AY Honors/Recreation Master Award

The Recreation Master involves honors of outdoor activities that do not primarily involve competition, camping, or aquatics (though there are exceptions).

Earn seven of the following:

Honor	Patch	Category	Approval	Skill Level	Year
Backpacking		Recreation		2	1986
Caving		Recreation		2	1973
Drilling & Marching		Recreation		1	1976
Drumming & Percussion		Recreation		2	2006
Geocaching		Recreation		1	2005
Geological Geocaching		Recreation		2	2012
Gold Prospecting		Recreation		1	2008
Hiking		Recreation		1	1933
Horsemanship		Recreation		1	1961
Kites		Recreation		1	1986
Knot Tying		Recreation		2	1975
Letterboxing		Recreation		1	2008
Orienteering		Recreation		2	1956
Orienteering		Recreation		2
Outdoor Leadership		Recreation		3	1986
Physical Fitness		Recreation		2	1929
Rock Climbing		Recreation		2	1970
Skiing - Cross Country		Recreation		2	1986
Snowshoeing		Recreation		1	2010
Snowshoeing - Advanced		Recreation		3	2010
Unicycling		Recreation		2	2008

South Pacific Division Variation

Earn FIVE (5) from the following 'recreation-type' Honours:

• Cycling
• Drilling & Marching
• Hiking
• Horse Riding
• Kites
• Mountain Biking
• Physical Fitness
• Skateboarding

Plus TWO (2) honours from the Sportsman Master Honour group

• Archery
• Abseiling
• Baskbetball
• Cross Country Skiing
• Downhill Skiing
• Rock Climbing
• Soccer
• Triathlon
• Track and Field
• Tumbling & Balancing
• Volleyball

Doubling Up Rule

Some honours may be included in more than one Master Award. For example, the Shells Honour is part of the Naturalist Master and also the Zoology Master Award. The rationale is that a shell is part of nature and it is also an animal. If a Shell Honour has been used to earn a Naturalist Master Award, the same honour cannot be used to earn a Zoology Master Award. This 'Doubling Up' rule applies to all honours in such a situation.

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