Camping Packing List

We recommend ensuring you use the list below as your packing list for the best possible outdoor experience.  Be sure to read the additional notes at the bottom for helpful information!

Individual Items

• Day Pack

  • • First Aid Kit (bandages / cleaning pads)

    • Sun protection (sunscreen / hat)

    • Bug repellent

    • Hand Sanitizer

    • Re-usable Water bottle (filled)

    • Whistle

    • Trail snacks

    • Flashlight

• Duffel or Large Bag

  • • Seasonal Clothes (enough for entire trip)

    • Extra Shoes

    • Mess Kit (Plates, Fork, Spoon, Cup)

    • Uniform

    • Towel

    • Scout Handbook

• Closed Toe Shoes

• Sleeping Bag / Blankets (see notes at the bottom)

• Sleeping Pad / Air Mattress

• Pillow

• Rain Gear (Jacket / Pants)

• Camp Chair

• Medicine (enough for duration)

• Smiles and Fun!

Family / Group Items

• Tent w/ Rainfly

• Ground cloth / Tarp (for under the tent)

• Tent Stakes

• Hammer (for tent stakes)

• **Camp Stove / Cooking supplies (Cubscouts does not allow any liquid fuels to be used for stoves)

• **Meal Food

** These items are commonly coordinated at the Den level to help reduce the amount of space needed at campouts

Pack Items (typically provided by the pack leadership)

• Firewood

• Fire bucket

• Afternoon Saturday activity for Pack campouts

Additional Notes

A few additional things to keep in mind as helpful hints.  Nothing can ruin a scouting overnight adventure like being wet and cold!

1. Be sure to bring extra socks.  You may need them!

2. Sleeping Bags are rated for survival, not comfort!  A good "rule of thumb" is that a sleeping bag stops being comfortable ~10 degrees higher than it's rating.  Therefore if you have a 40 degree sleeping bag, you will start to feel cold when the temperature gets to around 50 degrees.

3. Ever wonder why your air mattress deflates?  Be sure to have padding under it!  The ground will pull your body heat right through your sleeping bag.  Be sure to try to have a sleeping pad that provides at least 1/2 inch of padding between you and the ground!

4. Pack 625 will cancel a planned outdoor camping trip of the weather is expected to drop below 32 degrees at night.