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OKPIK Cold Weather Camping Description

BSA High Adventure Okpik, Cold Weather Camping Awareness Basic Backpacking Awareness Paddle Sports Awareness        

INTRODUCTION TO COLD WEATHER CAMPING
WINTER TRAVEL
· Vehicle Readiness & Driving Tactics
· Trail Travel In The Snow
· Snowshoes
· Cross Country Skis
· Packs
· Sleds
· Weather
· Avalanches

WINTER CAMP LIVING
· Sanitation and Etiquette
· Fires

NAVIGATION IN THE WINTER

PERSOANL GEAR
· Clothing, Layering & Footwear
· Sleep Gear

GROUP EQUIPMENT
· Stoves, Fuel and Cooking Gear
· Tents and Tarps
· Igloo
· Quinzee or Snow Dome
· Snow Cave
· Snow Trench or Snow Pit
· Emergency Snow Shelter

HOME MADE EQUIMENT

FOOD, WATER, COOKING, AND CLEAN-UP

COLD WEATHER MEDICINE
· Your Body and the Cold - Biophysiology
· Snow Blindness
· Frost Nip and Frostbite
· Hypothermia

WHERE TO TREK & AWARDS


email HAT-OKPIK at hat.okpik at gec-bsa dot org for more information
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This page revised June 23, 2008

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