Onteora Scout
Reservation Prepared by William Donald |
| H1 - Hiking Methods | (includes care of feet, proper hiking methods, trail route descriptions; 45 min; entire troop) |
| H2 - "Hike-along" | (staff man hikes with troop on trail giving suggestions and help on proper hiking methods and packing.) |
| H3 - Trail briefing | (descriptions of trail; mandatory for junior leaders prior to hike if H1 was not taken by troop; 1/2 hour) |
| H4 - Packing Methods | (proper methods of backpacking, types of packs including demonstration of 2 types of emergency packs, hiking with a pack; 1 hour) |
| H5 - Morning packing help | (for inexperienced patrols/troops; a staff man comes into the site and gives the boys suggestions on how to pack and what to bring on the hike; for as long as you want) |
| S1 - Knife, ax and saws | (safe care, use and storage of each; 1 1/2 hours; for tenderfeet) |
| S2 - 2nd Class Map and Compass | (one hour; at shelter) |
| S3 - 1st Class Mapping | (1 1/2 hour; at shelter) |
| S4 - Lashings and troop pioneering projects | (square, diagonal,, sheer, and tripod lashings are shown, applications in projects demonstrated; dovetail notch; 1 1/2 hr.) |
| S5 - Cooking demo on dutch oven cooking | (1-10 hours; includes fire building) |
| S6 - Cooking demo on utensil-less cooking | (2 hours; includes fire building) |
| S7 - Cooking demo on breakfast meals | (1 1/2 hours; includes fire building) |
| S8 - Breakfast Preparation Help | (one staff man discusses ways of preparing various breakfast foods the night before the rneal; staff man comes at 7:00 AM to give helpful suggestions to patrol leader/cook on getting breakfast prepared) |
| Junior Leadership Training Help | (Rather than teaching the troop
members directly, we can train the junior leaders who can themselves instruct the troop.
We can also go into greater detail on the following topics:) JL1 Hiking JL2 Packing JL3 Trees and Shrubs JL4 Edible Plants - Nature MB JL5 Stars - Astronomy MB JL6 Knife and Axe JL7 Pathfinding and Mapping JL8 Council Fire planning JL9 Cooking and the patrol method |
| Suggested Other Activities | Beeline Hikes (for older
boys/patrols) (1) From Frick Pond (for advanced map & compass) (2) Within camp to "mysterious area" (Scouts are brought to a view area where they site on smoke on another mountain and beeline as patrols) Rope Hike (troop evening activity for fun) Lost person search |
| N1 - Trees and Shrubs | (10 trees/shrubs identified and described for 2nd class and tenderfeet; 45 min.) |
| N2 - Edible Wild Plants and Poisonous Plants | (After describing these plants; 2 plants will be selected and cooked in the water; have boiling water and a fire; 1 hour) |
| N3 - Tracking, stalking and animal signs | (includes games on tracking and stalking as well as identification of animal tracks and plaster casts of tracks made; for tenderfoot scouts only; 2 hours) |
| N4 - Cave Hike | (for fun; may be combined with N1, N2 or N3; 3 hours) |
| N5 - Stars | (8 constellations identified, for second class scouts only; 1/2 hour; help offered afterward to individuals) |
| N6 - Survival | (lost shelters, snares and traps, wilderness lore, dovetail notch; 45 minutes.) |
| 8/13/71 |