Camping Equipment
If you need to purchase equipment here are some helps: Below is a list of camping gear, remember some of this gear will be included with
your group's gear. This list is to help you if you are starting from scratch.
Tent and Sleeping Gear:
your group's gear. This list is to help you if you are starting from scratch.
Tent and Sleeping Gear:
- Sleeping bags
- Sleeping pad
- Tent, rain fly, stakes, poles, ground cloth
- Spare tent stakes
- Backpack
- Large garbage bags
- Ponchos
- Staff sacks for clothes and personals
- Flashlights plus new batteries and bulbs
- Nested pots and lids (not mess kit)
- cups or covered mug
- plates & bowls
- spatula
- forks and spoons
- fry pan
- backpack grill
- camp stove plus fuel and funnel
- matches
- candle
- scouring pad/sponge
- aluminum foil (2 folded sheets for packing)
- light mesh bag (as dish drainer, suspended from tree)
- pair of garden gloves (for hot pots and wood gathering)
- Sven saw (or other folding type of saw for cutting wood)
- Canteens/water bottles
- Collapsible water container (1/2 gallon clean milk jug)
- water-purifying system
- Ziploc bags
- liquid (biodegradable) dish soap
- Maps and permits
- compass
- First-aid Kit
- Repair Kit
- Toothpaste, dental floss
- Small towel
- Lantern and fuel
- Mosquito repellent
- Plastic spade
- toilet paper
- sunglasses (in hard case)
- Walking stick
- rope and sack to animal proof food
- rope for clothesline and clothes pins
