Cool Christianity and Cool Scouting

[Kudu 186]

Note that you can get all of the camping requirements for Eagle signed off without ever walking into the woods with a pack on your back.

 

The only real camping requirement in Camping Merit Badge, the low-level three mile (round trip!) backpacking overnight, was replaced with non-camping options such as riding your bike around or floating downstream on an inner-tube eating cupcakes.

 

What most BSA Troops call "camping" is known in the rest of the world as "static camping." The purpose of static camping is to learn the Scoutcraft skills necessary for real camping, which is called "Journeys," "Expeditions," and (of course) Patrol outings.

 

Baden-Powell's camping requirements were measured by nights+distance, not merely "nights." For instance, the First Class Journey: Go on foot, with three other Scouts, on a 24-hour journey of at least 15 miles.

 

The Journey and Expeditions requirements of increasing difficulty can be found at:

 

http://inquiry.net/advancement/traditional/journey_requirements.htm

 

Yours at 300 feet,

 

Kudu