CAMPER ADVANCED
NOTE: The person testing this badge should be an experienced camper and/or hold a Guide camp licence. To do this badge you must have already been to two or more Guide camps. Altogether you must have spent at least six nights in a Guide camp.

Shelter

1. Take part in putting up two types of tent.

2. Know how to make simple tent repairs.

Personal kit

Either:

1. Demonstrate how to pack your bag/rucksack so that it is easy to find things and your kit stays dry.

Or

2. Know what clothes you need for different kinds of weather. Demonstrate that you are prepared to get out of bed in the middle of the night (e.g. wellies, coat, torch etc).

Or

3. Know how to take care of your bedding and how to store it during the day so that it stays dry.

Food and Drink

Do two of the following:

1. Demonstrate two methods of cooking a meal out of doors, e.g. barbecue, Gas stove, Trangia stove, wood fire.

2. Show how to store safely all groceries including bread, milk, meat, sugar and sweets.

3. Know where to collect drinking water and how to store it.

Hygiene

Either:

1. If the camp is using toilet tents:

Help to put the tent up and equip it with latrine, gadget for hand-washing etc and be responsible for at least one duty of helping to keep the toilet tent and surrounding washing area clean and tidy.

Or

2. If the camp is using toilet blocks:

Be responsible for at least one duty of cleaning and tidying the whole block and restocking as necessary.

Other Campers

Either:

1. Be responsible for showing a first-time camper the routines of the camp.

Or

2. Keep a record of what your Patrol did at camp and use this to show the tester what was good about the camp.

Environment

Either:

1. Suggest two ways you can take care of the environment at camp.

Or

2. Find something in nature that inspires you and talk to the tester about it.