Hiking: Merit Badge Series

Merit Badge Series

by Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scouts of America's Merit Badge Series pamphlet for Hiking.

The secret to successfully earning a merit badge is for you to use both the pamphlet and the suggestions of your counselor. Your counselor can be as important to you as a coach is to an athlete. Use all of the resources your counselor can make available to you.

This may be the best chance you will have to learn about this particular subject. Make it count!

Now in Kindle format, this merit badge pamphlet is one in a series of more than 100 covering all kinds of hobby and career subjects. It is made available for you to buy as a service of the national and local councils, Boy Scouts of America. The costs of the development, writing, and editing of the merit badge pamphlets are paid for by the Boy Scouts of America in order to bring you the best book at a reasonable price.

Genres: Nonfiction

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1991

Reviews

[Hellblau]

Good info for going on day hikes. Pretty easy merit badge you could probably get at camp or with some other scouts. The cover has a bunch of scouts with british-commando style berets. How come we never got those? We just had dumb trucker hats. This pamphlet briefly covers important topics such as:

taking care of your feet
walking technique
road hazards
outdoor hazards
how to make water safe to drink
fire safety
what to take with you
food to take hiking

[Michael Wiggins · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Hiking Merit Badge book has some great advice and good resources. Like most Scout MB handbooks it is light on descriptions of backwoods skills and heavy on emphasis on low impact hiking, fire use, etc. Scouts should definitely read it if they are working on this Eagle Scout required merit badge.