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Tenderfoot |
Second Class |
First Class |
| First Campout |
Before: 4bd, 5ab
During: 1ab, 2ab, 3d
After: 1c, 5d |
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| Second Campout |
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Before: 2ad, 3d
During: 1ac, 2bcde, 3d
After: 1b |
After: 9c |
| Third Campout |
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Before: 2abc, 5b, 9c
During: 1a, 2de, 4b
After: 1b, 9c |
Items in Bold should be done associated with a campout. Others are recommended or much easier on a campout.
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Describe what hazardous or poisonous plants are in our area and how to treat for exposure to them (TF: 4b)
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Pack a personal first aid kit and tell how each item would be used (TF: 4.d).
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Explain the importance of and how to use the buddy system. Use buddy system on campout (TF: 5a).
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Explain what to do if you become lost (TF: 5b).
- Show your bag packed for the trip to your leader, with your personal and camping gear. Show the right way to pack and carry it. (TF: 1a).
- Help pitch your tent and sleep in it overnight (TF: 1b).
- Help cook a meal. Tell why it’s important for patrol members to help cook and clean (TF: 2a).
- Demonstrate the right way to clean up kitchen gear (TF: 2b).
- Learn how and demonstrate how to use, sharpen and care for a knife, axe and saw (TF: 3.d).
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Tell how you practiced the outdoor code and leave no trace on the campout (TF: 1c).
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Explain why it is important to hike on trails or other durable surfaces, and give examples of durable surfaces you saw on your outing. (TF: 5d)
- Explain when to cook with fire and when not to (2C: 2a)
- Learn how to set up and light a troop propane stove (2C: 2d),
- Help plan a balanced hot breakfast or lunch (2C: part of 2e).
- Find out how to find directions without using a compass or electronic device (2C: part of 3d).
- Learn what makes a good patrol site and what factors to consider when pitching a tent (2C: 1c)
- Show your patrol leader, troop guide or SPL how to pick a good patrol site and explain what makes a good campsite (2C: 1c). This one is frequently forgotten!
- Prepare wood, tinder and kindling for a cooking fire using at least a knife and potentially ax, and/or saw (2C: 2b).
- Prepare a fire using a minimum-impact method, light it, and show how to safely extinguish the fire and dispose of the ashes and charred remains (2C: 2c).
- Cook the meal you planned and demonstrate how to transfer, store and prepare the food (2C: 2e).
- Show how to find directions at day and night without a compass or electronic device (2C: 3d). ● Sleep in a tent you helped pitch (2C: part of 1.a).
- Recite the Leave No Trace Seven Principles from memory, and how you follow them on all outings (2C: 1b).
- Talk about what garbage and recycling you and your patrol produced during the campout (first part of 1C: 9c) This multi-part requirement is frequently forgotten!
- Plan how you can reduce the amount of trash and garbage you and your patrol produce during the campout (next part of 1C: 9c).
- Help plan a menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. At least two of the meals must be cooked (heated). The meals must be nutritionally balanced (1C: 2a)
- Write a shopping list for the meals you planned. Include budget and amounts. Shop for the food (1C: 2b).
- Show which pans and utensils will be needed to cook the meals you planned (1C: 2c).
- Identify at least two ways to obtain a weather forecast for an activity (1C: 5b).
- Use a GPS device to help your driver navigate to the campout. Show how you know where you are, and the route you should take (1C: 4b)
- Demonstrate the procedures for safely handling and storing fresh meats, vegetables, eggs, and other perishable food. Show how to properly dispose of camp garbage and waste water (1C: 2d)
- Serve as cook. Supervise an assistant cook. Prepare the meals you planned. Supervise the cleanup. (1C: 2e)
- Sleep in a tent you helped pitch (1C: part of 1.a).
- Explain the potential impacts of camping on the environment and other users. Explain why outdoor code and leave no trace are important for protecting the outdoors. (1C: 1b)
- Discuss how you were able to reduce the amount of trash and garbage you and your patrol produced during the campout (1C: 9c).
Note: the “real” requirement is in your scout handbook. What’s written here might not be the entire requirement, but it is a reminder of what the requirement is.
Updated 9/10/2024 with the new rank requirements as of 1/1/2024 - MSP
- Make a written plan 1 for an overnight trek and show how to get to your camping spot by using a topographical map and one of the following:
a. A compass
b. A GPS receiver 2
c. A smartphone with a GPS app 2
- Do the following:
a. Make a duty roster showing how your patrol is organized for an actual overnight campout. List assignments for each member.
b. Help a Scout patrol or a Webelos Scout unit in your area prepare for an actual campout, including creating the duty roster, menu planning, equipment needs, general planning, and setting up camp.
- Do the following:
a. Present yourself to your Scoutmaster with your pack for inspection. Be correctly clothed and equipped for an overnight campout.
- Do the following:
a. Describe the features of four types of tents, when and where they could be used, and how to care for tents. Working with another Scout, pitch a tent.
b. Discuss the importance of camp sanitation and tell why water treatment is essential. Then demonstrate two ways to treat water.
c. Discuss the types of sleeping bags and what kind would be suitable for different conditions. Explain the proper care of your sleeping bag and how to keep it dry. Make a comfortable ground bed.
- Prepare for an overnight campout with your patrol 3 by doing the following:
a. Pack your own gear and your share of the patrol equipment and food for proper carrying. Show that your pack is right for quickly getting what is needed first, and that it has been assembled properly for comfort, weight, balance, size, and neatness.
- Do the following:
a. While camping in the outdoors, cook at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner for your patrol from the meals you have planned for requirement 8c. At least one of those meals must be a trail meal requiring the use of a lightweight stove
- Camp Cooking. Do the following:
- (Requirements a-c involve creating a menu for two breakfasts, one lunch, one dinner, one snack and one dessert for a patrol. The plan needs to include recipes, a shopping list, and a budget. One of the meals should be cooked as foil pack or skewers, and one of the meals should be cooked in dutch oven or on a skillet over campfire coals)
- In the outdoors, using your menu plans and recipes for this requirement, cook two of the four meals you planned using either a camp stove OR backpack stove. Use a skillet over campfire coals OR a Dutch oven for a third meal, and cook a fourth meal in a foil pack OR on a skewer. Serve all of these meals to your patrol or a group of youth.**
- In the outdoors, prepare a dessert and a snack and serve both of these to your patrol or a group of youth.**
- After each meal, have those you served evaluate the meal on presentation and taste, and then evaluate your own meal. Discuss what you learned with your counselor, including any adjustments that could have improved or enhanced your meals. Tell how planning and preparation help ensure successful outdoor cooking.
- Lead the clean-up of equipment, utensils, and the cooking site thoroughly after each meal. Properly store or dispose unused ingredients, leftover food, dishwater and garbage.
- Trail and backpacking meals. Do the following:
- (requirements a-c involve planning a menu for a trail hike or backpack trip with one breakfast, one lunch, one dinner, and one snack for 3-5 people, creating a shopping list with amounts and cost, and planning to repackage to eliminate weight, bulk, and garbage)
- While on a trail hike or backpacking trip, prepare and serve two meals and a snack from the menu planned for this requirement. At least one of those meals must be cooked over a fire, or an approved trail stove (with proper supervision).**
- After each meal, have those you served evaluate the meal on presentation and taste, then evaluate your own meal. Discuss what you learned with your counselor, including any adjustments that could have improved or enhanced your meals. Tell how planning and preparation help ensure successful trail hiking or backpacking meals.