Camp Planning
· Choose even surfaces.
· Look for overhead dangers.
· Drainage.
· Bug-free sleep.
· Windy nights.
· Campsites and water. Be sure that your campsite is at least 100 feet from water.
· Practice leave-no-trace.
· Fire Laying..
1. Clean the fire site down to the bare soil; remove all of the burnable material for a radius of 4 yards (or 4 meters) around it. Save the ground cover so you may put it back when you are finished.
2. Keep a pot of water, or bucket of sand/soil close to the fire for emergency.
3. If the site for the fire is grassy, use your camp shovel to cut around and under a 1 yard (or 1 meter) wide square of sod. Lift out the loosened sod, lay it right side up and sprinkle it with water. The grass should stay fresh until you replace it after you have broken camp.
4. Do not build a circle of rocks around your fire. If you must enclose it, use logs.
· Cat Hole.
1. About six inches deep, which are dug and then covered over after use.
2. Cat-holes should be a minimum of 200 feet (or 70 meters) away from any water source.
· Post Duty Roster (cook, KP, water, and fire)
· Post Daily Planner (agenda for the campout)
· Post Menu Planner (daily menu)
· Setup Ax-Yard.
1. Rope off area.
2. Hold ax by head and move in a circle so you know nothing is around you to get in the way of a swinging ax.
3. Hold ax above you to make sure there are no low branches to caught ax while chopping.
4. If some one is in ax yard already, ask permission before you enter.
5. People must be 10 feet away before you can chop.