The basis of Venturing is to successfully plan and carry out activities that your Crew members are interested in doing.  Whether you are planning a weekend event, a day trip, or an annual high adventure trip, there is often a lot of work involved to help make the event a success, stay on budget, and accomplish the goals for the trip.

Have you ever found yourself at an activity and realized that you are unprepared simply because you forgot to bring your flashlight or a cook kit? We have added an assortment of equipment checklists that may help you on your way.  The lists have been compiled from a variety of resources, with substantial input from articles found in Backpacker magazine and are shared here for your reference.

Planning for meals as well as determining the best travel arrangements for your high adventure trip can also some very daunting tasks. How do you keep costs down? Is it best to travel by personal vehicle or is public transportation a viable option?

Also, be sure to remember the following very important items when planning any Venturing event:

• Adequate current adult leader training for basic and specialized activities.
• Current BSA physical form appropriate for activity.
• Touring permits

Guidelines on how to present Venturing Awards are very difficult to locate.  Many published Venturing resources do not even cover this subject and leave the planning up to the Advisors.  To help you, we have developed several simple templates to use as a guide to help plan your next Venturing Court of Honor or Venturing Awards Ceremony.

Please feel free to copy the files and modify or customize the program as you need to. Hopefully these will be a valuable help to your Crew's program.

If you like the files, have any ideas on how you think we can make these templates better, easier to use, find updated resources from national, or if you have ideas you would like to share, please contact us by sending an e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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High adventure can be found in many places all across the country... or even around the world. This "High Adventure" area is an ever expanding listing of different high adventure activities that your crew could consider.

We are looking to keep expanding this area of the website by adding more information as it is available.  Are you looking for OR does your crew have Information on high adventure activities?  Do you have some secret camping locations that are perfect for Venturing groups?  How about some detailed travel itineraries, travel methods, awesome things to see or do when traveling to a specific area.  How about passing on those invaluable lessons about activities and places to avoid so you don't make the same mistake as someone else.  Do you have some great contacts on who to contact for outfitting, guided trips, or places to stop along the way?

If you have information that you think could be added to this area, please write a detailed summary of any information and tips that you may have that would be beneficial to other crews planning their next high adventure activity.  Send it to us by e-mailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we'll list it here for all to use.

Are you preparing a training presentation for your crew, crew committees or a council wide Venturing training?  We hope that the materials here will provide some help.

Some of the information available:

- How to sign up for on-line training

- VLST (Venturing Leader Specific Training) Presentation Aids

- PDF Files

Expanding selection of Venturing and BSA Clip-Art Available for download. As more items become available we will add them here.  To download, select the category below to see a list of available images and formats. We have done our best at supplying the highest quality images.

Disclaimer: All images available in this section may be subject to copyright and usage policies established by the Boy Scouts of America.  We are providing these images as a helpful free resource to benefit the programs of the BSA, especially Venturing.  Items downloaded from this website are to be used exclusively for Scouting and Venturing as program materials to assist in furthering these programs. Use of these images for any other use then what has been described here is strictly prohibited.