out of the way.
HYGENE AND CAMP CLEANLINESS: - A whole other page on this!
THE OUTDOOR CODE I will do my best to: - Be Clean in my outdoor manners
- Be Careful with fire
- Be Considerate in the outdoors, and
- Be Conservation minded.
Scouts will leave the site with no trace that we have been there, except that it will be cleaner than the way we found it. |
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