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The challenge - to pass the Survival Skills
Badge:
Take part in a survival exercise lasting about
24 hours: construct a shelter of natural or salvaged materials and
sleep in it; cook all meals over an open fire; cook without utensils
or aluminium foil; demonstrate methods of finding direction by day or
night without a compass
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First job, making the bivouacs.
Finding a suitable tree with a low overhanging branch was a good
start. From there other sticks could be built up and
covered with ferns.
There was plenty of time for
games as well. |
