Posted by Admin | Posted in 2nd Scouts, 47th Scouts, 6th Scouts | Posted on 09-04-2014
For those Scouts who are on their section teams for this weekends County Survival Challenge in Fota Scout Centre please find below the gear list and timetable of events
Any other questions please contact your section leaders
2nd Cork – Tim – timcalvert@douglasscouts.ie
6th Cork – John – johncleary@douglasscouts.ie
47th Cork – Sean – seancarroll@douglasscouts.ie
Douglas & St. FinBarres are entering 4 teams this year which is a great achievement
- Check in is at 7pm on Friday night
- Each team will be responsibile for their own food (discussed with and arranged by your section leader)
- Teams will be checked on Friday night to ensure they have a supper on Friday and Saturday night
- Teams should know how to make a Latvian Log
- As with last year the teams will be leaving site and travelling by train to various bases around Cobh and its surroundings, they will not have a leader with them at all times.
- Each team needs to have a mobile phone, fully charged and with credit that they can take with them when leaving site. The number of this phone will be taken by the organisers at check-in
- Each team should have either a phone with a camera or a digital camera
Gear List Per Team
- Bivvy Bag (bring your own please or a decent refuse black bag as a subistitue)
- Tarp for a shelter for the team (Group will supply)
- Axe & Saw (Group will supply)
- Flint & Steel (Group will supply but bring your own if you have them)
- Metal Mug (bring your own please)
- Carboard Egg Carton (Group will supply)
- Sisal (Group will supply)
- Pen Knife for each member (bring your own please)
- High Vis Vest (bring your own please)
- First Aid Kit (Group will supply)
- Frying Pan (Group will supply)
- Compass (Group will supply but bring your own if you have one)
- All of the above along with standard gear for a camping overnight weekend
i.e. Change of clothes, torch, personal wash gear, spare socks/underwear. Good hiking/walking shoes, raingear
TimeTable
Friday
19:00 – Check In and pitch tents
20:00 – Opening Ceremony
survivial activities
23:00 – Supper
23:30 – Lights Out
Saturday
07:30 – Breakfast, site clean up, inspection, lunch prep, food check
08:30 – Shelter Building
09:45- Team Assembly
Survival Activties
18:00 – Dinner
19:00 – Shelter Building
21:00 – Sketches
22:00 – Campfire
23:30 – Supper and Lights Out
Sunday
08:00 – Breakfast, site clean up, inspection, lunch prep, food check
09:30 – FUN Base
11:30 – Drop site
13:00 – Closing Ceremony
Regarding collecting; There will be a one-way system in operation entering through the wildlife park entrance and exiting through the green gate/scout centre entrance. Please keep this in mind when getting parents are collecting Socuts. Car Pool where possible
Yours In Scouting,
Tim, John & Sean