Start your planning now!

For SCOUTS

It’s time to decide where to go, what to do. 

• Start with an Event Planning Template. 

• End with a debriefing and Activity Critique Report. 

Need Ideas?

• 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.

• Cooking — all about how to cook, what to cook, looking good while you cook.

• Campout Planner & Duty Roster

• Patrol guidelines for organizing a Troop outing or activity

• Stuff-to-take checklist. Don’t forget stuff for your patrol, from the garage.

• What to do & how to prepare — great print resources to help you Scouts do planning:

  • Volume I (Aquatics, Athletics, Backpacking, Boating / Canoeing, Business, Camping, Citizenship, Communications, Cooking, Cultural Awareness, Emergency Preparedness, Engineering)

  • Volume II (Environment, First Aid, Fishing, Forestry, Health Care, High Adventure, Hiking, Hobbies, Leadership, Mechanics, Nature, Orienteering)

  • Volume III (Physical Fitness, Pioneering, Public Safety, Science, Shooting, Special Cooking, Sports, Tracking, Wilderness Survival, Wildlife Management, Winter Camping)

• Special tips for Backpacking & Canoeing

• Some Winter Tips for those snowy times

• Leave No Trace

For ADULTS

• Begin with the end in mind: review BSA’s materials to Trek Safely

• When you prepare for emergencies, use our BSA 365 Emergency Cheat Sheet. 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? 

  3. Before you leave, did you review emergency issues with leaders. 

• BSA 365 Trip Plan you can copy and carry.

• A review of Outdoor Trip Planning, with tips and traps and who to call.