Participate in 5 activities
1a.
Since joining Scouts BSA, participate in five separate troop/patrol activities, at least three of which must be held outdoors. Of the outdoor activities, at least two must include overnight camping. These activities do not include troop or patrol meetings. On campouts, spend the night in a tent that you pitch or other structure that you help erect, such as a lean-to, snow cave, or tepee.
Five activities sounds simple until you try to count them accurately — this requirement has three separate minimums stacked inside it, and missing one of them means an activity you thought counted actually doesn’t.
The Three Minimums
- Five activities total, counted from the day you joined Scouts BSA — not from when you started working on Second Class.
- At least three of those five must be outdoors. The other two can be indoor troop activities, service projects, or anything else your patrol does together.
- At least two of the outdoor activities must include overnight camping. A day hike or a service morning outdoors counts toward the “outdoor” minimum, but not toward the overnight minimum unless you actually camp.
Regular troop or patrol meetings never count, even if they’re held outdoors.
Pitching Your Own Shelter
On every overnight campout you count toward this requirement, you must sleep in a tent you pitched yourself — or another structure you helped erect, like a lean-to, snow cave, or tepee. You pitched a tent for the first time at Tenderfoot; here, that same skill just has to happen again on every qualifying night, not once.
Activity Log
Track each activity as it happens
- Date and activity name.
- Indoor or outdoor.
- Overnight camping or not.
- Who you helped pitch a tent or structure with, if it was overnight.