Useful Links

*Camping 

BSA Camps 

Camping Checklist

*Water Sports 

British Columbia Whitewater Page

Canoe Trip Guidelines for Leaders & Participants 

Environmentally Friendly Wilderness Canoe-Camping 

Idaho Rivers 

Learn CPR 

Paddling in the Columbia Slough 

Whitewater Rafting Website 

Encyclopedic Resource for Outdoor Recreation 

*Scoutcraft 

Merit badge help a very helpful website. It provides requirements for almost every merit badge.

National Audubon Society

Cooking for Scouts and Scouters 

Camporee Guidebook, Eastern District, Andrew Jackson Council

The Care and Feeding of Cast Iron Cookware

Dutch Oven Cooking (Mike Audleman)

*First Aid

Snake Bite 

Foil Packet Cooking (Reynolds Kitchens)

How to Make an Igloo 

International Dutch Oven Society 

*Knots

Animated Knots (42 Brighton Scout Group)

Knots 

How to Tie a Turk's Head Knot AKA The Wood Badge Woggle (neckerchief slide)

Knots on the Web 

Ropers Knots Page 

Rope Works 

Tying Knot 

Making Fire with Flint and Steel 

Morse Code 

Orienteering 

Scout Songbook 

*Electronic Maps  

Color Landform Atlas of the United States 

Computerized Mapping Software 

Digital Relief Maps of the United States 

USGS Digital Topo Archive  

Geomagnetic Field Synthesis Program (correcting declination)

National Park Maps 

GIS Sites 

Oregon 

Sierra Nevada clickable maps 

*Other

The Armchair Astronomer 

Mt Hood Ski Patrol Web Page 

Trout Unlimited 

National Outdoor Leadership School 

National Park Service 

Native American Resources Index Page 

MAC Scouter Keep Warm Page (winter camping & hypothermia)

Resica Falls Scout Reservation 

*BSA COPE Course

Mountaineer Area Council 

Scouters Mountain

Camp Cooper

*Scout Position Descriptions

Troop Positions

BSA Troop 870
Beaverton, Oregon