Troop 31 - Boy Scouts of America St. George’s Church 4715 Harding Road
Nashville, Tennessee 37205
Camping Hints
Use these tips and tricks to make your next camping trip a success:
Put your sleeping bag inside a trash compactor bag (they’re heavy duty, compared to regular garbage bags) inside the stuff sack -- that way, if it rains and
your pack gets soaked, you’ll be able to sleep dry.
Use your nalgene bottle as a hot water bottle at night -- fill it up with hot water and put it in your sleeping bag -- but be sure to close the top tight!
On very cold nights, keep your boots at the bottom of your sleeping bag, so they are soft and warm and easy to put on in the morning.
If you have new boots that need breaking in (and all new boots do!) put them on as soon as you get home from school. Put them on after school, take them off before bed, and
they’ll be easily broken in when it comes time to need them.
Spray your clothes with Repel (which contains permanone, buy it at Friedman’s) and the ticks will leave you alone. You do it by laying them on the driveway
and spraying them -- don’t wear them and spray them. Supposedly you can wash the clothes several times and the stuff still works.
Make sure the edges of your ground cloth (plastic sheet) don’t stick out past the side of your tent, as rain water will run off the tent, hit the plastic and run under the tent.
Keep the ground cloth an inch or two inside the edge of your tent.
When you come back from a campout, open your sleeping bag and everything so it will have a chance to air out. Then, leave your sleeping bag open and fluffed
up. Do not store it in a stuff sack. I keep mine under a bed. Also, store your ground pad unrolled.
