Camping requirement

[regina_dutcher 10]

I don't see where many of you feel that the requirements of a merit badge are open for interpretation by the counselor or the scoutmaster. They are clearly not & if you don't believe it, simply look at the merit badge counselors guide. It expressly states that you may not change, delete or add to any requirements. They must be filled exactly as stated. The camping requirement does not state where the camping must take place. Anyone in any troop who interprets this is wrong and are not abiding by the rules of a merit badge counselor but simply fulfilling their own personal needs.

[evmori 11]

By not defining where or when the camping must take place leaves it up to the MB counselor what to accept. So the blanket statement

 

Anyone in any troop who interprets this is wrong and are not abiding by the rules of a merit badge counselor but simply fulfilling their own personal needs

 

is incorrect.

 

Ed Mori

Troop 1

1 Peter 4:10

[Beavah 205]

ANOTHER requirement fundamentalist thread? It just never gets old, does it?

 

Of course the counselor has to interpret the requirements in light of the aims and the local conditions. If we didn't want the counselor to use his/her best judgment most of the time, then we would have to make the requirements book as long as the U.S. Administrative code - dozens of volumes of fine type.

 

Complete 20 days of camping. That includes nights, but not if you happen to be in Alaska where the sun doesn't set in the summer. Camping must be outdoors, not in a basement or garage or cabin. However, it can be in an Adirondack shelter with 3 sides, but not if you hang a tarp on the 4th side, except in winter in states north of 40 degrees north latitude, where animal skins or burlap can be used to contain heat on the 4th side, but only if hand-lashed and tied using T21 knots. Camping must include actually doing work to make yourself comfortable in the outdoors, rather than hiring servants/parents to do everything for you, unless you do the fundraising to pay the servants yourself by working for a trail conservation group for at least 5 consecutive 8 hour days....

 

Aiieeee.

 

 

 

 

[stlscouter 10]

Beavah

do one person backpacking tents violate the buddy system?

 

And wilderness survival mb says to sleep in the shelter you have built (9). If you get ticks and chiggers when sleeping in the shelter do you automatically not pass (10)?

 

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