Boy Scout camping has really come a long way from when I was a scout in the middle 60's. We used to snow camp in Northern California. Back then we could chop small pine trees to build lean to's, dig pits for a common latrine. We were not allowed to carry lighters etc. We made our own frame packs and used ruc sacs and heavy sleeping bags. For food we carried a hamburger/potatoe meatloaf in foil that we would put in the fire. What sucked was that the scoutmaster and his assistant would show up with all the modern conviences and grill duck or quail and who knows what else they had in their arsenal.
It taught me alot and after a couple of years, I left the scouts to solo camp.