Last Saturday I took a trip to Eastern Mountain Sports (ems.com) to pick up some new gear. While I was looking around a certain piece of gear caught my eye. This was the x-plate. The x-plate is collapsible plate that is made of a rigid hard plastic base and soft, squishy plastic sides. The x-plate [...]
Last weekend my council held our Gawasa winter camping training outdoor session at out council’s cub scout camp. Gawasa is our council’s okpik based winter camping training course that is open to youth and adults. The training is broken up into two sessions, an indoor session and an outdoor session. During the indoor session in [...]
This weeks merit badge is one of the most important subjects to have good knowledge about to succeed in the great outdoors. This is the Camping merit badge. This is an Eagle required badge. Here are the Requirements:
Show that you know first aid for and how to prevent injuries or illnesses that could occur while [...]