Backpacking Skills

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Outdoor Skills, Backpacking, Cooking, Navigation, Cycling, and Wilderness Survival Skills. Troop Program Features let you make Backpacking Skills a part of your troop program.

Contents Backpacks Preparation Packing Reducing Weight Stoves Food Shouldering a Pack  Backpacking Gear

Resources

While the Boy Scout Handbook and Backpacking Merit Badge Pamphlet are your primary resources, the links below can help you learn Backpacking Skills. See the Disclaimers.

• Backpacking Merit badge
• Make Backpacking A Part of Your Troop Program.
• Philmont Scout Ranch
• Skills Instruction and Videos: First Aid Skills - Swimming - Outdoor Skills - Wilderness Survival - Backpacking - Cooking - Navigation - Campfires - Clothing - Cycling Skills

►  This symbol notes many other lesson videos.

• Related topics: First Aid Skills - Outdoor Skills - Leave No Trace - Navigation - Outdoor Code - Weather Skills - Clothing

Backpacks

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►  Videos: Internal vs. External Frame - Buying a Backpack - Long Trip Backpacks - Selecting a Backpack - Selecting a Pack Cover - Picking a Backpack - External Frame - Internal Frame - Picking a Backpack

• Internal Frame vs External Frame - Internal vs. External Frames - REI: Backpacks

Backpacking Preparation

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►  Videos: Backpacking - Planning - REI: Kitchen Checklist - REI: Backpacking for Beginners - How to Condition for a Backpacking Trip

• REI: Repair Kit -

Packing a Backpack

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►  Videos: How to Pack for One Night - Packing

• REI: Backpacks: How to Pack -

Reducing Weight

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• See Reducing Weight: Backpacks - Backpacking Stoves - Backpacking Food - Backpacking Gear - Water Purification - Clothing - Sleeping Bags - Pads - Tents and other Outdoor_Gear for details about reducing weight in each of those areas.
• REI: Ultralight Checklist - REI: Lightweight Hiking

Backpacking Stoves

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►  Videos: Backpacking Stove Options - Cooking Gear - REI: Stoves

Backpacking Food

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►  Videos: Backpacking Food - Food to Pack on your Short or Long Hiking Trip

Shouldering a Pack

Shortcut: Shouldering a Pack

►  Videos: How to Wear a Backpack - Wearing a Backpack - Adjusting a Heavy Backpack on Shoulders - Adjusting Backpack Hip Belts - Adjusting Backpack Shoulder Straps - How to Put on a Heavy Backpack

• REI Videos: Backpacks: Adjust the Fit - Backpacking: Find Torso/Hip Size - Backpacks: How to Hoist -

Backpacking Gear

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Also see Tent Types and Footwear.

►  Video: Video: Backpacking Gear - Clothing - Food - REI: Tents - Camp Shoes - Boots - Jackets - Pants - Shirts - Sleepwear - Synthetics - Underwear -

See also

• Backpacking Merit badge
• Make Backpacking a Part of Your Troop Program.
• Backpacking Merit Badge Pamphlet
• Skills Instruction and Videos: First Aid Skills - Swimming - Outdoor Skills - Wilderness Survival - Backpacking - Cooking - Navigation - Campfires - Clothing - Cycling Skills

• Leave No Trace
• Outdoor_Gear: Sleeping Bags - Pads - Tents
• Water Purification
• Weather Skills

Related awards

Outdoor Skills Awards

Outdoor-related awards Boy Scout ranks: Scout - Tenderfoot - Second Class - First Class Boy Scout awards: Firem'n Chit - Totin' Chip - Paul Bunyan Woodsman - National Outdoor Badges - National Medal for Outdoor Achievement Boy Scout Merit Badges: Archaeology - Archery - Astronomy - Athletics - Backpacking - Bird Study - Camping - Canoeing - Climbing - Cooking - Cycling - Environmental Science - Farm Mechanics - Fire Safety - Fish and Wildlife Management - Fishing - Fly Fishing - Forestry - Gardening - Geocaching - Geology - Golf - Hiking - Horsemanship - Insect Study - Kayaking - Mammal Study - Motorboating - Nature - Oceanography - Orienteering - Personal Fitness - Pioneering - Reptile and Amphibian Study - Rifle Shooting - Rowing - Scuba Diving - Search and Rescue - Shotgun Shooting - Signs, Signals, and Codes - Skating - Small-Boat Sailing - Snow Sports - Soil and Water Conservation - Space Exploration - Sports - Surveying - Swimming - Traffic Safety - Weather - Water Sports - Whitewater - Wilderness Survival Venturing: Wilderness Survival Ranger Core - Backpacking Ranger Award elective - National Outdoor Badges - National Medal for Outdoor Achievement Sea Scouts: National Outdoor Badges - National Medal for Outdoor Achievement

Disclaimers

Disclaimer: This information is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, or formal training. Please note that the only materials recommended by the Boy Scouts of America are those found or listed in official BSA materials such as the current Boy Scout Handbook. Backpacking Skills recommendations are constantly being revised. Neither MeritBadge.Org, nor its contributors make any recommendations. See the Guide to Safe Scouting.

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