Camping Scout's Name: ________________________
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Discuss how to protect your food against bad weather, animals, and contamination.
d. While camping in the outdoors, cook at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner for your patrol from the
meals you have planned for requirement 8c.
. At least one of those meals must be a trail meal requiring the use of a lightweight stove
9. Show experience in camping by doing the following:
a. Camp a total of at least 20 nights at designated Scouting activities or events. One long-term camping experience of
up to six consecutive nights may be applied toward this requirement. Sleep each night under the sky or in a tent you
have pitched. If the camp provides a tent that has already been pitched, you need not pitch your own tent.
b. On any of these camping experiences, you must do TWO of the following, only with proper preparation and qualified
supervision:
1. Hike up a mountain where, at some point, you are at least 1,000 feet higher in elevation from where you started.
2. Backpack, snowshoe, or cross-country ski for at least four miles.
3. Take a bike trip of at least 15 miles or at least four hours.
4. Take a nonmotorized trip on the water of at least four hours or 5 miles.
5. Plan and carry out an overnight snow camping experience.
6. Rappel down a rappel route of 30 feet or more.
c. Perform a conservation project approved by the landowner or land managing agency. This can be done alone or
with others
The requirements for Cooking merit badge include the following note immediately befoe requirements 4, 5, & 6.
Note: The meals prepared for Cooking merit badge requirements 4, 5, and 6 will count only toward fulfilling
those requirements and will not count toward rank advancement or other merit badges. Meals
prepared for rank advancement or other merit badges may not count toward the Cooking merit badge.
You must not repeat any menus for meals actually prepared or cooked in requirements 4, 5, and 6.
Therefore, The meals prepared for Camping merit badge requirement 8d may not count toward Cooking merit badge,
requirements 4, 5, or 6. Meals prepared for Cooking merit badge requirements 4, 5, and 6 may not count toward
Camping merit badge requirement 8d.