Backpacking Merit Badge

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:
a. List 10 items that are essential to be carried on any 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 limits on the number of backpackers appropriate for a trek crew.

b. Describe how a trek crew should be organized.

c. Tell how you would minimize risk on a backpacking trek.

d. Explain the purpose of an emergency response plan.

4. Do the following:
a. Describe the importance of using Leave No Trace principles while backpacking, and at least five ways you can lessen the crew’s impact on the environment.

b. Describe proper methods of handling human and other wastes while on a backpacking trek. Describe the impor- tance of and means to assure personal cleanliness while on a backpacking trek.

c. Tell what factors are important in choosing a campsite.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Sc/out/ Master

    5. Do the following:
    a. Demonstrate two ways to treat water and tell why water treatment is essential.

    b. Explain to your counselor the importance of staying well- hydrated during a trek.

    6. Do the following:
    a. Demonstrate that you can read topographic maps.

    b. While on a trek, use a map and compass to establish your position on the ground at three different locations OR use a GPS receiver to establish your position on
    a topographic map and on the ground at three different locations.

    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:
    a. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of backpacking stoves using at least three different types of fuel.

    b. Demonstrate that you know how to operate a backpacking stove safely and to handle fuel safely.

    c. Prepare at least three meals using a stove and fuel you can carry in a backpack.

    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:
    a. Write a plan that includes a schedule for a patrol/crew backpacking hike of at least 2 miles.

    b. Conduct a prehike inspection of the patrol and its equipment.

    c. Show that you know how to properly pack your personal gear and your share of the crew’s gear and food.

    d. Show you can properly shoulder your pack and adjust it for proper wear.

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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/G3QIdYy.jpg

      10. Using Leave No Trace principles, 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:
      a. Write a plan for a backpacking trek of at least five days using at least three different campsites and covering at least 30 miles. Your plan must include a description of and route to the trek area, a schedule (including a daily schedule), a list of food and equipment needs, a safety and emergency plan, and a budget.

      b. Using Leave No Trace principles, take the trek you have planned and, while on the trek, complete at least one service project approved by your merit badge counselor.

      c. Keep a daily journal during the trek that includes a day- by-day description of your activities, including notes about what worked well and thoughts about improve- ments that could be made for the next trek.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/hiking/comments/ztmkkc/my_10_mile_161km_appalachian_trail_tactical_patch/

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        OP really swiped a patch from Reddit? That's a new low for this board.

        1. One thing i Leandro os that everything needs to be dry.
        2.
        a.
        >knife
        To open any type of box, can ir food package that you may eat and couldn't open with bare hands.
        >napkins
        To use It to clean all type of stuff including your mouth after eating.
        >pair of extra socks
        You need to protect your feet in any circunstances so If an emergency occurs you've It.
        >water bottle
        To hydrate yourself.
        >matches
        So you can light fire at any time.
        >aluminium cup
        So you can prepare yourself some hot tea you made in the stove.
        >aid items
        If anything you can deal with in that time to prevent or heal yourself that can be it. One of the most essential and important things to carry.
        >a "gun" to defend yourself
        It can be everything that fits it's word "gun": a machete, pistol, taser, pepper spray etc.
        >paracord
        You can use it to light fire if your place of choice to camping doesn't have wood.
        >compass
        At this point I think you should have anything that can bring you where you can leave that place if you get lost and you may find your track back if you know how to use it and mark as soon as you entered the terrain.
        b.
        >divide in multiple bags, I think three is good so you can travel with one in your back and one on each hand
        >travel with a car so you can store everything in it
        >travel with a motorcycle so you can leave everything in there
        >buy an item like a tent that folds in itself, that helps you not putting everything in your back and maybe put it in your chest attached to your front backpack strap
        >go out with more one friend so you can share the weight/leave something's in your friends home that live close at where you're camping
        >use minimal itens, see what is really necessary planning before you leave your house is a major fact to be stress relieved when you want to find something in your enormous backpack

        Speak English.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >patch from Reddit
          No, the pic in the OP is the BSA merit badge. There’s no official source as far as I know, but that’s what they look like

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >There’s no official source as far as I know
            You just order them from the BSA website

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Oh cool.

              >it’s from Reddit
              Oh, PrepHole!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That was another patch that got deleted out of embarrassment I'm guessing

  2. 1 year ago
    Sc/out/ Master

    10. Using Leave No Trace principles, 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:
    a. Write a plan for a backpacking trek of at least five days using at least three different campsites and covering at least 30 miles. Your plan must include a description of and route to the trek area, a schedule (including a daily schedule), a list of food and equipment needs, a safety and emergency plan, and a budget.

    b. Using Leave No Trace principles, take the trek you have planned and, while on the trek, complete at least one service project approved by your merit badge counselor.

    c. Keep a daily journal during the trek that includes a day- by-day description of your activities, including notes about what worked well and thoughts about improve- ments that could be made for the next trek.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'll leave a trace if I want to. Picking up rubbish is necessary but I'm not making it look like campfire wasn't there.
    My out, my rules

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >my out, my rules
      Boomer mentality. I bet you're one of those filthy degenerates who stacks rocks.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        no. I keep the mentality when I'm in my area.
        If I'm abroad then yes I'll make more of an effort, but why should I care if the next generation will be minority white?
        My out, my rules

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    1. One thing i Leandro os that everything needs to be dry.
    2.
    a.
    >knife
    To open any type of box, can ir food package that you may eat and couldn't open with bare hands.
    >napkins
    To use It to clean all type of stuff including your mouth after eating.
    >pair of extra socks
    You need to protect your feet in any circunstances so If an emergency occurs you've It.
    >water bottle
    To hydrate yourself.
    >matches
    So you can light fire at any time.
    >aluminium cup
    So you can prepare yourself some hot tea you made in the stove.
    >aid items
    If anything you can deal with in that time to prevent or heal yourself that can be it. One of the most essential and important things to carry.
    >a "gun" to defend yourself
    It can be everything that fits it's word "gun": a machete, pistol, taser, pepper spray etc.
    >paracord
    You can use it to light fire if your place of choice to camping doesn't have wood.
    >compass
    At this point I think you should have anything that can bring you where you can leave that place if you get lost and you may find your track back if you know how to use it and mark as soon as you entered the terrain.
    b.
    >divide in multiple bags, I think three is good so you can travel with one in your back and one on each hand
    >travel with a car so you can store everything in it
    >travel with a motorcycle so you can leave everything in there
    >buy an item like a tent that folds in itself, that helps you not putting everything in your back and maybe put it in your chest attached to your front backpack strap
    >go out with more one friend so you can share the weight/leave something's in your friends home that live close at where you're camping
    >use minimal itens, see what is really necessary planning before you leave your house is a major fact to be stress relieved when you want to find something in your enormous backpack

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Bro, that’s a reference to the Ten Essentials. You literally wouldn’t qualify for a Boy Scout backpacking merit badge due to your lack of understanding.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        1. One thing i Leandro os that everything needs to be dry.
        2.
        a.
        >knife
        To open any type of box, can ir food package that you may eat and couldn't open with bare hands.
        >napkins
        To use It to clean all type of stuff including your mouth after eating.
        >pair of extra socks
        You need to protect your feet in any circunstances so If an emergency occurs you've It.
        >water bottle
        To hydrate yourself.
        >matches
        So you can light fire at any time.
        >aluminium cup
        So you can prepare yourself some hot tea you made in the stove.
        >aid items
        If anything you can deal with in that time to prevent or heal yourself that can be it. One of the most essential and important things to carry.
        >a "gun" to defend yourself
        It can be everything that fits it's word "gun": a machete, pistol, taser, pepper spray etc.
        >paracord
        You can use it to light fire if your place of choice to camping doesn't have wood.
        >compass
        At this point I think you should have anything that can bring you where you can leave that place if you get lost and you may find your track back if you know how to use it and mark as soon as you entered the terrain.
        b.
        >divide in multiple bags, I think three is good so you can travel with one in your back and one on each hand
        >travel with a car so you can store everything in it
        >travel with a motorcycle so you can leave everything in there
        >buy an item like a tent that folds in itself, that helps you not putting everything in your back and maybe put it in your chest attached to your front backpack strap
        >go out with more one friend so you can share the weight/leave something's in your friends home that live close at where you're camping
        >use minimal itens, see what is really necessary planning before you leave your house is a major fact to be stress relieved when you want to find something in your enormous backpack

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Essentials

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >if you bring a coat, you should use it in your body and not putt it in your backpack
      >if the place is safe you could go one day before and leave some things there where you will go to avoid fatigue
      >construct a little place where you are going so you can maybe make this place your home while you stay there and can store things
      >burry some itens in the terrain and map it to easy acces
      3.
      a.
      It doesn't have limit but it's safe to keep at least the ones you can count in a hand so if some of you get lost you won't suffer morally/emocionally.
      b.
      They need to know each other moderately, everyone need to have a way of communicating at least with one member or a leader of the travel, they need to walk in a queue, they need to have basic needs asswell like water and food, they need to stop at some points to see if everyone is together, they should communicate at all times, they should report if anything is not ok and they should learn to obey the leader of the group.
      c.
      Everyone should at least have someone who they can trust in the group, they should ask everything 3 thngs before do it: will it be good for the group, will it be good for my next, am I breaking any rule?
      d. It's simple. Have one of this things with the leader: a map, someone who know the region, a flare gun, a cellphone so you can call anyone if there have signal, you can have a compass or a paracord attached to everyone's belt. First stay calm and find a road or a safe place that you can sleep so in the next day you can leave. If you feel that your friends are near you will scream out your lungs and when you find each other you need to leave that place quick to avoid any animals that are nearby.
      4.
      a. So you all stay mentally together as a group that are strong and exclude the possibility that you can be followed. Everyone will have each other's back.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >carry ziplocks to make it as a group garbage
        >avoid construct anything too big if you don't know where are you going
        >respect the nature, yourself and others
        >try to preserve the environment, fauna and flora not chasing any animal to eat everytime you're going there. Bring your own food
        >never leave until you pick everything you brought with yourself, if possible make a list and check before you get home so if you lose something you could call the local security or people around and make a contact bond to get what you lost
        b.
        >if you grab something like a tree wood you should use it until the end or you should return back to where you picked it up
        >carry bags on your belt so you can store your trash
        >use the trash cans from the terrain
        >if the trash you leave is big enough that you can't find a way to bring back with you you should use some universal sign that this is trash, a black plastic trash bag, and return tomorrow to pick it up and throw away the right way
        c.
        Avoid places you never have been to go alone, know the basics of the environment: is there life threatening situations? Will I feel safe? Am I prepared? It's important to have the right material too, if you're going where have bears you should go at least with a handsize hammer or someone of your group if you're with anyone need to have a gun to protect everyone.
        5.
        a. Clorin; you can make a filter: have a water bottle, make a hole in the end of the side of the bottle, put some cotton in the bottle, then put little stones inside of the bottle, then put dry dirt in the bottle of the bottle, then put some type of cloth to finish if the water you can get from a river or lake is safe to drink. You can attach a ziplock to the far end of a human body size tree and secure with rubber band and after some time will be water in the ziplock. You can put dirty water in a pot with lid and wait sometime, then you can lick the lid and this is the safe water to drink.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          b.
          It evicts a lot of probable injuries, you is more awake, you don't feel that something is missing and your focus deflect into another thing that catches your attention and because humans are made 70% at least of water.
          6. Ok, this map is about some place that have green vegetation because of the color and maybe is a hill because the red lines that separates each one of it's type is decreasing in size and sometimes get stronger and other time almost vanish, the numbers they are increasing in valhe as they get to the top of the hill too. Those black perpendicular lines are man-made roads because is the first thing to catch your eye mostly because people in the majority of the time only travel there with cars and bicycles. The names that appears in the map is for better identification of where you are and referencial point. The blue lines is some rivers, the traced lines indicates you need to get on by foot to move out there. The black and pink points indicates houses or where people stay often, or live.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            b. Pick related.
            c. It's simple, you need to be careful to not get the attention of someone or something undesirable on the situation. If an elicopter are on the air, you need to go to a place where don't have trees so you can be seen. If you have any flag you should hold it and wave for the helicopter, draw a HELP in the ground using sticks or stones or even make a fire if it's night in this case. If you have a cellphone with signal and internet you need to turn it on and activate the localization, try to send a message or make a call to someone so the authorities will internet your satellite sign and find you. If you can't be helped, you should let your instincts or the environment guide you to a road or somewhere safe, you'll be good.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              7. You need to leave your house with really comfy clothes because cold is more scary than a warm place in general. Stay aware of bears and bring as much foos as you can because you will get cold. Manage to blend in with the terrain with white clothes and protect all your extremities with gloves, a beanie and a good shoe to walk in snow. Bring a way to make a fire and eat everything hot, you'll need that extra heat. Don't stay longer periods in the coldplaces, prefer making any activity that will heat your body. Prefer energy drinks, tea and hot water to drink, you can pass without a bath but use wet wipes to clean yourself.
              8.
              a. This is a cool thing to explin
              >trees
              You could get wood from a tree where you will camp and cut with a hammer to make little sticks from that wood. Using a knife you will pick up the sticks and cut into thin burrs, this will halp you make fire. Then if you have alchohol now is the time to use it, use it in the burrs and put it on fire with the lighter, phosphor or flint. You can use that type where you pick somenthing thin as hair, put on a wood with a hole and with another wood stick you then rotate fast with two hand until it gets smoking, then it's time to protect that thing with you hands and blow slowly and cautiously as you add the sticks and then the wood pieces.
              >portable stove
              You can use gas in a container and is that simple, you open the valve, set it on fire with a lighter and then it's time to put an iron foil above it. Next you put your plate or pan up all this and wait.
              >MRE heating system
              In militar rations is that a pretty incredible package with a quimic powder in some type of sheet that breathes and you just add water in a pouch with this thing and the food in a plastic bag inside. Then you rattle and it's all, your food "heats itself".

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                b. In pic related you will spin this blue thing and then on the mouth of the stove light a fire with a phosphorus stick and it's ready to cook. To end the process you simply rotate the valve.
                c. Using the trees i cut i will make a piece of meat i brough with me from the local market. I will involve the meat with aluminum foil and then evolve in a dish cloth. Then i will find somewhere where the soil is dry and i will dig a hole, compact the dirt, then put the meat in there. Now i sill put a thin layer of dirt and then i will start my fire with a phosporus stick, is verywind here so i literally put my head in the hole to protect the fire so it doesn't extinguish, now the fire is ready and i slowly put more sticks of tree and then i find some rocks nearby, so i put those on the fire too as i add wood and let it heat. Now i will prepare a brazilian canned beans called "feijoada". With the portable stove i can easily start fire and equilibrate the can in it. Openned the can with litle holes made from my little knife and then proceed to open half the lid of the can, i now close it and wait. It pimple, then it gets a little colder and it's time to eat, just eat right there with a plastic fork. Now i will prepare with the mre heating system. I put water and the food in the plastic right on the bag and close it with my hands, leave it there a little and open the plastic with food using my little knife next to eat.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                d. I use a plastic fork so it can be used and clean with a napkin and then saved for another meal. The trash is the hard part. I won't get walking with a bag of trash, but maybe after eating i could found an garbage can and throw what i used right on it. I walk a little and find the garbage can to frop it right off. I get back and pray for god, for the food and for more one day alive. I repeat it three times as i was able to eat in the morning, afternoon and night.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                9.
                >we are in 5 people
                >i require that everyone is touching eatch ones shoulder while we walk
                >we use the map in here

                https://i.imgur.com/pQjAEiX.jpg

                b. Pick related.
                c. It's simple, you need to be careful to not get the attention of someone or something undesirable on the situation. If an elicopter are on the air, you need to go to a place where don't have trees so you can be seen. If you have any flag you should hold it and wave for the helicopter, draw a HELP in the ground using sticks or stones or even make a fire if it's night in this case. If you have a cellphone with signal and internet you need to turn it on and activate the localization, try to send a message or make a call to someone so the authorities will internet your satellite sign and find you. If you can't be helped, you should let your instincts or the environment guide you to a road or somewhere safe, you'll be good.
                >we leave AW1 position and proceed to walk to point AW2 crossing the street cautiously and sit on the ground where there's heef, to eat
                >after this meal we put everything on the trash can and i mark every spot since now that have a trash can, maybe we have one garbage can every 20 meters
                >we cross the street normally and walk to point BN
                >there we met a group of hikers and we decide to eat with them after we met
                >second meal is ready and everyone helping each other we decide to apreciate the great view of the fall, the orange colors, the static theme and the sun is rising
                >now we know each other a little and is time to get loose
                >we walk with the hkers to point CE and in the middle of the walk they say goodbye to us and we say to them
                >rapiddly i reach a bag of lollipop to them and we go on with our walk
                >yes, we are still with each ones hand on one another shoulder
                >as we can see the point CE from afar, we are able to meet some military from the country, they are greeting us and we reward them with and bag of bubble gum
                >they thank all of our group
                >now we cross the bridge and chat a little then in the middle of the bridge we sing a song that i can't remember but everyone know how to sing

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >we find our place near the woods and stop by there and spend some time
                >i go to each one of us and ask if they're doing great and that we can prepare our third and last food
                >now we make jokes on one another, tell some fantasmagoric histories and we give our hands and say everything we are feeling, one say that he's suicidal, other say that he's dealing with not having somenthing, a woman say that she is so happy about somenthing, an elderly say that he's not feeling very well and the other one is a kid who is a girl and she say that she want to be and adult
                >we let the heartbeat drop, eat a bag of candies and now that we are full we have like 3 hours free to do anything
                >i pray to god asking for forgiveness
                >now we find an public bathroom and someone will be leaving one by one to use it, the leader first standup and everyone is grabbin on each others shoulder
                >we get to the bathroom using the sinalization marks so we can cross the road within
                >the kid is safe
                >the elderly is ok
                >everyone is young
                >we use the bathroom and go to the side of the bathroom where there is a little store and we buy some things
                >we take a picture together
                >now we are walking back to point AW2
                >we stop in the middle of the bridge and each one make a wish for the world
                >we grab each one shoulder and walk
                >we are feeling it
                >we get the public bus
                >each one go back home
                >everyone is in peace and a little more human

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/G3QIdYy.jpg

                10. Using Leave No Trace principles, 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:
                a. Write a plan for a backpacking trek of at least five days using at least three different campsites and covering at least 30 miles. Your plan must include a description of and route to the trek area, a schedule (including a daily schedule), a list of food and equipment needs, a safety and emergency plan, and a budget.

                b. Using Leave No Trace principles, take the trek you have planned and, while on the trek, complete at least one service project approved by your merit badge counselor.

                c. Keep a daily journal during the trek that includes a day- by-day description of your activities, including notes about what worked well and thoughts about improve- ments that could be made for the next trek.

                I maybe do this, but i'm too tired to do it like right now. I will printscreen this post and maybe do it. Thanks for the PrepHoleism.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Here after the six I forgot to write but it's the "a." question.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I’m not sure if the Anon answering is trolling or not, but he’s been consistently wrong with most of his answers.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Goddamn. Trying to understand this thread is like tripping hard in a foreign country.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Scouts are for homosexuals. Literally just go outside, you don’t any gay merit badges or shit

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s for kids you mong. They can’t exactly drive themselves to the trailhead.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I've been to driving to trailheads since I was 14, mostly just an hour to the lakes but doesn't mean 16 scouts can't

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          *16 year old

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Boy scouts begins in middle school (11-12 year olds). Most 16 year olds are Life Scouts or Eagle Scouts, in other words at the end of their scouting journey.
            >t. was a Life Scout who dropped out at 16 because I got into other things (girls, partying, weed, driving, etc.)

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