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I’m Patrick, and this my ScoutCraft blog. On this blog I will post everything I do relating to ScoutCrafting. So, what is ScoutCraft?

ScoutCraft is ..

a term used to cover a variety of knowledge and skills required by people seeking to venture into wild country and sustain themselves independently

– Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As part of a Balanced Programme for young people, the outdoors:

  • encourages self reliance, resourcefulness and confidence in their own ability
  • develops skills associated with traditional Scoutcraft
  • provides training for what to do in emergency situations

– The Scout Association of the United Kingdom on their ScoutBase website

So what IS ScoutCraft?

An example list of Scoutcraft skills, taken from 1964’s Boy Scout Handbook (sixth edition) includes:

  • Camp Cooking
  • Camp Health
  • Camp Preparation
  • Cleanup
  • Edible Wild Plants
  • Finding Directions
  • Fire Building
  • First aid
  • Hiking
  • Knowing Trees and Shrubs
  • Lashings
  • Map Reading
  • Map Sketching
  • Preparing Firewood
  • Selecting [a] Campsite
  • Signaling
  • Swimming
  • Tent Pitching
  • Use of [a] Compass
  • Using [an] Axe in Camp
  • Wildlife

– Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So as it looks like, ScoutCraft is just another name for BushCraft, WoodCraft, Survival(?)?
And YES, that’s it!

Why go for ScoutCraft and not for a name based on the all famous BushCraft or Survival?
Well, lately there are some very great and cool tv-shows, namely Survivorman and Man vs. Wild, but they both talk about BushCraft as if it can only be done in a survival situation. Ray Mears also makes great tv-shows compleetly based on BushCraft, but still with that ‘Survival’ element. I choose for ScoutCraft, because it means the same as BushCraft but as far as I found on the net, ScoutCraft is not so related to Survival as BushCraft is. And that’s exactly what I want. I want everything BushCraft has to offer, but in a hobby and entertainment perspective.