Plan and Prepare
What should you do before a hike
What is Plan and prepare?
There are three answers. You should not bring these natural items home if you find them on an outing.
What are plants, rocks, and animals?
Both hikers and bikers should yield to this form of trail transportation. Hint: it is a lot bigger than you.
What are horses?
This is one thing that you should NOT leave where you found it.
What is litter?
There are two answers, provide both to get it right. You need to bring these items on a camping trip to find your way around.
What are a map and compass?
You should do this all the time at the campsite to keep it (especially your cooking area) clean.
What is cleaning up after yourselves?
You should do this when you find something cool instead of taking it with you?
What is taking a photograph?
This destroys vegetation and reduced biodiversity
What is going off trail?
We should research this rule of our campsites before we go to make sure that we can build a FIRE.
What is a fire ban?
This is something that can damage the floor of your tent if you set it up in the wrong place.
What is sharp vegetation?
This is what you should do if there is not trash can at your campsite.
What is packing out your trash?
There are multiple answers, Doing this on the trail and at camp detracts from others' experiences in the outdoors.
What is making excessive noise and littering?
What is a common type of map that shows elevation.
What is a topographic map?
This is a grassy clearing often found in forests that is highly sensitive to erosion.
What is a meadow?
This is what happens when a fire is built directly on the ground, not in a fire ring.
What is soil sterilization?
Do this when you find what might be a new archaeological site. Hint: you'll probably want to tell someone.
What is contacting local land managers?
This is the kind of wood you should collect if you don't have your own firewood.
What is dead and downed wood?