Some great hiking tips found in the Tiger Den Leader Guide Book - Tigers In The Wild

A trip plan informs others where you plan to go, when you will return, who is going, why you are going, and what you are taking.

When it comes to a topographic map, there are multiple colors that mean different things.

What is the buddy system and why should we do it?

Make your own dehydrated eggs for your next camping or backpacking trip

Scout hiking is done along bypaths and cross-country… not on highways. But occasionally, you may have to follow a main road for a short distance before you reach a place where a trail leads off to adventure.

With Earth Day being this week, page 368 of the 10th edition (1990) of the Boy Scout Handbook give us some awesome advise and ideas on how to take responsibility for the Earth.

Who wants to eat bland food in the woods… not me! Take your spices and seasonings with you on your next backpacking trip.

In preparation for our troop's summer scout camp up in the High Uintas, we have been teaching the scouts to be bear aware and bear smart.  Bears can smell your food from 2-3 miles away. 

This is an extremely easy backpacking meal to put together and dehydrate yourself in preparations of your next backpacking trip.

One of my applesolute foods to eat while backpacking is apple leather.  For the most part, making these roll-ups of dehydrated fruit is extremely easy.  

There are many options for store bought backpacking meals.  The issue that I have found with these meals are that they are usually overpriced, and they usually don't taste very good.  One option is to dehydrate your own food to take backpacking...

The past couple of weeks we have been working with the scouts on their backpacking skills.  Requirement 2a of the Backpacking Merit badge reads;