Camping Merit Badge Req 9a

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Actually if you look closely at the requirements (particularly 9B), it will be readily apparent to you that long-term camps a.k.a summer camps do not afford the scout the ability to complete all the requirements so using more than one long-term camp makes no sense so it is not allowed. Some BSA historian might point out that the req used to be 50 days/nights with no long-term camps.

 

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Camping

 

9A was essentially reworded to take out the term "days" of camping because folks wanted to argue that Saturday AM or departure day should count for the MB.(This message has been edited by NACAP)

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Originally, and by that I mean the 1911 Handbook for Boys has the following requirements for Camping:

 

1. Have slept in the open or under canvas at different times fifty nights.

2. Have put up a tent alone and ditched it.

3. Have made a bed of wild material and a fire without matches.

4. State how to choose a camp site and how to prepare for rain; how to build a latrine (toilet) and how to dispose of the camp garbage and refuse.

5. Know how to construct a raft.

 

So if you want to get technical about it, originally you could count all the BSA summer camp camping or family camping you want. Including camping in your back yard ;-) However, it does say "at different times" I guess inferring something, what is anyone's guess.

 

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