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| &rArr | Req. 9 is an overnight outpost. |
| &rArr | This badge can be completed at camp with no prep work. |
Requirements
- Show that you know first aid for and how to prevent
injuries or illnesses likely to occur in backcountry
settings,
including hypothermia,
heat reactions, frostbite, dehydration,
blisters,
insect stings, tick bites,
and
snakebites.
- From
memory list the seven
priorities for survival in a backcountry or wilderness location.
Explain the importance of each one with your counselor.
- Describe ways to avoid panic and maintain a high
level of morale when lost, and explain why this is important.
- Describe the steps you would take to survive in the
following conditions:
- Cold and snowy
- Wet (forest)
- Hot and dry (desert)
- Windy (mountains or plains)
- Water (ocean, lake, or river)
- Put together
a personal survival kit and be able to explain how each item in it
could be useful.
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Using three different
methods (other than matches),
build and light three fires.
- Do the following:
- Show
five different ways
to attract attention when lost.
- Demonstrate
how to use a signal mirror.
- Describe from memory five
ground-to- air signals and tell what they mean.
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Improvise a natural shelter.
For the purpose of this demonstration, use techniques that have little
negative impact on
the environment. Spend a night in your shelter.
- Explain how to protect yourself from insects, reptiles,
and bears.
- Demonstrate three ways to treat water found in the
outdoors to prepare it for drinking.
- Show that you know the proper clothing to wear in
your area on an overnight in extremely hot weather and in extremely
cold weather.
- Explain why it usually is not wise to eat edible wild
plants or wildlife in a wilderness survival situation.
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