Days spent outside
Camp La La Palouse-a is a summer camp in the Idaho Palouse, with meadows, a pond and tall pines all around. Campers spend their days outdoors, learning real skills, making real things and earning merit badges along the way.
Welcome to camp
Merit badges
Every activity counts
There are five badges to earn. Finish the activities a badge asks for and it's yours.
Earn your merit badges
Nature
Three activities from: Building Earth, a papier-mâché globe; Days & Seasons, on time zones, the solstice and why the sun is up so early; a Bird Feeder; Constellations; and Plant ID.
Survival Skills
Four activities from: CPR; Basic First Aid, to stabilize a break, stop bleeding and call for help; Knot Tying; Firewood Gathering, driving with a trailer; Changing a Flat; Compass Orienting; and the Compass Treasure Hunt.
Arts
Four activities from: Daily Camp Songs; Friendship Bracelets; Kintsugi; Hosting your own talk show; Photography 101, 201 and 301; and the Fashion Show, to show off the garment you made in sewing.
Marksmanship
Two activities from: Archery, with safe archery skills; Shooting Safety; and Shooting, with a slingshot, BB rifle or 9mm pistol and safe technique.
Homesteading
Four activities from: Campfire Cooking with Tom; Dough 101, the basics of bread; Mud Oven Fire and Mud Oven Baking, wood-fired; Raised Bed Garden Building; Sewing 101 and 201; and the Solar Water Project, pumping water with solar power.
Long projects
Build something real
Long projects give campers time for the bigger builds, like a raised bed garden made from logs beside the pond, a mud oven for wood-fired baking, and pumping water with solar power.
KP duty
Everyone pitches in
Campers help out in the camp kitchen, and learn to cook over a campfire and bake bread in the mud oven.
A day at camp
Days have a rhythm, with time to learn, time to build and time to just be outside.
Activities
Short sessions through the day, each one a step toward a merit badge.
Long projects
Deep-focus time for the bigger builds, like the raised bed garden and the mud oven.
KP duty
Everyone pitches in at the camp kitchen.
All-camp meet-up
The whole camp comes together, with daily camp songs.
La La Live!
Camp's own talk show, hosted by the campers.
Campfire
The day winds down around the fire.
All together
The whole camp, every day
Each day the whole camp comes together for the all-camp meet-up and daily camp songs, and the day winds down around the campfire.
Getting ready for camp?
Here's everything to bring, from socks to sunscreen.