We will host the annual Glacier’s Edge Council-wide Backpack Camporee at Indian Lake Park located in Cross Plains. This camporee will give scouts/scouters a chance to learn basic to advanced backpacking skills (water filtration, light weight stove usage and backpack food demonstration), basic to ultra- light equipment demonstrations, Leave No Trace camping, Wilderness First aid. There plenty of opportunity to have fun and it is encouraged to share your troop’s/crew’s adventures with other scouts/scouters. NEW for 2019 - Wilderness Canoe Trip Survival Skills, this will be taught the 1st 3 sessions of the day.
 

The Backpack Camporee is designed for Boy Scout Troops and Venture Crews, please no Cub Scout packs
Your backpacking experience will include having your troop/crew set-up camp on Friday night and pack up/move to a different site on Saturday (this replicates many high adventure backpacking outing situations). Camp sites will have GPS coordinates, so if you have GPS units, feel free to bring them. A very limited supply of GPS units will be available for use.

Each unit is responsible for their own food. Bear bag policy for Troop/Crew food/smellables will be mandatory!
Start or finish working on their Backpack merit badge. The Backpacking merit badge is offered through an outpost program geared for older Scouts with some backpacking experience. The is would include attending previous BP camporees. this outpost activity takes an entire weekend to complete and is not offered in the hourly sessions on Saturday.

 

MAY 15 - 17, 2020