Owasippe Check List
In your Scout Handbook is a list of everything you need to bring when you go camping. Please check it and use it as your guide. This list here is an additional check list for you to use to prepare. If you feel we’ve missed something, please let us know.
Bring these items...
✔ Scout song or skit for closing campfire, and your enthusiasm for a week of fun (a.k.a. Scout Spirit!).
✔ Medicines if you take them, along with instructions so a leader can administer them. No medicine of any kind may be kept in your tent.
✔ Medical form, Horseback riding permission slip (even if you don’t know right now), and any other permission slip for an activity you want to participate in.
✔ Sleeping Bag (plus a pillow if you prefer)
✔ Sleeping pad (please not inflatable air mattresses)
✔ Mess kit/Canteen with plate, spoon, fork and knife
✔ Reusable and durable water bottle
Clothing...
We have a bucket, a plunger, soap and clothesline to do laundry...
no going into town.
To be worn to and from Owasippe and at the opening and closing campfire...
Your full scout Class A uniform with a Troop 39 neckerchief, slide, shirt and scout pants (scout pants are not required, but a pair of pants with no tears is).
✔ Jacket/Sweatshirt (it does get chilly, last year it never made it into the 80s during the day and scouts were shivering unless they were around a campfire at night)
✔ Poncho or raincoat
✔ Pants/Shorts (a least 2 pair)
✔ Underwear (at least 6 pair)
✔ T-shirts (at least 6 pair)
✔ Swimsuit (maybe 2)
✔ Socks (at least 6 pair)
✔ Shoes (2 pair)
✔ Boots
✔ Towels
✔ Sleepwear
✔ Flip Flops or Shower Shoes
✔ Scout hat, or appropriate hat
Also bring...
✔ Mosquito repellant (non-aerosol)
✔ Mosquito netting
✔ Pillow
✔ Sleeping bag/blankets
✔ Scout Handbook and anything that you are working on for merit badges at camp
✔ Flashlight
✔ Pencil & Notebook
✔ Plate, bowl, cup
✔ Knife, fork, spoon
✔ Toilet articles (Toothpaste, toothbrush and durable plastic cup to hold items)
✔ Handkerchief/Kleenex
✔ Wallet
✔ Towel (maybe two), and wash cloth
Bring money...
Money for the a meal up to camp and back from camp, as well at least one trip to Monster Shake or Dog ‘n’ Suds (a.k.a. Arf and Snarf). Money for Scout Store and depending upon the merit badge you are working on you may need to purchase items, such as leatherwork or basketry. All money in an envelope with your name on it and any instructions from your parent or guardian should be given to the adult leader acting as our troop banker, who will allocate the money to you as needed. If you exceed the dollar amount given, you will have to pay it back. Also, consider giving your driver $15.00 for gas money.
Okay items, but not necessary...
✔ Compass
✔ Camera & film
✔ Watch
✔ Religious book (Bible, Prayer Book)
✔ Fishing gear
✔ Spending Money Belt
✔ Sunglasses
✔ Comb
✔ Food (a.k.a. snacks) may not be kept in your tent! But we can keep them in the trailer. There is a Trading Post that sells ice cream and candy. There is plenty of food covered by the camping fee, so you will not starve. Don’t worry, you will not go hungry. Don’t bring something perishable. We don’t have the facilities to preserve them.
Don’t bring... Don’t bring... Don’t bring...
✔ Firearms of any kind
✔ Personal Water Craft
✔ Alcohol or Illegal drugs
✔ Paintball guns
✔ Fireworks
✔ Boats (without prior approval)
✔ Bikes
✔ Pets
✔ ATV's
✔ Archery Equipment
✔ Aerosol cans
✔ Electronic equipment may be brought up to Owasippe for the car ride, but you cannot have it while at camp. The less you bring the less of chance it will get lost. You cannot have a cell phone with you at camp. It must be turned over to the adult leaders, who will lock up in a safe place in case you need to make a call home.
✔ Don’t bring...shirts that have inappropriate images or words on them. You simply will not wear it.
✔ Don’t bring a bad attitude. Owasippe is a fun, enjoyable experience for everyone, including the leaders. Certainly there will be challenges, but it’s time to enjoy being outdoors.
We've never called a parent or guardian to come and pick up a boy who will not listen and we fully expect that it will not happen (because they are just having too much fun), but it is not out of the realm of possibility if a boy is disrupting the experience for others and refuses to cooperate.