Driving us up the wall!

The climbing wall is always a popular evening.  This year 3 more scouts invested while clinging to the wall one handed while making the Scout sign and making their promise.

Thanks to Mr Y for the photos.

Fire lighting, or making a pile of sticks and showing it a match!

Well, 2 weeks ago we had a camp and everyone that was there made a lit a fire with a maximum of 2 matches.  Last night we did the same again at Scouts.  Total fires lit last night, ZERO!

Lessons learnt?  Well, when it is warm and sheltered and you have lots of time and concentrate it is easy.  When it is cold, a little windy and you don't do it properly, not so easy.  And when would it be more important to be able to make a fire?  When it is cold and windy!  Better get some practice in.

Oh well, everyone (that remembered to bring a coat) had fun trying and we played plenty of games to warm everyone up afterwards.

Rough Close Camp

Sorry for the delay, but here are a few photos of the camp at Rough Close with Cubs and Scouts. We had a 5 mile hike on Saturday with a bit of treasure hunt and questions thrown in, then we made bivouacs and had a sing song around the camp fire.  On Sunday there were para-cord bracelets, whittling and fire lighting.