Camp La-No-Che Personal Checklist
Posted by Scoutmaster on June 16, 2010 at 11:10 am
Scouts, I have compiled a list of items you will want to bring to camp with you. There is a ton of information about camp in the Leader’s Guide as well.
Do not forget your medical form. This can be found on pages 62-64 in the Leader’s Guide or through the links on our website.
We must discuss whether or not we want to go on Big Stump, which will involve bringing throw-away clothes. We will also be discussing other troop-time activities at the next meeting. Do you want to have any input? Good. Be there.
Don’t forget to pack:
• Prescription medicine (Which is to be turned in to the medical facility downtown.
• Enough clothes for a week at camp, including plenty of socks. We do a lot of walking and blisters are common. Closed-toed shoes are to be worn at all times, and a spare pair of shoes is important. Wet shoes or socks are no fun. I like to bring water shoes, too.
• Hats keep off sun and bugs.
• Do you have a favorite walking stick?
• Field (“Class A”) uniform. A Scout should travel in field uniform, wear it to dinner each night, and have his troop photograph taken in it. You should have troop t-shirts as well.
• Swim suit and towels
• Long pants and a long-sleeved button up shirt for boys taking any of the aquatics merit badges.
• Toilet articles: soap, washcloth, towel, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, deodorant, etc. The showers are private, not gang showers like they were back in the good old days. There is no reason not to smell good every night.
• Personal first-aid kits are nice to have.
• Raincoat or poncho
• The type of powder you put on personal areas to prevent rashes, such as Gold Bond.
• Flashlight
• Insect repellent. The bugs are bad at La-No-Che. Oh, and insect repellent, because the bugs are bad. Also insect repellent. No, you cannot borrow mine. And insect repellent, too. Don’t forget insect repellent, either. You might want bug spray, too.
• Sunscreen
• Pocket knife and Totin’ Chip card.
• Compass
• Sleeping bag or sheet and blanket. You will sleep on cots in canvas tents. You could bring a mosquito net also, if you want to.
• Scout handbook, merit badge books, paper, and pens
• Canteen, bottle, or Camelbak. Water is your friend.
• Spending money (No large amounts of cash)
• Optionally, a locking trunk will keep stuff safe. We will have the trailer, but you will not have access to it whenever you want to get to stuff.
Please don’t send unnecessary items to camp that might get broken, lost, or stolen.
Label everything.
Do not bring electronic devices.
If you bring electronic devices even though I said not to, and they are distracting you or others from the task at hand, I will impound them.
Do not bring electronic devices. You’ll cry if they get wet, dropped, or stolen, but I will not shed even one tear, nor waste a single minute trying to make you feel better.
Do not bring electronic devices. Listening to an iPod while going to sleep is not going to get me mad, but walking around with one stuffed in your ear while we are doing scout stuff will.
Do not bring electronic devices. If you bring a cell phone to talk to your parents at night in your tent, I will probably not notice, but you might get really homesick and cry and mope. Camp can be hard on a kid in this regard, especially for first-timers. Don’t torture yourself. If you call your parents and tell them that there are air-raid sirens going off and the enemy is going to nuke the camp at any moment, and that they should panic and run right to camp to pick you up, I will be furious with you. (Parents, if you get such a call, please call ME before you panic.) Yes, this has happened to other scoutmasters before and they do not permit cellphones at all because of it. Don’t blow it for yourself and the rest of the troop. I personally have been the victim of a scout being taken by his parent from La-No-Che without telling me, and the camp was locked down until after midnight while we contacted various officials, non-custodial parents, and grandparents trying to find the kid. I was not amused.
Do not bring electronic devices. There may or may not be a place to charge anything.
Do not bring electronic devices. If you bring a device that is solely intended to play games, such as a PSP, Gameboy, or whatever, chances are good that I will impound it. We are going to camp to do camp things, not couch-potato things.
Do not bring electronic devices. If I get mad enough, in the future we will ban all electronic devices, complete with gear checking before departure. It happens in many other troops. Can I trust you to be responsible?
Do not bring electronic devices.
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So far I’ve got my Ipod, Wii, PSP, Playstation, a flat screen TV, and xbox packed. I was wondering if I could barrow your bug spray and sunscreen for the trip.
NO!