1st Blackwater Valley B-P Scout Group
With summer camp hurtling towards us, there is never a better time to remind ourselves how to construct the various canvases we use on our camps. From dining shelters to patrol tents. Every canvas has its quirks!
Fire is incredibly important to scouting. It is how we cook and how we keep warm. But there is an art to preparing and building a fire that will light easy and last for the time we need. These are skills best taught when you don’t need them, so when you do, nothing is new!
All our leaders regularly undertake training. This weekend it was Scout and Senior Scout leaders who were undertaking their second part of their Safety In The Hills training. Our GSM, who is a certified mountain leader, led this course and it covered the intricacies of hill walking for groups. It is an assessed course over two weekends. The first weekend is based on route planning and safety, the second weekend is undertaking the route and dynamically assessing the environment.
This evening the Beavers worked on their hand eye co-ordination by making Hama bead decorations.
This week the beavers were busy making their gingerbread houses which were fun to build and delicious to eat!
Pioneer & Mountford Troops enjoyed a nine day summer camp on farmland in the ancient Forest of Dean, during peaceful times this summer.
Caving at Pridhamsleigh Cavern on Saturday morning. Indoor wall climbing at Dart Rock Saturday afternoon. High tree ropes at the Rock Center Sunday morning with wind and sleet. Climbing on Tor in Dartmoor Sunday afternoon with sleet and wind. The Scouts arrived on Friday night and stayed that night and Saturday night in Great Hound Tor Camping Barn. The Scouts arrived back to the Scout Hut at 21:00 on Sunday evening.
Pioneer & Mountford Troops returned to a small farm owned by a Scotsman and his wife (Craig & Mary) in a very rural area of Pressignac in Southern France.
A fine summer’s evening on the water.
Over two weekends, our Seniors went flying in a light aircraft. These are the photos of us visiting Bembridge on the Isle of Wight for lunch before flying around The Needles and back home.
