Beaver Scout News Hi i’m Spike , I would like to wish everyone a very happy 2013. We have just finished our backwoods adventure Skill level 1 badge. It was a very exciting 5 weeks and I learned a lot of stuff. On the first week to enter the den we had to crawl through a tunnel made of branches. We were going to be doing backwoods. We learned that backwoods is all about being able to survive in the wilderness. In order to survive you need to have something to drink, something to eat and some shelter.
I wore a tracksuit with a long sleeved t-shirt underneath it. I also had on a pair of boots and had a pair of gloves and a woolly hat. Oh yes and my neckerchief. At the start of the next meeting we had two scouts with our lodge and we were brought to the woods behind the de . Our first task was to collect some firewood , we were shown what type of wood to collect . We were not allowed to damage trees but to collect twigs that had fallen off. When we got back the scouts separated the wood into 3 piles starting with very small twigs( about the size of a nail ). The second pile was about the size of a marker and building up to a pile
The first game we played was a relay race . There were about 40 items on a table and we had to run to the table , select something that we could use in a survival kit and race back , the first lodge that had an item each was the winner. Our second task was to hold a log chew in our lodges and using the items collected in the game select them in order of importance to survival. We finished the meeting with a colony log chew , the Elders explained what Backwoods Skills were all about and we gave suggestions as to what we would like to do. I wanted to go hiking and stay out overnight in a shelter . I was told that I might get to do this in Cubs , but that I would learn the skills to be able to do it. I was very excited. For our next meeting we were asked to wear some warm clothes and also make sure that it wouldn’t matter if they got dirty. What I heard was “we are going outside and we are going to get dirty”.
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