Trip Planning

Home Cooking Backpack & Canoe

Got to have it: our generic permission slip, Troop Discipline Policy and Knife Policy.

 

Local weather, to figure out what to wear.

Here's the BSA Annual Health & Medical Form for Mr. Roderick.

 

Start your trip planning now!

For SCOUTS, especially

For ADULTS, especially

bulletPlaces to go in Roundtable Packets from Buckeye District Roundtables, with great maps, tips, recipes, more!
bullet Other places to go, using a camping database
bullet Check ODNR's map of parks that have camping! Hocking Hills (rappelling, hiking); Kelley's Island (cooking); Lake Loramie (canoeing, fishing); Tar Hollow (backpacking, state forest prowling)... You get the point.
bullet Campout Planner & Duty Roster
bullet Patrol guidelines for organizing a Troop outing or activity.
bullet Stuff-to-take checklist. You also need stuff for your patrol, from the garage.
bullet What to do & how to prepare -- great print resources to help you Scouts do program planning:
bullet Volume I (Aquatics, Athletics, Backpacking, Boating / Canoeing, Business, Camping, Citizenship, Communications, Cooking, Cultural Awareness, Emergency Preparedness, Engineering)
bullet Volume II (Environment, First Aid, Fishing, Forestry, Health Care, High Adventure, Hiking, Hobbies, Leadership, Mechanics, Nature, Orienteering)
bullet Volume III (Physical Fitness, Pioneering, Public Safety, Science, Shooting, Special Cooking, Sports, Tracking, Wilderness Survival, Wildlife Management, Winter Camping)
bullet Special tips for Backpacking & Canoeing
bullet Cooking
bulletFrom Tom Strous, one of our Assistant Scoutmasters: Two simple rules for wilderness survival
bulletSome winter tips for those snowy times
bullet

Leave No Trace

bulletBegin with the end in mind: review BSA's materials to Trek Safely
bullet When you prepare for emergencies, use our BSA 365 emergency cheat sheet (2 pages). It asks (1) did you prepare a trip plan? take a copy? leave a copy behind? (2) do you have critical emergency stuff to take with you? and (3) before you leave, did you review emergency issues with leaders. The sheet includes a BSA 365 trip plan you can copy and carry.
bullet A review of outdoor trip planning, with tips and traps and who to call

The Boy Scout handbook has the newest online elements for you -- Scoutcraft, Woodcraft, Camp craft! Videos, maps, links.

 

Photos? Jeff Gilligan has posted some good ones at his website: check them out at this link!

 

The Boy Scout handbook has the newest online elements for you -- Scoutcraft, Woodcraft, Camp craft! Videos, maps, links.

 

Photos? Jeff Gilligan has posted some good ones at his website: check them out at this link!

 

 
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Last modified: 12/13/11