Tips for your backpacking & canoeing trek. Underneath it all is your need to Trek Safely. For your outing, much picking & packing & cooking transfers from one type of trek to the other. There are some important differences, though....
Backpacking
 | Hot (or cold): Winter camping / backpacking tips, required reading according to Mr. Roderick. |
| John Biesecker's Winter Camping Tips One and Winter Camping Tips Two |
| Vince Phillip's backpacking equipment list to prepare yourself for the Turtle |
| Vince Phillip's backpacking tips to make sure you carry your shell correctly |
| Dale Karweit's crew-gear list for backpackers, including his commentary about "don't try to bring the Dutch oven" |
| Dale Karweit's food & cooking for backpackers |
| Best of all, Vince Phillip's leadership tips for backpacking leaders. |
| From John Biesecker, material on camping on a budget, low-tech camping, improvising gear! |
Canoeing
| Safe Swim Defense & Safety Afloat training is available by Internet. This material is optimized for Microsoft Explorer. (Using Firefox will make the screen images very small.) Here's the direct URL: http://www.scouting.org/pubs/aquatics/index2.html |
| Don't forget water safety....check out the BSA guide to safety afloat & safe swim defense. |
| Mike Hock's canoe risks & scenes to test your emergency skills |
| A last-minute trek check list to make sure you've got good plans |
| Reminder of the skills needed in self-rescue (alone or with another paddler). |
| Then, of course, there's how to get it up alone. |
| A side-by-side of before-and-after-January 2005 canoe merit badge requirements. |
| And then there are Council Canoe Clinics for you: ask Mr. Hock for information & dates. |