Badge Requirements
1. Help your patrol, troop, or camp unit plan and go on two all-day hikes. Plan where to go, what to wear and take. Get necessary permissions.
2. Know how to walk and rest correctly, how to walk in a group on street, highway, or country road.
3. Use good outdoor manners: On the way. At hike site. On trails. Do an outdoor good turn on each hike.
4. Plan and carry your lunch for one hike and cook part of it yourself. On the other hike cook something for a group.
5. Help make and use: Fireplace. Woodpile. Fire.
6. Dress for expected weather and activities. Have rope, eating utensils, and bandana.
7. Learn one new campcraft skill: How to tie knots, handle a knife, use a compass, or lay and follow a trail.
8. Be able to teach a game to play on the way. Know a hiking song.
9. Help keep troop first aid kit ready to use. Know what to do if you cut or burn yourself.
10. Watch a sunset, look wide around a hilltop, or discover something interesting in nature. Find a poem or story about the out-of-doors or about the way it makes you feel to share with your patrol.
11. After each hike, talk over the hike and what you need to learn or practice before your next outing.