Basic 8 Outdoor
Skills (formerly
Beginning Outdoor Skills and Tent Camping)) prepares
leaders to teach their girls outdoor skills such as an building outdoor cooking
fire, preparing camp meals, pitching tents and caring for platform tents, and
appreciation and care for the environment. This training is required of leaders
before approval of any outdoor camping trips as well as cookouts.
The training is
approximately 8.5 hours and includes basic outdoor skills training, meal
planning outdoor cooking techniques, camp and cooking fires, basic knots, tool
use and safety, skills for living and plying the the outdoors, care and use of
tents, assessing girls' readiness and skills, and low impact camping techniques.