Meeting #1: Let trailmen explain Low-Impact Camping and our desire to be good stewards.
- Have trailmen list essentials needed on a campout
- Identify items that can safely be left behind
- Trailmen state 3 reasons it is important to stay on trails
- Discuss fire safety
- When it's safe to build a fire
- Where to build a fire
- How to properly extinguish a fire
- Ask for a "Leave no trace" commitment
- Assign page 158 in the Handbook and tell them to be ready to explain the Hiker's Code at next meeting.
Meeting #2: Review the Hiker's Code/ Buddy System
- Ask trailmen to use the rules of Low Impact Camping and the Hiker's code to:
- plan the next campout or hike, and
- write out a plan to leave with a parent or Park official prior to a hike
Meeting #3: Campout #1
- Let Adventurers explain fire safety and demo how to build a cook fire. Before leaving camp, have them demo how to extinguish it.
- Review:
- How well did we stick to the Low-Impact Camping method? The Hiking Code?
- Did anyone encounter an unexpected hazard? How did you handle it?
- What might we do at our next event to be better stewards of God's creation?
- Before the next meeting, research Georgia's six poisonous snakes and top ten poisonous plants and be able to identify them from photos.
Meeting #4: Discuss Trail Safety as pertains to poisonous plants/animals.
- Ask trailmen to name and describe Georgia's six poisonous snakes and top ten poisonous plants
- Discuss what to do if you encounter a snake in the wild.
- Project photos of poisonous snakes/plants for trailmen to take a written quiz - (best 2 scores win a camping accessory)?
- Discuss natural hazards that may be encountered on a campout/hike and what to do if faced with them.
- Ask trailmen to read pp. 143-149 and:
- For the next meeting, know 3 ways to purify water from a natural water source, and
- Pack your backpack with essentials for a day hike and bring it to the next meeting to have it checked.
Meeting #5: At the beginning of the regular meeting:
- Check backpacks
- For packing technique
- For essentials
- Explain the use of an orienteering compass. Let trailmen practice indoors.
Meeting #6. Use a regular meeting for trailmen to practice orienteering outdoors.
- Can this be done with competing teams? Can the course be begun from 2 or 3 places at once? We don't want team 1 pioneering the way, and teams 2-4 simply following. We need them to be marking their maps and jotting down notes along the way. Upon completion of the course, they will turn in their maps.
- Goal is to complete the course accurately and in the least amount of time.
Meeting #7. Campout #2. Demonstrate and practice:
- Proper water and waste disposal methods
- Discuss and dig a temporary latrine and explain how to use it.
- Discuss proper disposal of dish and bath water
- Discuss where and how to dig a "cathole" and cover it after use.
- How to find course direction in daylight or by moonlight without a compass or GPS.
- Measuring the average length of your pace.
- Using the pacing and the felling method to measure the height of a flagpole or tree.
- Using a map and compass together to take a 5-mile hike as a troop.
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