Awesomness on la beach ! :)

Hi guys!!! here is a video of the awesome D of E expedition on the beach!!! how cool?!?! AND WET :O  ~ Evie xx

stroll along the beach

OK so you've done your planning (we'd better hope?!) - here's my bit!

Please bring all the kit in your rucksack and the consent forms as usual.

Foreign Parts...

This time it's for real! You need to plan your route or you won't get to the overnight camp... 

We have booked the camping for a practice expedition to west Wales on 26-27 Oct and need to sit down and sort it out! There are 5 that have said they are going so you should definatly be keen that the planning is done right - the others... you need to know what needs doing to plan an expedition so it would be worthwhile coming to Thursday's expedition planning session. 


Several of you are helping with Drum Corps and cubs before hand, finishing at 7:15 and then the cubs are in the hut until about 8:00. Rather than hang around, I suggest we meet at my house 7:30-9:00 (more reasonable finish time too...) and we will have access to internet, online map store, drink and snacks, music, printers... just easier for planning. I'll do a ring round anyway to see who is coming but hope to see you all tomorrow. 

SHADOW

We need the form tomorrow when you arrive at Andy's house.

micro navigation

OK the night nav exercise was a bit shorter as some explorers failed to navigate to PGL in time for the start but toured the wastes of Stanwardine and Wykey, but they made it there in the end! We did do some micro navigation techniques to remember: tick off lists, timing cards, pace counting, aiming off, and the fall of the land...
Here we are setting virtual trip lines to trip up the cars coming into PGL after having successfully navigated 100m in a straight line...(well its a start...)

The techniques actually came in useful on Snowdon as the visibility wasn't great at times and it was a new route!

Rifle Champs camp forms

There's lots of forms for this one, so I've put them on the scout blog - the explorer team need to fill out the same ones and you can get them here

Night Nav

Night nav practice tonight! Its easier with a head torch!!! Also bring a compass if you have one and emergency rations...