2. Do the following:
(a) List 10 items which are essential to be carried
on any overnight backpacking trek and explain why each item is necessary
(b) Describe 10 ways you can limit the weight and
bulk to be carried in your pack without jeopardizing your health or safety.
3. Do the following:
(a) Define the limits on the number of backpackers
who should be in a backpacking crew.
(b) Explain the reason for the upper and lower limit
in a backpacking crew.
4. Tell environmental considerations that are important for backpackers and describe five ways to lesson their impact on the environment. Describe proper methods for disposing of solid and liquid wastes.
5. Demonstrate two ways to purify water and tell why water purification is essential.
6. Demonstrate that you can read topographical maps. While on a hike, use a map and compass to establish your position on the terrain at random times and places.
7. Tell how to prepare properly for an deal with inclement weather while on a backpacking trek.
8. Do the following:
(a) Explain the advantages and disadvantages of
three different types of backpacking stoves using at least three different
types of fuel.
(b) Demonstrate that you know hoe to operate a backpacking
stove safely and to handle liquid fuel safely.
(c) Prepare at least three meals using a stove and
fuel can carry in a backpack.
9. Do the following:
(a) Plan a patrol backpacking
hike.
(b) Properly pack your own gear and your share
of the crew equipment and food. Protect it against inclement weather.
Show that your pack allows you to get quickly to items you may need on
the trail and provides for comfort, balance, and neatness. Show how
to use effectively a pack frame and hip strap to distribute weight on your
body.
(c) Conduct a prehike inspection
of the patrol and its equipment.
(d) Carrying your pack, complete
a hike of at least 2 miles.
10. Take three backpacking treks. Each must consist of at least 3 days duration with two different overnight campsites, and each must cover at least 15 miles. Carry everything you will need throughout the trek.
11. Do the following:
(a) In addition, assist in planning and take
a backpacking trek of at least 5 days with at least three different campsites,
covering at least 30 miles. Your written plan
submitted to your counselor must include route, food, and menus, equipment
and emergency notification. Prepare light-weight, reasonable priced
trail menus. Carry everything you need throughout the
entire trek.
(b) On returning, tell what you did to get
in shape for this trek and how you might do it different.
2. Explain and show, where possible, the main points of good hiking practices.
3. Make a written plan for a 10-mile hike. Include map routes, a clothing and equipment list, and a list of things for a trail lunch.
4. Take five hikesof 10 continuous miles each, on 5 days.
5. Take a hike of 20 continuous miles in one day.
6. Within a month of the last hike and after taking
all six hikes, make a short report of each of the six hikes. Give dates,
route covered, weather, and any interesting things you saw.
2. From memory, describe the priority for survival in a backcountry or wilderness location.
3. Describe ways to:
(a) avoid panic
(b) maintain a high level of morale when lost
4. Tell what you would do to survive in the following environments:
(a) Cold and snowy
(b) Wet (forest)
(c) Hot and dry (desert)
(d) Windy (mountains or plains)
(e) Water (ocean or lake)
5. Make up a small survival kit and be able to explain how each item in it is useful.
6. Show that you can start fires using three methods other than matches.
7. Do the following:
(a) Tell five different ways of attracting attention
when lost.
(b) Show how to use a signal mirror to attract attention
when lost.
(c) From memory, describe five international ground-to-air
signals and tell what they mean
8. Show that you can find and improvise a natural shelter minimizing the damage to the environment.
9. Spend a night in your shelter.
10. Explain how to protect yourself against insects, reptiles, rodents, and bears.
11. Show three ways to purify water.
12. Show that you know the proper clothing to be worn in your area on an overnight in extremely hot weather and extremely cold weather.
13. Explain why it usually is not wise to eat edible wild plants or
wildlife in a wilderness survival situation.
2. Cover the wilderness trail or canoe or boat tout of not less than 50 consecutive miles; take a minimum of 5 consecutive days to complete the trip without the aid of motors. (In some areas pack animals may be used.)
3. During the time on the trail or waterway, complete a minimum of 10 hours each of group work on projects to improve the trail, springs, campsite, portage, or wilderness area. If, after checking with recognized authorities, it is not possible to complete 10 hours each of group work on the trail, a similar project may be done in the unit's home area. (There should be no unauthorized cutting of brush or timber.)
4. Unit or tour leader must then file the 50-Miler Award application
with local council service center. This application gives additional
details about planning the trip.
2. Do ONE of the following:
(a) collect and identify wood samples of 10 species
of trees. List several ways each species of wood can be used.
(b) Find and examine several stumps or logs that
show variations in growth rate in their ring patterns. Prepare a
field notebook describing their location and discuss possible reasons for
the variations.
3. Be able to do the following:
(a) Describe contributions forests make to
- Our economy in the form
of products
- Our social well-being
- Soil protection and increased
fertility
- Clean air
- Wildlife
- Recreation
(b) Tell which watershed or other source your community
relies on for its water supply.
4. Be able to describe what forest management means, including:
(a) Multiple-use management
(b) Even-aged and uneven-aged management and the
silvicultural systems associated with each type
(c) Intermediate cuttings
(d) How prescribed burning and related forest management
practices are used
5. Do ONE of the following:
(a) Visit a managed public or private forest area
with its manager or someone familiar with it. Write a brief report
describing:
- The type of forest
- The management objectives
- The forestry techniques
used to achieve the objectives
(b) Take a trip to a logging operation or wood-using
industrial plant and write a brief report describing:
- The species of and size
of trees being harvested or used
- Where the trees are going
to or coming from
- What products are made
from the trees or at the plant
- How the products are made
- How the products are used
- How waste materials from
the logging operation or plant are disposed of or utilized
6. Be able to do the following:
(a) Describe the damages to forest that result from:
- Wildfire
- Insects
- Tree disease
- Overgrazing
- Improper harvest
(b) Tell what can be done to reduce these damages.
(c) Tell what you should do if you discover a forest
fire and how to control it.
7. Do ONE of the following:
(a) Assist in carrying out a project that meets
one or more of these objectives: timber stand improvement, watershed improvement,
wildlife habitat improvement, recreation area improvement, or range improvement.
(b) Take part in a forest
fire prevention campaign in cooperation with your local fire warden, forester
or counselor.
(c) Visit with one or more local foresters and write
a brief report including education, qualification, career opportunities,
and objective relating to forestry.
2. Name five dangerous weather-related conditions. Give the safety rules for each when outdoors and explain the difference between a severe weather watch and warning. Discuss the safety rules with your family.
3. Draw cross sections of a cold front and a warm front showing the location and movements of the cold and warm air, the frontal slope, the location and types of clouds associated with the front, and the location of rain. Tell the differences between a cold front and a warm front.
4. Tell what causes wind, why it rains, and how lightning and hail are formed. Explain the difference between high and low pressure systems in the atmosphere and tell which is related to good and poor weather.
5. Identify and describe clouds in the low, middle, and upper levels of the atmosphere. Relate these to specific types of weather.
6. Draw a diagram of the water cycle and label its major processes. Explain the water cycle to your counselor.
7. Define acid rain. Identify which human activities pollute the atmosphere as well as the effects such pollution can have on people.
8. Do ONE of the following:
(a) Make one of the following
instruments: wind vane, anemometer, rain gauge, hygrometer. Keep
a daily log for 1 week using information from this instrument as well as
from other sources such as local radio and televisions stations or NOAA
Weather Radio. The following information should be recorded at the
same time every day: wind direction and speed, temperature, precipitation,
and type of clouds. Be sure to make a note of any morning dew or
frost. In the log, also list the weather forecasts from radio or
television at the same time each day and show how the weather really turned
out.
(b) Visit a National Weather
Service office of talk with a local radio or television weathercaster,
private meteorologist, local agricultural Extension service officer,
or university meteorology instructor. Find out what type of weather
is most dangerous or damaging to your community. Determine how severe
weather and flood warnings reach the homes in your community.
9. Do ONE of the following:
(a) Give a talk of more than
5 minutes to your unit explaining the camping safety rules in the event
of lightning, flash floods, and tornadoes. Before your talk, show
your outline to your counselor for approval.
(b) Read several articles
about acid rain and give a prepared talk of more than 5 minutes to your
unit. Before your talk, show your outline to your counselor for approval.
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