Camping with Cub Scouts

What should I bring?

When Cub Pack 24 goes camping we have three different lists of what to pack:

1. Pack Provisions. Aka what the pack will provide. This is usually food like hamburgers, hotdogs, and donuts/pancakes. If you have special dietary needs, let the leaders know, or just bring your own food! More details below.

2. Personal Provisions. This is a list of items you will need for you and your cub scouts. See below for a good start.

3. Community Property. A list of items to be brought by the parents and shared by everyone. This is listed in a signup genius you will receive by email and will change from season to season.

NOTE: Some of this will need to be modified for COVID, we are updating these lists as we figure it out...

Schedule

• We usually arrive before sunset so that we can see well enough to set up our tents.

• After the kids help parents setup their tents, we organize some team games in the large field that's next to us.

• The cubmaster will go over a few rules for a fun and safe camping experience

• Then we go for a hike (1-2 miles)

• Scouts forage for kindling and tinder to get the fire started.

• We prepare dinner and play games.

  • While this is going on we might do some campfire sketches. Usually broken down by age, each den or group picks a skit to perform or jokes to tell.

  • If we have a telescope we can do some star gazing (sunset around this time of year is 6:45pm).

• After dinner and smores, people who are not staying over usually leave around now.

• The rest of us play more games and then go to bed.

• After a restful night, we get up in the morning and have breakfast!

• We go on another hike, and then pack up and leave in the late morning.

• We make sure to leave the area better than when we found it!

More details are at the Scouting webpage, see "Pack Overnighters."