Cardboard Campout

Cardboard Campout
(Fort Building)

We are going to be having a Cardboard Campout (Fort Building).  This will be our pre-winter campout.  The Scouts will be building forts out of cardboard and sleeping in them.  We will be teaching the boys how to winter camp in a safe, easy to abandon, environment.  It will be cold, so please read the "what to bring carefully".  We may even qualify for a couple of Frost Points.  For dinner the scouts will be eating cooking hotdogs and dutch-oven.

We are in need of extra donations of cardboard and duct tape.

What to Bring:

• Cardboard box (large appliance size, refrigerator size boxes work best)
• Duct tape (lots of duct tape)
• Tarps (if you can)
• Winter sleeping bag (rated at 15 degrees or below) or multiple sleeping bags (nested together)
• Blankets (for above and below sleeping bag)
• Thick pad to sleep on (thicker is better), 2 pads would be preferred
• note: air mattresses are terrible for winter camping
• Change of clothing, including underwear and socks, to sleep in (critical!)
• Flannel pants and sweatshirt (with hood or winter hat) to sleep in
• Hand warmers (10+ hours - anything less than 8 hour is useless for overnight)