Bushcraft camping relies on wilderness survival skills, primitive shelter building, and relying on the natural environment rather than modern amenities. It involves minimal gear, open fire cooking, and traditional tools like axes and knives to comfortably live off the land while strictly practicing Leave No Trace principles.
Scouts will sleep in their choice of a tarp shelter they construct themselves or an improvised shelter made from natural materials on hand. We will use hatchets and knives to safely process wood, build fires without matches, and cook our meals over an open fire—no stoves! For Scouts working on their Wilderness Survival merit badge, this is an opportunity to complete most, if not all, of the practical requirements. For everyone else, it will be a super-fun campout that will test your skills, teach you new ones, and generally make you a more capable outdoorsman than everyone else you know.
Wilderness Survival
You will have opportunities to complete requirements 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10.
You can learn everything you need to know for requirements 1–7 here.
Note: Adults will have the option to sleep in tents.