Clarifying Erroneous Info

[rkfrance]

1) Ratios for Pack camping are specific to each council based on guidelines from national. Each council is permitted to set their own policies based on those guidelines.

 

Check with your council office or website for their Cub Scout camping policy.

 

2) NOT!

 

3) BALOO is based on cub scout camping policy. See #1. If you change councils, you may be required to retake BALOO or your council may require you to retake it based on their own policies.

[83Eagle]

I see responses that state or imply that pack camping is family camping with each boy accompanied by a parent on a 1:1 basis.

 

However, nowhere is a ratio shown (that I have found anyway). It says only that "In most cases, each youth member will be under the supervision of a parent or guardian. In all cases, each youth participant is responsible to a specific adult."

 

Therefore, each youth must be responsible to "a" specific adult, but that does not preclude Jimmy, Bobby, Hayden, and Joseph from each being assigned to the same specific adult. Now that might not be wise, but that's why you have BALOO training and camp committee meetings to sort those things out.

 

Now, Tigers must be accompanied by their adult partners, and families may not share tents, so the practicality of arrangements that are not boy:parent in Pack camping may be difficult to accomplish.

[Eagle92]

rk,

BALOO is a NATIONAL training program, not a local council one, so if you take it in one council, you will not have to take it in another (IF SCOUTNET has it recorded and transmits the records; always keep a paper copy). It's code C42, and at the present time you only need to take it 1 time. Haven't heard of any council making you renew it every 2 years, and national has specifically posted that you only take it one time.

 

Now can national change that, absolutely as they changed YPT from 1 time only to every two years now. But for the moment BALOO is good forever.