One week! What to do?

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william O

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I'll be going with my son on a Boy Scout camp week this summer, and wondering if you guys have ideas on how to pass the time while he's working on advancement and merit badges. The other fathers say the adult leaders have a lot of down time. So far I'm thinking of"
  1. practicing feather sticks
  2. carving (bullroarer?, stakes, figure 4 trap, etc)
  3. lashing a camp chair (w/burlap sack seat/back)
  4. play w/ tarp set up and sleep in it
  5. sleep under stars w/ no shelter
  6. master 7 basic scout knots
  7. build and sleep in debris shelter
  8. try to cook bannock, try twisty stick bread

Any other ideas? Thanks! William
 
practice firemaking with a bowdrill
work on making natural cordage
cattail weaving
 
If there are suitable stones around the camp, or you can bring some tennis balls, you could learn how to use a sling.
Of course you would have to make one. http://slinging.org/
Guess what my hobby is:)
timann
 
Forget the crook knife and actually learn to make a spoon without using a silly dedicated tool that you aren't likely to carry with you most of the time you're in the woods :D
 
Try to meet the qualifications for one or more of the Scout merit badges.
 
Bring some of that Guiness that magically gets cold when you pop the top :D.
Bring books to read.
Bring a long list of stuff to work on.
If you can take off at all, do a day hike.
Work on your Archery.
Help the Scouts out!
 
Drink lots of beer. When I was a young boy, I was in the Indian Guides. They used to call my father Big Cheif Michelob. Greatest man I ever have known.
 
Netmaking? Sweet. :)

Have you ever made any beer or wine? I'd say brew yourself something from ingredients you gather out there. Depending on the time of summer, this could be easy (tree fruits or berries) or very hard (trying to get the starches in root vegetables to convert to sugars). You can have it fermented and drinkable in about three days, so that's a day or two of gathering, an afternoon of cooking, three days waiting, and a day or two of drinking.

There's a project to keep you occupied all week!
 
Bring some steel and practice neotribal knifesmithing techniques.
 
I'm gonna give this a bump because I'm gonna be on a four day camp and want some ideas. ;) Hey Doc, how do you get started in netmaking?
 
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