Additional Equipment – Camping
Health and safety
- Current health forms
- Emergency contact list
- Medication documentation
- Secure medication storage controlled according to troop policy
- Large first-aid kit
- Personal first-aid kits
- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent
- Tick-removal tool
- Disposable gloves
- CPR mask or face shield
- Instant cold packs
- Emergency blankets
- Hand sanitizer
- Soap and handwashing water
- Weather forecast
- Severe-weather plan
- Nearest hospital and urgent-care information
- Charged leader phones
- Portable battery packs
- Vehicle keys kept accessible
- Buddy-system assignments
- Fire-safety tools and water bucket
- Tools appropriate for the planned activities
- Safety glasses and work gloves when needed
Fire area
If fires are permitted:
- Fire permit, if required
- Water bucket
- Fire extinguisher
- Shovel
- Rake
- Firewood
- Kindling
- Approved fire starters
- Matches or lighters
- Fire gloves
- Campfire program materials
- Complete extinguishing plan
Never transport firewood when local rules prohibit it, and verify current fire restrictions before departure.
Program and activity equipment
This depends on the weekend’s objectives, but could include:
- Compass sets
- Local maps
- Orienteering markers
- Rope for knot practice
- Lashings and pioneering poles
- Fire-building materials
- First-aid practice supplies
- Advancement worksheets
- Nature-identification guides
- Field guides
- Binoculars
- Sports equipment
- Board or card games
- Campfire skits and song sheets
- Service-project tools
- Work gloves
- Fishing equipment and licenses, if applicable