Scouting FAQ
This is the first rank a new scout earns.
What is Scout rank.
Show your counselor that you are able to identify each of the following types of this item: plaited, coiled, ribbed, and wicker. Just don't put all your eggs in one.
What is the Basketry Merit Badge?
Use this knot to shorten a rope without cutting it.
What is a Sheep-shank?
Has sand dunes and timber slugs.
What is Camp Baker.
For the Rank of First Class Scout Req 2b states: "Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch. "
What is Not 2b?
This is the leader of the troop in this youth lead organization.
What is the Senior Patrol Leader.
List several reasons why you are important to your family and discuss this with your parents or guardians and with your merit badge counselor.
What is Family Life Merit Badge?
Use this to tie together two ropes - especially if they are different thicknesses.
What is a Sheetbend
This camp has a long pier out into the Hood Canal.
What is Camp Parsons.
For the Rank of Tenderfoot, Req 2b states: "While on a campout, demonstrate an appropriate method of safely cleaning items used to prepare, serve, and eat a meal."
What is 2b?
What is the left pocket.
Demonstrate how to match a the rod, line and leader to achieve a balanced system.
What is the Fly Fishing Merit Badge?
Hanging from the bottom of the scroll on the Second Class Scout rank badge and First Class Scout rank badge is a knot. It is there to remind a Scout to do something.
What is "do a Good Turn Daily?"
This camp has a stuffed bear on their dining hall porch.
What is Camp Mekwalla.
For the Rank of Scout, Req 2b states: "Describe the four steps of Scout advancement. "
What is 2b?
It is abbreviated NYLT.
What is National Youth Leadership Training.
Complete an electrical home safety inspection of your home, using the checklist found in this pamphlet or one approved by your counselor. Discuss what you find with your counselor.
What is Electricity Merit Badge?
In fly fishing, it's the knot used to tie the leader to the tippet. You don't have to go to medical school to learn it.
What is a surgeon's knot.
This camp has outbound adventures to climb the Middle Sister or descend into an ancient lava tube.
What is Camp Melakwa.
For the Rank of Second Class Scout, Req 2b states: "Explain when it is appropriate to use a fire for cooking or other purposes and when it would not be appropriate to do so."
What is Not 2b?
In a compromise gesture to those who wanted to create a rank beyond Eagle, these were introduced in 1927 as awards recognizing earning merit badges beyond the 21 required for Eagle Scout.
What are Eagle Palms.
Demonstrate the proper way to drive, set, and clinch a nail, draw a spike with a claw-hammer, and to join two pieces of wood with screws.
What is the Carpentry Merit Badge?
This knot is a fixed loop tied in the middle of a rope and is a favored knot for mountain/rock climbers, used for hand or foot loops or used to hook their carabiners into.
What is the butterfly knot?
This camp has a full replica of Lewis & Clark’s winter camp in 1805 – Fort Clatsop – Scouts can learn skills like blacksmithing and black-powder rifles.
What is Camp Meriwether.
DAILY DOUBLE: The three ranks that do not have a REQ 2b.
What are Star, Life and Eagle Scout?