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Backpacking

Merit Badge Counselor: TestMBC1

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Giving Back Through This Course

This course is led by a volunteer Merit Badge Counselor who shares their time, experience, and enthusiasm to help Scouts learn.

Scouting Badger provides an eligible course stipend in recognition of the time and effort involved in creating and leading this course.

TestMBC1 has designated the following recipient for this course:

Troop 929

Donation to the local scout troop.

Earning the Backpacking merit badge will be demanding but rewarding. Scouts will learn what equipment to carry on their backs and what knowledge to have in their heads. In addition. Scouts will discover how to protect the environment by traveling and camping without leaving a trace. By mastering the basics of backpacking, Scouts will develop an even deeper respect for the outdoors.

Registration $15.00

Log in as a parent to enroll, or as a scout to ask your parent to register you.

Requirements

Show/tell/discuss/demonstrate items require live interactive review — worksheets alone cannot complete them.

  • 1. Discuss the prevention of and treatment for the health concerns that could occur while backpacking, including hypothermia, heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration, insect stings, tick bites, snakebite, and blisters.

  • 2. Do the following:

  • 3. Do the following:

  • 4. Do the following:

    • (b) Describe proper methods of handling human and other wastes while on a backpacking trek. Describe the importance of and means to assure personal cleanliness while on a backpacking trek.

  • 5. Do the following:

    • (a) Demonstrate two ways to treat water and tell why water treatment is essential.

  • 6. Do the following:

    • (c) Explain how to stay found, and what to do if you get lost.

  • 7. Tell how to properly prepare for and deal with inclement weather.

  • 8. Do the following:

    • (d) Demonstrate that you know how to keep cooking and eating gear clean and sanitary, and that you practice proper methods for food storage while on a backpacking trek.

  • 9. Do the following:

    • (e) While using the plan you developed for requirement 9(a), carry your fully loaded pack to complete a hike of at least 2 miles.

  • 10. Following the Leave No Trace Seven Principles and the Outdoor Code, participate in at least three backpacking treks of at least three days each and at least 15 miles each, and using at least two different campsites on each trek. Carry everything you will need throughout the trek.

  • 11. Do the following: