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Suggested Meeting Activities

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Meeting #1:  Let trailmen explain Low-Impact Camping and our desire to be good stewards.   

  1. Have trailmen list essentials needed on a campout
  2. Identify items that can safely be left behind
  3. Trailmen state 3 reasons it is important to stay on trails
  4. Discuss fire safety
    1. When it's safe to build a fire
    2. Where to build a fire
    3. How to properly extinguish a fire 
  5. Ask for a "Leave no trace" commitment
  6. 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

  1. Ask trailmen to use the rules of Low Impact Camping and the Hiker's code to:
    1. plan the next campout or hike, and
    2. write out a plan to leave with a parent or Park official prior to a hike

 

Meeting #3:  Campout #1

  1. Let Adventurers explain fire safety and demo how to build a cook fire.   Before leaving camp, have them demo how to extinguish it.
  2. Review:
    1. How well did we stick to the Low-Impact Camping method?  The Hiking Code?
    2. Did anyone encounter an unexpected hazard?  How did you handle it?
    3. What might we do at our next event to be better stewards of God's creation?
  3. 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.  

  1. Ask trailmen to name and describe Georgia's six poisonous snakes and top ten poisonous plants 
  2. Discuss what to do if you encounter a snake in the wild.
  3. Project photos of poisonous snakes/plants for trailmen to take a written quiz - (best 2 scores win a camping accessory)?
  4. Discuss natural hazards that may be encountered on a campout/hike and what to do if faced with them.
  5. Ask trailmen to read pp. 143-149 and:
    1. For the next meeting, know 3 ways to purify water from a natural water source, and
    2. 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:

  1. Check backpacks
    1. For packing technique
    2. For essentials
  2. Explain the use of an orienteering compass.  Let trailmen practice indoors.

 

Meeting #6.  Use a regular meeting for trailmen to practice orienteering outdoors.

  1. 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.
  2. Goal is to complete the course accurately and in the least amount of time.

 

Meeting #7.  Campout #2.   Demonstrate and practice:

  1. Proper water and waste disposal methods
    1. Discuss and dig a temporary latrine and explain how to use it.
    2. Discuss proper disposal of dish and bath water
    3. Discuss where and how to dig a "cathole" and cover it after use.
  2. How to find course direction in daylight or by moonlight without a compass or GPS.
  3. Measuring the average length of your pace.
  4. Using the pacing and the felling method to measure the height of a flagpole or tree.
  5. Using a map and compass together to take a 5-mile hike as a troop.

 

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