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Printable Outdoors checklist
One page with a box for every Outdoors skill. Skills you have marked learned in this browser print with their dates.
Outdoors checklist
- Campfire: allowed, ring, tinder, kindling, wood; out means drown, stir, feel, cold.
- Knots: bowline, clove hitch, trucker's hitch, taut-line hitch, square knot.
- Map and compass: edge to destination, dial lines to north, needle in the arrow, walk it.
- Tent: practice at home, raised flat ground, sheet tucked in, stakes angled, fly taut.
- Camp water: clear flowing source, settle cloudy water, boil a minute or filter or treat.
- Leave no trace: plan, durable ground, pack it out, leave it, small fires, wildlife, others.
- Lost hiking: stop, sit, think, stay put, stay warm, three whistle blasts, call or text 911.
- Lightning: thunder means go inside, hard-topped car or building, wait 30 minutes after.
- Hypothermia: shiver, fumble, stumble; out of the wet, dry layers, insulate, 911 if confused.
- Tie down a load: two rated straps, solid anchors, bow and stern lines, twist, recheck.
- Day hike bag: water, extra snacks, layers, headlamp, paper map, first aid, whistle, route told.