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Summer Camp Monday

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Summer Camp Monday

The leaders agreed that they had a really great bunch of Scouts and Explorers at camp this year so they had to come up with a suitable challenge. Today the Scouts went on an adventure trek up Grisedale Pike and Continue reading →

Summer Camp Sunday

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Summer Camp Sunday

We woke to rain this morning, and the mountain weather forecast didn’t look great, so we switched some things around a bit. We had planned to go to Black Moss Pot but it seemed more appropriate to do archery and Continue reading →

Summer Camp Saturday 

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Summer Camp Saturday 

We arrived safely at the campsite after a pleasant trip over listening to everyone’s music choices. The weather was really kind to us,while we put the tents up, and things were sorted in no time at all.  After Continue reading →

Den Building Adventure

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Den Building Adventure

Had a wild time at WWT  Washington recently, we did den building in the woods.  It wasn’t quite what I expected as they had us using  tarpaulin and fabric to cover the dens and I wrongly assumed Continue reading →

Water bombing catapults

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Water bombing catapults

Wolves and Bears made catapults this week with the aim of firing water bombs at each other…. it didn’t quite work out that way though.  They tried very hard with the catapults and the cubs eventually managed to get Continue reading →

Wolves and bears make Fire!!

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Wolves and bears make Fire!!

Really fun couple of nights with the cubs. We have done fire lighting and backwoods cooking this week. Its fantastic because the kids are all so enthusiastic and dying to have a go, it reminds me why iscout!

We did Continue reading →

CUBS ADVENTURE DAY

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CUBS ADVENTURE DAY

This Saturday was spent at Moor House with 800 other Cubs from around the district on our Cubs Adventure Day.  We aren’t doing Cubboree this year because next year is the Cubs Centenary so we will be doing a Continue reading →

Navigation

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Navigation

We started the navigators badge this week with  teaching the cubs how to find eight points of the compass and how to use a compass to find out which direction they should be going, how to read a four Continue reading →