| Pentland Hills Activity Day |
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The Troop held a joint activity in the Pentlands with Scouts from the 98th. The day consisted of a 11km hike through the hills and fog, which was broken up by several bases along the route.
Scouts learnt how to pitch a hike tent, brush up on their map skills, cook chocolate pudding on hike stoves, earn their Emergency Aid badge and discover the sport of geocaching. |
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| Aerial Assault Course |
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One Friday in June the Troop visited the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena at Ratho in order to test themselves over the Aerial Assault Course. The course hangs 100 feet above the ground and consists of several challenging obstacles.
All our Scouts held their nerves and managed to successfully complete the course.
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| Eagles, Wolves & Stags Patrol Camp 09 |
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The Eagles, Wolves and Stags held their Patrol Camp at Bonaly, where the took part in the Bonaly Camping Challenge. This event invited patrols from all over the city to attend and learn some new Scouting skills.
The Scouts took part in pioneering, backwoods cooking, fire lighting amongst other activities. At the end of the camp all the Scouts were awarded the Bonaly Camping Challenge Bronze Award.
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| Panthers & Kestrels Patrol Camp 09 |
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The Panther and Kestrels held a successful joint Patrol Camp at Fordell Firs, where they participated in activities such as Jacob’s Ladder, Climbing and Sumo.
Well done to Andrew and Rory for organising the event.
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| Water Sports Evening |
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The last Friday of May, saw the Troop head to Port Edgar to allow our Scouts to try their sea legs. Scouts had the chance to try kayaking or sailing on what turned out to be a wonderful evening. |
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| Wild Wild West Camp 09 |
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Wild Wild West themed camp was held at The Craigs in Torphichen at the end of May. 14 Scouts enjoyed the warm summer weather, as they camped in authentic Sioux Teepees and competed in wild west themed competitions.
Activities such as archery, fire lighting, tracking and panning for gold were undertaken as well as several wide games.
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| District Flag 09 |
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A Patrol of Scouts from the Troop took part in the first ever Pentland District Flag camping competition. They competed in a wide range of scouting disciplins inorder to earn points in the competition.
After all the points had been tallied the 107th Patrol came 3rd. Well done to the Scouts who took part in the competition.
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| District Flag Training Event |
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The Troop took our District Flag team to Fordell Firs for a weekend of Scout skills training in preparation for the upcoming District Flag camping competition. The Scouts took part in backwoods cooking, where they prepared their lunch of sausages, rainbow trout and chocolate bananas. They also did firelighting, first aid, team building, mapping and orienteering. According to the local weather station, the temperature overnight droped to minus two.
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| Brass Monkey Camp 09 |
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A cold weekend in January, what better time to go camping. Seven of our Scouts and three young leaders agreed with me, so we booked our places at the Brass Monkey Camp being held at Bonaly Scout Camp.
The Scouts enjoyed an active programme which included lots of team building activities, wide games and a screening of the Italian Job. As night fell, the temperature dropped and ice began to coat the tents. Fortunately, the Scouts survied the icy conditions and carried on with the programme.
For those Scouts who were attending their first Scout Camp, I can safely say that there won't be many colder during your time with the Troop.
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| Campsie Challenge & Lunar Challenge |
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This year the Troop sent Scouts off to compete in the Campsie Challenge, which is a national hiking competition. This year event was held at Auchengillan Outdoor Centre a few miles north of Glasgow. Our team of 3 Scouts took part in the Challenge finishing in 2nd.
On the Saturday night a team of our Scouts competed in the Lunar Challenge, an incident based night hike. They blitz through the course and finished in 1st place.
Congratulations to all those who took part.
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| Night Hike 2008 |
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During the night of the 19th of September, the Troop held its first night hike for number of years. After taking the bus to the start point after our regular Scout Meeting, we began on our journey through the Pentland Hills.
We followed a route of around 12km through Maiden's Cleugh, where we stopped to make some hot chocolate on our trangia, and over to Bonaly. After walking for 5 hours the Scouts finally arrived back at the hall at 4.30am.
Well done for taking the challenge.
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| PL Expedition 2008 |
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During the weekend of the 6th and 7th of September four of the Troops Patrol Leaders attempted the Expedition Challenge. Over two days they hiked around 26km, following a route through the Pentland Hills and along the Water of Leith, staying at Bonaly over night.
The Scouts tried various navigational methods during the expedition from maps and compass to GPS. Well done for completing the expedition. |
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| Great Tower - 26/7/2006 to 2/8/2006 |
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This year’s Summer Camp was held at Great Tower, near the town of Windermere. A total of 15 Scouts, 3 Explorer Scouts and 3 leaders attended the event.
The theme for the event was The Legend of Zelda. There were three patrols, competing for the Summer Camp Trophy.
The weather was mixed with both sunshine and rain, however, the Troop was able to run an active programme.
The troop participated in a variety of activities, including tree climbing, rifle shooting, tackling the assault course and canoeing on Lake Windermere. We were even treated to a steel drum band during the Campsites 'Start of Summer Celebration'.
The Patrol competition was hotly contested by all of the patrols and each patrol came out on top on at least one individual day. Overall, the competition winners were Kokiri Forest, comprising of Daniel M, Alexander C, Michael R, Andrew M and Gordon M. However, both Outset Island and Ordon Ranch provided stiff opposition and should be congratulated for their efforts. Well done to Kokiri Forest. |
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