Scout badges ... Pilgrim badges??

[David]

Hi - just had a nerdish thought (as you do) ... scouts and guides sew badges for all sorts of activities onto their clothing ..... was wondering what we would design for the Camino achievements ...
Only few I can think of so far are ...

1. Over the Pyrennees in one day survival badge
2. 30 pilgrim meals eaten achievement badge
3. No blisters for 500 miles crossed fingers badge
4. Slept for more than 5 hours achievement badge

Any ideas????

Here a pic of blouson and some outdoor badges ...

 

[Bradypus]

Pulpo cook?

 

[SYates]

What about a ditch pig batch? 5 rubbish bags filled and put in the dumpster, 10 rubbish bags filled, ... And so on.
BC SY

 

[Roland49]

How about...

... 1 bottle Red Wine every day badge
... municipal albergue only badge
... donativo albergue only badge
... Villafranca del Bierzo to Triacastela in one day badge
... helped 10 Pilgrims badge

 

[NorthernLight]

Badges for each of the Saints visited.

 

[Bimbo]

The badges, brings back Mrs Browns Boys and the youtube clip and badges. Adult content!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

David's First Aid badge has to have gold embroidery.

 

[williamlittig]

Donativo / Hospitalero / First aid given / 1000 real smiles / 5000 Thank you

 

[Derrybiketours]

Camino Love

 

[rappahannock_rev]

Meet your new trail buddy: Senor White Asparagus!



Camino scout patches may not be on the market yet, but small hat pins are ubiquitous. They weigh nothing, cost next to nothing, take up no space. I've picked up quite a few, over the years.....The problem with them is that you will want to pin them to your hat, and you will eventually lose your hat. I left my old hat and many of my hat pins on a bench near Artieda, on the Aragones, back in 2018.

 

[kelleymac]

Scouts have a 50 Mile Award here in the US-- Each pilgrim could get 10. Oh-- you have to do 10 hours of service along with the 50 miles walked!

 

[Moorwalker]

1 million "Buen Camino"

 

[alipilgrim]

Or a badge for each camino...

 

[Bradypus]

Or a badge for each camino...

 

[Turga]

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You could fill your backpack too...

 

[Deleted member 67185]

A big badge picturing a nose. . . . "I survived alburgue snoring without being grumpy". Perhaps that is one badge that would never be seen being worn by a pilgrim.

 

[David Tallan]

You could do badges for set numbers of caminos or set numbers of different camino routes walked, or different badges for the different camino routes, or badges for the different roles played in supporting pilgrims (volunteering at albergues, or different pilgrim offices, or as ditch pig or first aid person etc.), different season you walked in, milestones in number of total kms walked on Camino or milestones in number of kms walked on a single Camino (100, 800, 1000, 1500, or more for those walking from Switzerland or Poland or Germany), or there could be ones for bicigrinos. Another option is to think of the scouting badges that show that you have mastered certain skills rather than achieved certain milestones. So we could have :sleeping in dorms skill or walking with blisters or packing light, etc.

 

[Kathy F.]

Badges for each of the Saints visited.

The Saints that you visit, or the Saints who visit you??

 

[Camino Chrissy]

And for the true Introvert...
I survived Orrison.
I survived Granon.

(By the way, I've not stayed at either. I did stay at Guemes on the Norte and thoroughly enjoyed the experience!)

 

[Paul Wilson]

A big badge picturing a nose. . . . "I survived alburgue snoring without being grumpy". Perhaps that is one badge that would never be seen being worn by a pilgrim.

I don’t think you would see many of them, my 75yr old father in law managed 1 night in an albergue then we move to booking.com a mixture of others snoring and his tiny bladder dictating our accommodation