AY Honors/Camp Craft/Answer Key
1. Explain how and why weather, season, and water supply are considered when choosing a campsite. Explain what care to take with regard to safe water, sanitary facilities, and emergencies.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Choosing a campsite
Safe Water
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Safe water
Sanitation
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Sanitation
Emergency Readiness
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Emergencies
2. Prepare a list of clothing you would need for an overnight camp in warm and cold weather.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Clothing
3. Know and practice the safety rules in camping.
Fire Safety
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Fire/Fire safety
Knife and Axe Safety
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Knife and axe safety
Poisonous Plants
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Poisonous Plants
4. Show your ability to use a camp knife by demonstrating or explaining safety rules for its use and making shavings for tinder.
5. Prepare for an overnight camp with a group by making a list of personal items and group items that will be needed.
Personal Items
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Clothing
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Personal gear
Group Gear
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Group gear
Use the USDA's Food Pyramid for selecting foods. The chart here shows how much of each type of food Pathfinder-aged girls and boys should eat over the course of an entire day:
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Balanced menu
7. Complete the following while on an overnight camping trip:
a. Prepare ground properly for comfortable sleeping.
If using one, this has to be done before your tent is pitched, otherwise you lose access to the ground. Carefully inspect the area for rocks, sticks, stumps, and anything lumpy. Pine needles may be spread beneath the sleeping area for added comfort, but this is not a requirement. A small pebble in your thigh feels larger and larger as the night progresses, so take care when clearing the area. If you are planning to sleep on an air mattress, you still must clear the ground. Air mattresses have been known to deflate during the night, and if that's what you were relying on, you're not going to get much sleep. Furthermore, sticks and stones have a nasty habit of poking holes in a tent floor, and that compromises the water-tightness of your quarters.
b. Correctly pitch and strike a tent.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Pitch and strike a tent
c. Prepare a proper safe area for a campfire. Show proper use of wood tools in getting and preparing fuel for a fire.
Campfire
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Fire/Fire ring
Gathering Firewood
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Gathering firewood
Cutting Firewood
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Cutting firewood
Splitting Firewood
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Splitting firewood
d. Show how to protect your camp against animals, insects, and wet or bad weather.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Food storage
Tightly sealing your food will not only lock the aromas in, it will also keep rain, snow, and sleet out. More than one camping breakfast has been ruined because the weather got into the pancake mix and oatmeal.
e. Show how to take proper care of the environment as you camp and leave the area with no trace of having been there.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Take pictures leave footprints
8. Know eight things to do when lost.
Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Camping/Lost
9. Camp for a continuous three days and two nights, sleeping each night under the stars or in a tent. Be actively involved in cooking at least two of the meals.
A three-day campout often starts on Friday evening and ends Sunday at lunchtime. This adds up to six meals, so you will need to divide your campers into no more than three smaller groups. Each camper in your party should be assigned kitchen duty. It is easier to remember which meal a person is responsible if they are assigned the same meal every day - for instance, you might designate a breakfast group, and they will cook all breakfasts. However, if your group is attempting to earn several camping honors at once, you should look at the types of meals each person is required to cook (one-pot, boiling, frying, reflector oven, etc) and vary the assignments based on that.
