KidsOutdoors

12 Scouts and 5 leaders braved the torrential downpours and thunderstorms and spent two nights and three days camping in the woods at Westfield with only the bare essentials.

No tents, No toilets, No utensils, No comforts  and definitely No mums!

The camp that took place over the bank holiday was a complete survival camp teaching skills such as skinning rabbits, gutting fish, making a compass, setting traps, foraging for food, building and sleeping in your own shelter and cooking all food on an open fire with no pots, pans or utensils.

The Scouts all did fantastically well and worked really hard building their shelters which held up to the thunderstorm apart from a few drips on the head! When they arrived on the Monday they were given instant pasta pot and a yogurt for their first meal and had to keep the containers as their plate and cup for the rest of the camp, and as they'll all tell you its pretty hard to drink hot chocolate from a yogurt pot!

They all learnt how important it was to keep the fire stoked up and the wood pile, and have all become experts in making pegs out of wood to keep their guy lines pulled out, although their fingers took a battering from cuts and slices in the process, i think we went through an entire box of plasters in three days!!! For some of the Scouts it was their first camp having just come up from cubs so they definitely proved they can hack it with the older Scouts, and every single Scout on the camp has now earned their Survival Skills Activity badge.

Well done to all of them and thank you to the awesome leader team for their organisation and help over the camp.