Oct 19 2021
Chapman’s Peak Chapman’s Peak is always a nice hike. This was my second time hiking the route, and the weather was excellent. Many great conversations were held, with the most baffling being about the pointless gabions which lie scattered around below the peak. The views didn’t disappoint either, with a clear 360° view of the …
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Oct 19 2021
If you read through all the great articles in this edition of Smoke Signals, you’ll see how 1st Claremont Scout Group is really booming these days. If you look back 10+ years, we had under 10 Scouts at meetings and no Cub Pack. We recovered through hard work, recruitment, and strong long-term planning, with support …
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Oct 19 2021
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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Why do we have to plan and report? Planning prevents poor performance Planning and reporting is how you run successful activities in scouts and how you improvise a successful one to be more successful or find out what went wrong with an unsuccessful one. The process of putting your plan and report on paper gives …
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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
On the 6th of February 1st Claremont had one of their first hikes in over six months. It started at Rhodes Memorial and finally ended at the top parking lot at Kirstenbosch. It was a fun yet exhausting experience as most of us hadn’t exercised much over lockdown and weren’t as fit as we liked …
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Nov 04 2020
One of the requirements for my Discoverer was to organise a hike of at least 10km. It was my first time doing this. We started in the Constantia Nek parking lot early on a Sunday morning, and followed the jeep track up Table Mountain. We chose to take the steep stairs at the beginning of …
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Nov 04 2020
On the 12th of September Holly, Rozanna, Ryan and I hiked up Table Mountain via the jeep track to do a 10km hike. This was our first hike since lockdown, our first patrol hike of the year and our first hike without scouters, so it was a pretty big day. Since it was at least …
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