1st Claremont entered four teams for orienteering this year which was held at a wine farm near Franschoek. The four teams were: Orienteering is running around following a map to look for checkpoints and involves running through bushes, streams, and up over hills. It’s generally very fun. The aim of it is to find control …
Category: Skills
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Apr 04 2024
Pioneering Scoutcraft
This year’s first Pioneering Scoutcraft course of the year was run at the 1st Claremont scout hall base with about 40 scouts from various different troops in the region. This is a fairly large turn out for a course, but it’s great to see that there are so many scouts trying to pass off a …
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Dec 28 2021
Mackenzie survives at Hawequas
The course taught us how to survive in the wild and build shelters. We learned the four basic needs of survival, how to start a fire with flint and steel, different ways to start a fire without matches, the things you need in a small and big survival kit, how to build a weatherproof shelter, …
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Oct 19 2021
Meerkats camp “under the sea”
On the weekend of 9-10 October, our Meerkats took up a national challenge to go camping “under the sea”. Along with 119 Meerkats countrywide, they involved their families in an overnight camp at home with many exciting activities in between and regular meet-ups on Zoom. For half of our Den, this was their second camp. …
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Oct 19 2021
Tim takes a team orienteering
Going into the competition I had no idea what I was in for as it was my first orienteering competition. Although I had done map work and had taken bearings before during my years at scouts, I still didn’t know what we were going to need to do in this competition. We arrived at the …
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First Class Camp – Planning
It is important to plan your camp properly. There are two reasons for this: It is important that activities that you are responsible for are planned. If you do not have a plan your camp will not run well and you will not meet your objectives in running that camp. This is the opportunity to …
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Mar 24 2021
Cubs clean up the Liesbeek
In February a group of Cubs and parents took part in the monthly river cleanup with Friends of the Liesbeek near the River Club. This was part of the #BetterWorldForBP challenge where each Cub was challenged to collect one bag of refuse during February.
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Mar 24 2021
Swifts build a swing bridge
By Ethan Gilham On 21 February, Swifts had their first activity of the term. We were going to be building a swing bridge which we would take turns using once completed! For the bridge, we used square lashings and holdfasts. The holdfasts are to make sure the main pole wouldn’t fall over with the extra …
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