4. Outdoor Scouting
(Outdoor Scouting) This is a compulsory achievement

Compass and Navigation

• Discuss how a compass works and show you know the four principal points.
  
• Make a simple compass.

Maps and Hiking

• Attend at least 2 outdoor outings with your Pack.
  
• Dress correctly and pack your own daypack for the outings.

Fire Lighting.

• Demonstrate the correct way to strike a match. 

Outdoor Cooking
Prepare and cook for yourself a damper/twist. 

Compass and Navigation

• Demonstrate an understanding of how many degrees there are in a compass and the eight principal points. 
  
• Use a compass to follow a trail, which includes at least six compass points.
  

Maps and Hiking

• Use a road map to work out the distances between two towns named by your examiner.
  
• Demonstrate five trail signs. 
  

Fire Lighting.

• Discuss ways that fires can start in the home and the bush.
  

Outdoor Cooking

• On a fire you prepare and light, cook a meal such as sausages or food in a foil pouch. 
  

Compass and Navigation

• Use a compass to plan a bushwalk route on a map.
  
• Use a compass to set a simple trail including six compass points for the rest of your Pack to follow. 
  
• Know the eight principal points and the associated degrees.
  

Maps and Hiking

• Explain scale and contour lines. 
  
• Explain at least eight map symbols and be able to find them on the map.
  
• Using at least five different trail signs make a track for the rest of your Pack to follow.
  

Fire Lighting

• Explain about different types of cooking fires and demonstrate at least one.
  

Outdoor Cooking 

• Using your cooking fire, prepare a meal for yourself and an adult, including meat, vegetable and a hot drink.