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Be flexible.
Each week, many Scouts attend camp.
While staff is there to meet everyone's needs, at times staff resources
can be overbooked. A Scout is friendly,
cheerful, and courteous. We need to
practice the Scout Law in camp when dealing with others.
Your camp area is your home for the week so work
at making it comfortable by bringing banners and flags to dress it up.
You should schedule time for rest! That's right.
Too often, you don't take time to sit and enjoy the beauty at camp
around you.
Don't keep such a pace that you miss the trees,
the nature, and the clean-fresh air.
Camps over many great places to explore.
Communicate.
If you have a special need or want to do something spectacular, tell us
about it and we'll give it our best shot. We'll gladly listen to your suggestions; we
want to be the best.
You should come to camp prepared. Have dens already organized.
Boys should try something new at camp and get a
well-rounded experience. Visit and
participate in the program in all program areas.
Top packs show spirit. The pack that comes to camp with ideas and
spirit and challenges make the rest of camp come alive. Bring your pack spirit to camp and show
everyone that you're number one.
Lots of sugar (candy, ice cream, soda, punch,
etc.) intake just before bedtime leads to a very restless night.
You should come to camp prepared. Have
patrols already organized. Elect patrol
leaders at home. Work on ideas as
patrols and have the patrol leaders represent the group at camp.
Summer camp is not a merit badge mill, where you
pay a fee and get four or five badges automatically. Instead, camp offers
advancement as one portion of the overall program.
The first year Scout camper, generally speaking,
should try no more than two merit badges (and one of these should be a
handicraft badge). Others will argue this point. We won't argue; we'll let you have the boy
take as many as he wants, but experience shows us that...
You should plan on a maximum of three merit
badges per boy per week. Some have earned upwards of six but that is the
exception.
The most difficult badges to earn are those
requiring a great deal of physical skill, coordination and stamina: Lifesaving,
Rifle Shooting, Environmental Science, etc..
Complete advance written work at home, camp is
not an ideal classroom for written work and the prepared Scout comes to camp
with all written work already done.
Complete the camp Merit
Badge Record form (see appendix for an original) for each merit badge a boy
plans to work on while at camp before you get to camp.
Boys should try something new at camp and get a
well-rounded experience. Try a handicraft badge, a nature badge and an
aquatic or Scoutcraft badge combination.
Top troops show spirit. The troop that
comes to camp with ideas and spirit and challenges make the rest of camp come
alive. Bring your troop cheer to camp
and show everyone that you're number one.
Your entire fluid intake for a week on the trail
cannot come from soda pop. You must drink water!
If you have a serious condition such as a
stomach ulcer, let somebody know before you go on a trek.
Trivial Pursuit is a great game, but it sits
like a brick in the bottom of your pack.
Surgical sutures are great for reattaching
shoulder straps to your backpack.
Helicopter rides out of the Shawnee State
Forest are very
expensive.
Airlines hate backpacking stoves. They
hate backpacking stove fuel even more.
