Trip Planning

Up Advancement Trip Planning Training for Adults Forms Calendar

 

   

   

Start your trip planning now!

For SCOUTS, especially

For ADULTS, especially

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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.

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Other places to go, using a camping database

bulletPlaces to go in Roundtable Packets from Buckeye District Roundtables, with great maps, tips, recipes, more!
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
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Leave No Trace

bullet Begin with the end in mind: review BSA's materials to Trek Safely
bullet NEW BSA tour permit for a local trip Leading a local trip requires a tour permit from the local Scout council. This must be completed ten days beforehand. The newest trip permit can be filled out on-line & has a "youth protection" provision on the top of the second page: if you print this, watch the length of the page. (We've NOT included the "my account" tour permit link here; it includes too much confidential info.)
bulletBSA national tour permit for a longer trip Leading a longer trip (500 miles or more one-way) requires a tour permit processed by the local Scout council and approved by the national Boy Scout office. This takes about three months to obtain. (We've NOT included the "my account" tour permit link here; it includes too much confidential info.)
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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

 

 

 

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

 
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