Boy Scout Troop 126
Leicester Federated Church
Leicester, MA 01524

         Last Updated: January 8, 1998

         A primary focus of our scout troop has been the development of outdoor skills.
         Within the course of a year, we regularly take part in weekend and week-long
         backpacking trips, canoe trips beetween 2 and 7 days, and snow shoe hike trips.
         Skills that are taught through the regular Monday night meetings and on weekend
         (or longer) trips include:

• water safety, survival and canoe "how to..." skills
• hiking, orienteering, land navigation and bush-whacking skills
• first aid skills
• food and fire planning, safety, and general "how to..." skills
• leadership and group dynamic skills
• speciality skills such as winter survival and snow shoeing
• woods skills including plant identification, lashings and the use of lashings,
  and use of camp tools skills
• various merit badge skills such as wilderness survival, canoeing, backpacking,
  swimming practice, ecology and so forth

         Although survival skills are taught on a regular basis, it is important to stay current in these
         skills. Since we can not possibly cover all aspects of wilderness survival, this web site has
         been created to provide links to other sites where any interested scout (or anyone else for
         that matter) can find further information about wilderness survival.

         If the information you are looking for is not here, try searching Yahoo! using the key
         words "wilderness survival". Most of the sites listed below were discovered in this manner.

      Links to Wilderness Survival Information

  Directory of Wilderness Education Survival Schools

     Hoods Woods - Survival and Education

    Wolf Page - for the more adventuresome scouts.

     

       Other Links

Wilderness Survival Evaluation Form

Basic Wilderness Survival Tips

Cornell Outdoor Education Winter Camping Check List

F. J. Looft, Professor of ECE at WPI. fjlooft@ee.wpi.edu