Safety Activity Checkpoints

Complementing Volunteer Essentials: Safety-Wise, River Valleys has created checkpoints for common scouting activities. Contact River Valleys for any activity that does not have a checkpoint document yet.

Water Sports

• Canoeing
• Fishing
• Ice Fishing
• Kayaking
• Row-boating
• Sailing
• Scuba Diving
• Snorkeling
• Surfing
• Swimming
• Tubing
• Waterskiing and Wakeboarding
• White-Water Rafting
• Windsurfing
• Aquatic Area Safety and Emergency Procedures

Camping

• Backpacking 
• Group Camping 
• Hiking 
• Orienteering 
• Outdoor Cooking
• Trip/Travel Camping

Land Sports

• Archery
• Bicycling
• Caving
• Challenge Courses
• Climbing and Rappelling
• Cross-Country Skiing
• Downhill Skiing and Snowboarding
• Fencing
• Geocaching
• Horseback Riding
• Ice Skating
• In-Line Skating and Roller Skating
• Other Land Sports
• Segway
• Skateboarding
• Sledding, Tobogganing and Snow Tubing
• Snowshoeing

Other Activities

• Arts and Crafts
• Computer/Online Use
• Cookie Program Activity
• Hayrides
• Parades and Large Group Gatherings
• Playgrounds
• STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology and Math)
• Theme Parks