Date: Fri Aug 21, 4:00 PM PDT - Sun Aug 23, 1:00 PM PDT
Category:
- Adult Training
Level:
- Volunteers
Join us for a hands-on, skill-learning-packed weekend where you will experience how to teach your Girl Scouts how to take themselves (and you) on an outdoor camping trip! This training will prepare you to lead your Girl Scouts through the progression needed to have successful outdoor trips that empower them to be even more confident, courageous, and strong! After taking this training, expect to spend six months or more teaching and equipping a troop with these skills. This training is required for any overnight trip that does not have heat, electricity, and/or flush toilets. This training is also required if food is cooked with fire, propane, or coals. This session of Before You Camp Like a Girl Scout is three days, rather than the usual two-day sessions, please plan accordingly.
This training has been generously subsidized by the Theda Family Endowment for member year 2026.
Objectives/Outcomes of this training:
- Learn to teach your Girl Scouts how to:
- Safely use outdoor tools and knives
- Strike and use matches
- Split wood
- Light wood fires and propane stoves
- Complete meal preparation and clean-up
- Set up camp and tents
- Prepare for sleeping outdoors
- By the time your troop goes camping, the Girl Scouts will be taking themselves!
- Note: This is an entirely outdoor training, and you will spend two nights in your tent outside.
Supplies
A confirmation email with additional details will be sent
approximately one week before the training. This confirmation email
will include directions to the training location, a finalized packing
list, and additional details. Please note in advance that you will be
required to bring your own tent and sleeping gear.
- Pen/Paper/Training notes
- Tent and all tent gear, including rain fly, stakes, ground tarp
- Sleeping gear (pad, sleeping bag rated to 20 degrees, and/or extra blankets, pillow)
- Mess kit (plate, bowl, cup, hot water cup, fork, knife, spoon, does not have to be an official mess kit)
- Dunk bag - optional (mesh bag used for drying mess kit dishes)
- Pocket knife
- Camp chair
- Flashlight, headlamp, or battery-operated lantern
- Outdoor clothing - layers - check the weather for the location you are attending
- Closed-toed shoes (sneakers, boots)
- Coat, hat & gloves as you prefer
- Rain gear (there is always a chance of rain)
- Toiletries
- Phone or camera for taking pictures of demonstration
- Water bottle w/ cap - No glass
- External Power Brick/Charger for phones (there will not be access to electricity to charge phones)
Price
- $30/adult
- The registration fee includes meals for the weekend, which participants will cook themselves as part of the training. Meals are planned with gluten-free and vegetarian options; please contact answers@girlscoutsosw.org if you have additional dietary needs or questions.
Prerequisite Training Requirements
- Before You Leave the Meeting Place (formerly Inside & Out Part 1)
- This training is to be taken before you camp like a Girl Scout (outdoor overnight) or using fire with Girl Scouts and after practicing the previous training with your Girl Scouts for at least three months.
Registration, Cancellation & Refund Information
- Registration closes on 8/9.
- Request for cancellation must be submitted via email to answers@gsosw.org by this date in order to receive a refund less this training's cancellation fee ($15).
- No refunds will be given after the registration deadline.
- GSOSW reserves the right to cancel an event due to low enrollment or other circumstances which would make the event non-viable. If GSOSW cancels an event, registrants will be notified and offered a full refund.
