Summer Camp 2025

The camp will provide cots, wall tents (plan on sharing), and cooking and eating utensils, so you don’t need to pack a tent or mess kit.

Pack your personal gear so that you can carry it 1.5 miles to the outpost. Bring gear of an early style. Camp will provide you with a Blue Ridge Mountaineer shirt. That shirt, with the earth tone long pants you bring, is the uniform for Blue Ridge Mountaineer. Scouts and leaders will wear the Blue Ridge Mountaineer uniform for the entirety of the camp. Pants should be long, earth-tone, and made of cotton, linen, or wool. Khakis or dockers are fine, but do not wear camouflage or jeans. Shorts are discouraged, and shorts and synthetic materials for clothing are a safety hazard at the forge, so are not allowed at all there. 

Personal gear to bring: 

• backpack, 

• canteen/water bottle, 

• small flashlight with extra batteries, 

• matches, 

• bandana, 

• two wool blankets or a sleeping bag (it can drop to 40°F some nights), 

• pair of leather gloves for cooking and working with wood tools (must be leather, not synthetic), 

• warm jacket, 

• pocket toiletry items, 

• two towels and washcloth, 

• shower shoes/sandals, 

• two pairs of earth tone long pants, 

• extra socks and underclothing, 

• one spare shirt, 

• pair brown or black hiking boots, 

• pair of spare shoes, 

• pocketknife, 

• swimsuit (for creek day), 

• wide leather belt to carry your camp knife, 

• early style broad-brimmed hat or scarf, 

• and spending money for the Tavern (recommended $100).

If you play a period-appropriate musical instrument such as a fiddle, harmonica, banjo, or guitar, you may bring it at your own risk.

Do not bring music players/speakers, firearms, sheath knives, or fireworks.