Autumn is now officially with us and the dark nights will soon be starting earlier! The Scout Group therefore made an effort to get a couple more camps under its belt during the tail end of summer.
First of all was a camp, held locally at 'Scoutswood' purely for Scout,s as they had missed out on the trip to Sweden, and which concentrated on achieving the backwoods badge. This involved shelter building, rabbit skinning, gutting and cooking, lashing a platform to a tree, direction finding using the sun etc.
Soon afterwards the whole group took part in the Area event of the Elders Shield and Challenge Hike. We fielded the largest numbers of any groups from within the Northumbria area! One of our Scout teams won the award for effort and one of our Seniors was part of the winning Senior team. Not bad for our first Area event!
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