earning a climbing merit badge

[faster_than_you]

Ok, who gets their climbing merit badge? Check out the list of others... http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/

 

Boy Scout Merit Badge Requirements

 

CLIMBING

1. Show that you know first aid for injuries or illnesses that may occur during climbing activities, including hypothermia, blisters, sprains, snakebite, abrasions, fractures, and insect bites or stings.

 

2. Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR on a person. Demonstrate proper technique in performing CPR using a training device approved by your counselor.

 

3. Present yourself properly dressed for belaying, climbing, and rappelling (i.e., appropriate clothing, footwear, and a helmet; rappellers must wear gloves).

 

4. Location. Do the following:

a. Explain how the difficulty of climbs is classified, and apply classifications to the rock faces or walls where you will demonstrate your climbing skills.

b. Explain the following: top-rope climbing, lead climbing, and bouldering.

c. Evaluate the safety of a particular climbing area. Consider weather, visibility, the condition of the climbing surface, and any other environmental hazards.

d. Determine how to summon aid to the climbing area in case of an emergency.

 

5. Verbal signals. Explain the importance of using verbal signals during every climb and rappel, and while bouldering. With the help of the merit badge counselor or another Scout, demonstrate the verbal signals used by each of the following:

a. Climbers

b. Rappellers

c. Belayers

d. Boulderers and their spotters

 

6. Rope. Do the following:

a. Describe the kinds of rope acceptable for use in climbing and rappelling.

b. Show how to examine a rope for signs of wear or damage.

c. Discuss ways to prevent a rope from being damaged.

d. Explain when and how a rope should be retired.

e. Properly coil a rope.

 

7. Knots. Demonstrate the ability to tie each of the following knots. Give at least one example of how each knot is used in belaying, climbing, or rappelling.

a. Figure eight on a bight

b. Figure eight follow-through

c. Water knot

d. Double fisherman's knot (Grapevine knot)

 

8. Harnesses. Correctly put on at least ONE of the following:

a. Commercially made climbing harness

b. Tied harness

 

9. Belaying. Do the following:

a. Explain the importance of belaying every climber and rappeller.

b. Belay three different climbers ascending a rock face or climbing wall.

c. Belay three different rappellers descending a rock face or climbing wall.

 

10. Climbing. Do the following:

a. Show the correct way to tie into a belay rope.

b. Climb at least three different routes on a rock face or climbing wall, demonstrating good technique and using verbal signals with belayer.

 

11. Rappelling. Do the following:

a. Using carabiners and a rappel device, secure your climbing harness or tied harness to a rappel rope.

b. Tie in to a belay rope set up to protect rappellers.

c. Rappel down three different rock faces or three rappel routes on a climbing wall. Use verbal signals to communicate with a belayer, and demonstrate good rappelling technique.

 

12. Demonstrate ways to store rope, hardware, and other gear used for climbing, rappelling, and belaying.

[catbirdseat]

10. Climbing. Do the following:

 

b. Climb at least three different routes on a rock face or climbing wall, demonstrating good technique and using verbal signals with belayer.

I assume this is on top rope and not on lead.

[Dru]

Its going to be funny when the Scouts see a Mountie scrambling class acting unsafe and rappelling down the trail without a separate belay.

[faster_than_you]

3. Present yourself properly dressed for belaying, climbing, and rappelling (i.e., appropriate clothing, footwear, and a helmet; rappellers must wear gloves).

 

No gaiters?

[DirtyHarry]

They forgot:

 

Know how to live in truck for weeks at a time without getting molested by the rangers.

 

Know how to bivy without getting molested by snaffles.

 

Know how to eat well on five dollars a week.

 

Know how to properly pack Rasta Bivy kit.

[snugtop]

No gaiters?

 

Gaiters are excess baggage...who needs 'em!

[faster_than_you]

They forgot:

 

Know how to live in truck for weeks at a time without getting molested by the rangers.

 

Know how to bivy without getting molested by snaffles.

 

Know how to eat well on five dollars a week.

 

Know how to properly pack Rasta Bivy kit.

 

You forgot, "Know how to return bootied climbing gear to REI for cash (not store credit.)" Then you can earn the seagull scout award.

[faster_than_you]

hey snugtop, check out the dog care merit badge.

[snugtop]

I bet they expect you to scoop the poop

[faster_than_you]

I bet they expect you to scoop the poop

You're such a New Yorker. They have quite a list of merit badges.

 

http://www.meritbadge.com/mb/041.htm

[snugtop]

No, New Yorkers scoop. It's the Parisians who don't.

 

Did you get the bugling badge, FTY?

[faster_than_you]

I was denied at "Pulp and Paper." But I did get "Entrepreneurship." God bless the American way.

 

I recall seeing a few NY'ers miss the scoop.

[olyclimber]

Unfortunately, earning the atomic energy merit badge will land you on the Home Land Security watch list and possibly a sleep over at Donnie Rumsfeld's house.

[ScottP]

They have quite a list of merit badges

"1.

a. Give a brief report on the history of duct tape; tell how it is made, who invented it and why it was first invented. Create a timeline of the history of duct tape and tell its main purpose in the present day.

b. Research duct tape in American history and tell how it has helped our country in times of peace and war.

c. Tell the possible risks and safety hazards of using duct tape and tell how to avoid them.

 

2. List 30 uses of duct tape. Discuss it with your counselor and then publish the list to make the people in your troop and community aware of how duct tape can benefit them. The publication should also include the possible hazards of using duct tape, as well as how to safely use duct tape (see requirement 1c).

 

3. Discuss various brands/grades/colors of duct tape in use today and tell their differences. Describe qualities that distinguish high-grade tape from low-grade tape.

 

4. Demonstrate your skill with duct tape by constructing two of the following using only duct tape:

a. Wallet

b. Ring

c. Belt

d. Cup/Mug

e. Flower

Decorate your creations with a design of your choice.

 

5. Using one item from requirement 4, do one of the following:

a. Take the item to a troop meeting and give a presentation on how you made the item.

b. Enter your item into a local art show.

c. Have your item displayed in a public display window.

 

6. Write an essay of at least 150 words about duct tape. Include in the essay possible careers in the field of duct tape use and production that may interest you, what you have learned about duct tape, and the role of duct tape in the future."

[EWolfe]

Red Green would appreciate that.