Activity Plan:
October 22nd (Saturday), meet at St. Bernadette Catholic Church at 5:45am to depart at 6:00am
- Arrive at campsite by 8:30am (please do not plan to stop in Camp Verde)
- Pack shakedown
- Patrol 1st Aid Challenge
- Scouts (organized by Patrol) then use rest of day choose a campsite to practice/demonstrate their survival and outdoor skills: Shelter Building, Food Gathering, Signaling and Fire Building
October 23rd (Sunday), wake up early
- Adult Score Keepers meet with Patrols and “Score” the results of activities
- Scouts practice Leave No Trace Principles and tear down and disassemble shelters and disperse any fire pits created.
- Troop meeting to share stories and interesting events
- Announcement of Patrol Score Cards
- Pack up and return to Trailhead and return to St. Bernadette Catholic Church (expected arrival at 12:00pm)
EQUIPMENT TO BRING: The Scouts should use this Outing to update and prepare a quality Daypack with the Scout 10 Essentials (refer to the Scout Handbook) and other items that are useful. Be mindful that you do not want your pack to be too heavy as to hinder your activities and hiking ability. In addition, Scouts should bring a sleeping bag with them (they do not need to use it during the survival activity, but in case they “tap out”)
- Personal gear list:
- daypack/backpack
- reasonable sack lunch
- 10 essentials
- sleeping bag
- rain gear / warm jacket
- (optional) emergency blanket
- Patrol gear list:
- 1 tarp
- rope / paracord
- @ least 1 First Aid Kit
- (optional) water filter
- (optional) handbook (as a resource)
COMPETITION SCORING: The Patrols will be scored on the following items:
- Shelter Built and utilized
- Rationing, use and procurement of nutrition (food)
- Responsible construction and maintenance of fire
- First Aid
- Signaling rescuers
- Percentage of Scouts that “survived” (did not “tap out”)
- Use of resources and having/utilizing a true daypack (one they will carry again in the future)
- Patrol Operations, how their patrol worked as a team and leadership skills demonstrated
SCENARIO: Your patrol is on a day hike. Everyone in the patrol has with them the appropriate clothing for the hike, the 10 essentials and a sack lunch. One member of your patrol brought a tarp with them so that the patrol could eat lunch under cover in the event of rain. On the hike, one member of your patrol gets injured and cannot complete the hike. Luckily, you met some hunters who gave you a few supplies and agreed to call for help when they got back to their truck. But, help won’t come till morning, so your patrol is going to have to spend the night.
Your patrol will need to attend to your injured patrol member, build a shelter, make dinner and figure out how to signal to rescuers so that they are able to find the patrol in the morning.
A good Scout would have a map of the area they are hiking so they would be able to locate a suitable spot to take shelter, which in the interest of time, we have determined to be:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4875418,-111.4457864,15.18z/data=!5m1!1e4
This location is at ~7000 feet and is There is plenty of dead wood available for fire and shelter building. There is no flowing water, so additional water will be provided.
RULES AND MISCELLANEOUS:
- Adults will set up an Adult Camp, that will monitor the Scouts from a distance. Any Scout that wants to “tap out” of the survival game can come to the Adult Camp and stay the night in a tent with other Scouts, use the Adult campfire and be provided with food and water.
- Each Patrol will be issued a whistle, periodically the Adults will signal with “1 blast” and each Patrol should respond “1 blast” indicating that all is okay. If at any time a Patrol has an emergency, they should do “3 blasts” on the whistle (SOS whistle signal) and the Adults will respond quickly.
- The Patrols can build small fires, if they a have a Scout that has their BSA Fireman Chit, if needed the Troop can/will provide training for the Fireman Chit prior to the outing (Scouts let your Patrol Leader know).
- For the safety of the Scouts, they are to stay within the designated area – details will be given to Patrol Leaders upon arrival.
- Scouts should study their Plant Identifications and be prepared to identify Poison Ivy and Poison Oak so they can avoid it.
- Scouts’ Daypacks should have sufficient nutrition to last 24 hours. It should be items typical to a daypack, for example beef jerky, granola bars, protein bars, etc. These items are not heavy have a extended shelf life and are easily transported. Scouts need to be mindful of other Scouts that may have food allergies as not to share to contaminate shared food resources, if any.
- The purpose of this activity is to educate the Scouts on what is a sufficient daypack, how to purify water, prepare/maintain a small fire and overall how to be resourceful in the outdoors to survive for 1 night or more (if ever needed).
- Driving directions from the Church: Google Map Directions
