Backpacking
Tenting
Sleeping Bag
Cooking
Potpourri
100
The two major types of backpacks.
What is internal frame and external frame?
100
This protects the floor of your tent from moisture.
What is a ground cloth?
100
The reason you need a ground pad under your sleeping bag.
What is the place you lose most of your heart while sleeping?
100
The lightest kind of food.
What is dehydrated food?
100
Great fabric when dry, dangerous when wet.
What is cotton?
200
Where the heavy stuff goes.
What is in the middle and near your back?
200
A good place to pitch a tent.
What is flat ground without a lot of twigs or vegetation and that is not a low spot?
200
The two major styles of sleeping bag.
What are mummy bags and rectangular bags?
200
Not storing your food properly can cause this.
What is food poisoning?
200
Three ways to light a fire.
What is matches, flint and steel, battery and steel wool, friction, and lensing (magnifying glass, etc.)? (Rekindle is a great way to restart a fire.)
300
This shifts the weight from your shoulders to your hips.
What is a hip belt?
300
The part of the tent that keeps rain out.
What is the rain fly?
300
Change your socks when you go to bed (why?).
What do you do because your socks are all sweaty at the end of the day and evaporation will make your feet cold?
300
The three-pot cleanup method.
What is a hot wash pot, a hot rinse pot, and a cool sanitize pot?
300
Ways to get un-lost.
Follow the water downstream, follow the direction the fork points in a trail or road, go downhill.
400
Ways to keep your backpack light.
What is:
Get a light backpack,
Share items, and
Bring dehydrated food and purify water?
400
The knot used to tighten your tent lines.
What is a Taut-line Hitch? (Taut means tight.)
400
Don't put your sleeping bag over your mouth (why?).
How should you prevent condensation from accumulating around your nose and mouth and making your sleeping bag wet?
400
The category of food that contains the most energy.
What are fats? (Fats have 9 calories per gram, carbohydrates and proteins have 4.)
400
The city (and battle) that made Baden-Powell famous.
Where is Mafeking?
500
The maximum backpack weight.
What is 25% to 30% of your body weight. (Many backpacking sites suggest no more than 20%.)
500
Features to look for in a tent.
Freestanding, gear pockets and hooks, vestibules, lightweight, easy to pitch.
500
The way you are supposed to dress to meet your sleeping bag's temperature rating.
What is wear a hat and long underwear? (and use a sleeping pad)
500
This kind of egg doesn't need refrigeration.
What is an unwashed egg with the "bloom" still on it?
500
He is nicknamed "The king of scouts."
Who is Frederick Burnham? 