Outdoor Leader Skills (OLS)

Mecklenburg County Council · Scouting America

Outdoor Leader Skills (OLS)

This is a fun-filled program of hands-on skills training in the outdoors, designed to help Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters to master and teach the basic camping skills required for Tenderfoot to First Class. This Course is required for Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters to receive the Trained Patch and attend Wood Badge. Instructors will help you learn how to set up camp, cook, work with woods tools, learn about ropes, planning campfire programs, map reading and compass skills, hiking, and packing techniques, nature identification, and Outdoor Ethics.

Per National Training guidelines, you must attend all modules of the course in order to achieve credit for the training.  Since the course runs in parallel to MCC’s SEALS course, there is not the opportunity to leave the iOLS course to view any portion of the SEALS program.

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Register NOW for the Next Course 11/14/2026 – 11/15/2026

Registration closes 11/8/2026 11:59PM

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File Name             Description
OLS Flyer   Download
OLS Participant Guide   Download

  • Special Training Requests

  • The Mecklenburg County Council training committee will conduct training on a special request basis. The policy for providing training varies based on the course requested. Special request courses will not be available within two weeks prior to or after a council or district course offering, and within 4 weeks prior or after Scouter Success Seminar. The requesting organization is responsible for providing a minimum number of participants, facilities suitable for training and agrees to make the training available to others outside of their organization. Please make special training requests to your District Training Chair.