Backpacking
The item that is most commonly packed first at the bottom of the bag.
What is Your Sleeping Bag
A common instrument for telling the cardinal directions
What is a Compass
The name of the most common water bourn illness encountered in the backcountry.
What is Giardia
Dizziness, loss of consciousness, vomiting, fatigue, and disorientation following head trauma.
What are signs of a concussion.
LNT Rule 1
The name for top compartment of the backpack that clips over the main body.
What is The Brain
The name for the area of a map that tells you what symbols mean and the scale of the map.
What is A Map Key
The name of a the device used to send an SOS signal for an evacuation in the backcountry.
What is a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) or Satellite Phone.
A helicopter evacuation should only be used when there is a risk of ___ or ___.
What is Life or Limb
LNT Rule 2
What is Travelling and Camping on Durable Surfaces
A common name for a packing method involving stuffing clothing and malleable items between bigger, solid ones.
What is The Water and Stones or Bricks and Mortar Method
What one topographic line represents on a map.
What is an Elevation
What are three examples of ways to purify water in the backcountry.
What are Filtering, Chemical purification, UV Light, Boiling
Common ways to prevent blisters
What is tightening/loosening boots, moleskin, cooling off feet.
LNT Rule 3
What is Disposing of Waste Properly
This common backpack brand features a type of sea hawk as their main logo and name.
What is Osprey
The original military related meaning for an area on a map being green.
What is if there is enough coverage to hide a platoon of 40 men from arial view.
The name for a stack of rocks commonly created by and for hikers as a way of telling the right way to go.
What is a Cairn
The most common backcountry Injury
What is Burns
LNT Rules 4 and 5
What is Leaving what you find, and Reducing Campfire Impact
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) Runs up the West Coast from Mexico to Canada. The length of the Pacific Crest trail (Within 300 miles).
What is 2650 Miles Long
The meaning and use case of setting a bearing.
What is to set a degree off of north or south on a compass. Used in off trail navigation in order to stick to one direction, especially useful in dense forest.
Give a live demonstration of a lightning pose and say the main purpose of it.
What is to limit the effects of ground currents which cause a vast majority of lightning related deaths and injuries.
The Meaning and an example of when to use of R.I.C.E.
What is Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. Ex. Sprained ankle.
LNT Rules 6 and 7
What is Respecting Wildlife and Being Considerate of Other Visitors