When hiking and camping, all Scouts must live by the Outdoor Code -- be clean in your outdoor manners; be careful with fire; be considerate; and be conservation minded.

The Boy Scouts of America, the Order of the Arrow, and Lodge 66 stress low, minimum impact camping. This means you DO NOT trench tents, dig latrines, bury trash or start new fire pits. You SHOULD use cat-holes instead of latrines and burn and carry out ALL trash.

Obey the rules of the trail. They are:

• Always register if there is a registration box at the trail head.
• Use switch backs properly -- NEVER cut across switch backs.
• Be kind to the countryside -- do not make new trails through environmentally fragile areas; do not harass or tease wildlife.
• Treat other hikers with courtesy -- respect their campsite privacy; leave radios and tape players at home.
• Give livestock the right-of-way.
• Leave gates the way you found them -- open or closed.
• Pickup litter -- both yours and other peoples.

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