Knots
Used to join two ropes together.
What is a Square Knot?
What is the definition of a Square Knot?
The "most accurate" way to tell the weather around you. Often uses a rock.
What is a weather rock?
Alcohol wipes, tweezers, emergency blanket, bandages, gloves, gauze
What are some of the most common first aid items found in a first aid kit?
Composed of tinder, kindling, and a fuel.
What are the 3 parts of a fire?
Best and most efficient method is 50 feet from your campsite, to form the "triangle of safety", or high up in a tree.
How do you store food from animals while camping?
Right over left, left over right, makes a Square Knot nice and tight!
What is a Square Knot?
What is the Square Knot Rhyme?
The most common troop gadget we make.
What is a tri-pod?
The 3 most common poisonous plants found in nature.
What are Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Summac?
Teepee and Log Cabin
What are the 2 main fire structures we use?
C for "careful"
How do you hold a knife while cutting food?
Used to form loops that will NOT move.
What is a Bowline knot?
A true knot that is most often used to start/end different lashings. Resembles an X.
What is a Clove Hitch?
The proper way to deal with a broken leg that involves gauze/material, and 2 sticks of different sizes.
What is a leg splint?
Look where the sun is in the sky. Has it ben setting or rising? Use this method to determine your approximate direction.
How do you find cardinal directions using the sun?
Lightweight and charcoal. Used as a portable stove.
What are the different types of stoves?
Used to create adjustable loops.
What is a Taut-Line Hitch
Used for binding poles together and form 45-90 degree angles. Gets its name by the perfect angle it makes.
What is a Square Lashing?
DON'T PANIC!! Try to identify or kill the subject, mark the initial bite zone, call emergency services, mark the time and new swelling every 5 minutes until EMS arrives.
What is the proper way to deal with a snake bite?
Placed in a location that is not directly under a tree or dead tree limbs, not too hilly, not in a sinking location, not too out in the open incase it rains.
Where is a good place for a tent?
Propane: Heavier and denser
Butane: Lighter and high freezing point
What are the 2 different types of fuel sources?
Commonly used to tie guy lines onto a dinning fly and secure ropes to a post.
What is a Two Half-Hitch
Used for when you need to close a gap between poles that don't touch. Gets its name from the way it turns to poles.
What is a Diagonal Lashing?
"The critical condition brought on by the sudden drop in blood flow through the body."
Often caused by rapid temperature or pressure change.
What is shock?
How to be safe while using sharp tools.
What is the blood circle?
Running rivers and streams, rain, top water from ponds/lakes
How do you obtain water in an emergency?