The location of this cache is placed
near the Holliston Senior Center. An Eagle scout from Troop 73
Holliston organized a project to create a patio and flower garden
for the enjoyment of Holliston senior citizens.
In order to earn the Eagle Scout rank a scout
must:
-Earn 21 merit badges including the 15 in this series,
-Progress through all the previous ranks each of which has it's own
set of requirements.
-Serve a minimum of six months in a leadership position
-Plan, organize, and lead other scouts in an approved service
project which benefits the community.
-Pass an Eagle board of review.
CAMPING
Requirements:
- Show that you know first aid for and how to
prevent injuries or illnesses that could occur while camping,
including hypothermia, frostbite, heat reactions, dehydration,
altitude sickness, insect stings, tick bites, snakebite, blisters,
and hyperventilation.
- Learn the Leave No Trace principles and the Outdoor Code and explain what they mean. Write a
personal plan for implementing these principles on your next
outing..
- Make a written plan for an overnight trek and
show how to get to your camping spot using a topographical map and
compass OR a topographical map and a GPS receiver.
- Do the following:
- Make a duty roster showing how your patrol is organized for an actual overnight campout.
List assignments for each member.
- Help a Scout patrol or a Webelos Scout unit in your area prepare for an
actual campout, including creating the duty roster, menu planning,
equipment needs, general planning, and setting up camp.
- Do the following:
- Prepare a list of clothing you would need for
overnight campouts in both warm and cold weather. Explain the term
"layering."
- Discuss footwear for different kinds of weather
and how the right footwear is important for protecting your
feet.
- Explain the proper care and storage of camping
equipment (clothing, footwear, bedding).
- List the outdoor essentials necessary for any
campout, and explain why each item is needed.
- Present yourself to your Scoutmaster with your
pack for inspection. Be correctly clothed and equipped for an
overnight campout.
- Do the following:
- Describe the features of four types of tents,
when and where they could be used, and how to care for tents.
Working with another Scout, pitch a tent.
- Discuss the importance of camp sanitation and
tell why water treatment is essential. Then demonstrate two ways to
treat water.
- Describe the factors to be considered in
deciding where to pitch your tent.
- Tell the difference between internal- and
external-frame packs. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
each.
- Discuss the types of sleeping bags and what kind
would be suitable for different conditions. Explain the proper care
of your sleeping bag and how to keep it dry. Make a comfortable
ground bed.
- Prepare for an overnight campout with your
patrol by doing the following:
- Make a checklist of personal and patrol gear
that will be needed.
- Pack your own gear and your share of the patrol
equipment and food for proper carrying. Show that your pack is
right for quickly getting what is needed first, and that it has
been assembled properly for comfort, weight, balance, size, and
neatness.
- Do the following:
- Explain the safety procedures for:
- Using a propane or butane/propane
stove
- Using a liquid fuel stove
- Proper storage of extra fuel
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
different types of lightweight cooking stoves.
- Prepare a camp menu. Explain how the menu would
differ from a menu for a backpacking or float trip. Give recipes
and make a food list for your patrol. Plan two breakfasts, three
lunches, and two suppers. Discuss how to protect your food against
bad weather, animals, and contamination.
- 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.
- Show experience in camping by doing the
following:
- Camp a total of at least 20 days and 20 nights.
Sleep each night under the sky or in a tent you have pitched. The
20 days and 20 nights must be at a designated Scouting activity or
event. You may use a week of long-term camp toward this
requirement. If the camp provides a tent that has already been
pitched, you need not pitch your own tent.
- On any of these camping experiences, you must do
TWO of the following, only with proper preparation and under
qualified supervision:
-
Hike up a mountain, gaining at least 1,000
vertical feet.
- Backpack, snowshoe, or cross-country ski for at
least 4 miles.
- Take a bike trip of at least 15 miles or at
least four hours.
- Take a nonmotorized trip on the water of at
least four hours or 5 miles.
- Plan and carry out an overnight snow camping
experience.
- Rappel down a rappel route of 30 feet or
more.
- Perform a conservation project approved by the
landowner or land managing agency.
- Discuss how the things you did to earn this
badge have taught you about personal health and safety, survival,
public health, conservation, and good citizenship. In your
discussion, tell how Scout spirit and the
Scout Oath and Law apply to camping and outdoor
ethics.
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