Date: Sat Feb 07, 9:00 AM EST - Sat Feb 07, 5:00 PM EST
Category:
- Adult Training,
- Outdoor
Level:
- Volunteers
Location: Camp Indian Echo, 11004 Hudson Ave, Hudson,
FL 34669
Who Can Attend: Adults
Adult Event Fee: $10 per adult
Registration Deadline: 1/25/2026
Prerequisite: Basic Outdoor Leadership Training
Take your camping experience one step further. Learn about
girl/adult partnerships, tent camping readiness, and advanced camping
skills. This includes compass skills, trail markers, hacksaws, axes,
knots and lashing, and Leave No Trace principles. Required for Tent
Camping on and off GSWCF properties.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the Girl/Adult Partnership (becoming an observer/mentor)
- Understand Leave No Trace Principles
- Learn about troop readiness and needed outdoor skills for tent camping experiences. Identify suitable locations for tent camping
- Practice outdoor skills including knots, lashing, hatchets, bow & finger saws, trail markers, compass, and edible plants vs. poisonous plants
- Connect outdoor progressions and 5 Girl Scout outcomes that are important to troop camping or outdoor activities
- Identify outdoor activity resources available for use and where to find them
Completion of this training does not guarantee automatic
approval or certification. This course is designed to prepare
volunteers to lead Girl Scout programming independently and
responsibly. To be approved, participants must demonstrate the
learning objectives above and be able to apply it to real-life
situations when appropriate. Final approval is at the discretion of
the trainer, based on the participant's engagement, preparedness, and
ability to meet the standards required to ensure girl safety and
uphold Girl Scout values.
Learning Objectives:
- Incorporate Girl-Led philosophy and girl readiness
progressions to develop planning, and preparedness skills for
successful troop cabin camping
- Learn to teach fire building
and safety skills
- Learn to teach how to plan an outdoor menu,
use basic outdoor cooking skills and make simple meals
- Learn
check-in and check-out procedures & Camp Safety at Girl Scout
camps
- Understand your role as the "Camp Resource
Person", with Minimal Impact training and understand where and
how you can camp
Completion of this training does not guarantee automatic approval
or certification. This course is designed to prepare volunteers to
lead Girl Scout programming independently and responsibly. To be
approved, participants must demonstrate the learning objectives above
and be able to apply it to real-life situations when appropriate.
Final approval is at the discretion of the trainer, based on the
participant's engagement, preparedness, and ability to meet the
standards required to ensure girl safety and uphold Girl Scout
values.
Confirmation Email:
Will be sent out two weeks before the event start date.
Important: The confirmation email will includes required
prework, packing lists, trainer contact information and other
important details need to prepare for the day of the training.
Refund/Cancellation Guidelines:
* All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing via
email and sent directly to info@gswcf.org
* There will be no
refunds or transfers for no-shows. Please refer to the training
description for information regarding potential no-show fees.
*
Refund requests received on or after 1/25/2026 will
not be eligible for a refund, except in extenuating circumstances on a
case-by-case request.
* For questions about this event, please
contact Adult Learning at adultlearning@gswcf.org.
* Click here to fill
out the form for a waitlist spot if this event is sold out. Please
note, this does not guarantee your registration into the event.
NJ
