Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Recreation/Camp Craft

1. Explain how and why weather, season, and water supply are considered when choosing a campsite. Explain what care to take with regard to safe water, sanitary facilities, and emergencies.
Safe Water

Sanitation

Emergency Readiness

Personal Items
In addition to the items of clothing listed in requirement 2, you will also need several items of personal gear.

6. Prepare balanced menus for one cooked breakfast, lunch, and supper.
Use the USDA's Food Pyramid for selecting foods. The chart here shows how much of each type of food Pathfinder-aged girls and boys should eat over the course of an entire day:

a. Prepare ground properly for comfortable sleeping.
If using a tent, this has to be done before it is pitched, otherwise you lose access to the ground. Carefully inspect the area for rocks, sticks, stumps, and anything lumpy. Pine needles may be spread beneath the sleeping area for added comfort, but this is not a requirement. A small pebble in your thigh feels larger and larger as the night progresses, so take care when clearing the area. If you are planning to sleep on an air mattress, you still must clear the ground. Air mattresses have been known to deflate during the night, and if that's what you were relying on, you're not going to get much sleep. Furthermore, sticks and stones have a nasty habit of poking holes in a tent floor, and that compromises the water-tightness of your quarters.

d. Show how to protect your camp against animals, insects, and wet or bad weather.
Tightly sealing your food will not only lock the aromas in, it will also keep rain, snow, and sleet out. More than one camping breakfast has been ruined because the weather got into the pancake mix and oatmeal.

9. Camp for a continuous three days and two nights, sleeping each night under the stars or in a tent. Be actively involved in cooking at least two of the meals.
A three-day campout often starts on Friday evening and ends Sunday at lunchtime. This adds up to six meals, so you will need to divide your campers into no more than three smaller groups. Each camper in your party should be assigned kitchen duty. It is easier to remember which meal a person is responsible if they are assigned the same meal every day - for instance, you might designate a breakfast group, and they will cook all breakfasts. However, if your group is attempting to earn several camping honors at once, you should look at the types of meals each person is required to cook (one-pot, boiling, frying, reflector oven, etc.) and vary the assignments based on that.

10. Considering the things learned in this honor and the camping done, what is the meaning and the reason of the Pathfinder Camping Code?

 * 1) I will camp only where camping is allowed.
 * 2) I will keep my campsite clean at all times, and I will leave it cleaner than when I found it.
 * 3) I will never leave my campfire unattended, and when I leave I will be sure that it is entirely out.
 * 4) I will never use my knife or ax to cut, mar or scar live trees.
 * 5) I will never pick wild flowers without permission.
 * 6) I will never cut trails while hiking.
 * 7) I will never pollute a lake or stream.
 * 8) I will always respect the privacy of other campers.
 * 9) I will always be polite and courteous.
 * 10) I will respect all signs, authority, rules and private property.
 * 11) I will always conduct myself as a Pathfinder and a Christian and as a child of God.
 * 12) I will always leave a campsite knowing that I am welcome to return.