
Moonlight Hike
Another weekend, another scout camp. This time it was a new one - a moonlight hike. This year, Scouting Ireland released a limited edition “Moonlight Hike�? badge to promote youth members hiking at night. This weekend, the scouts were going to be based out of Larch Hill, Scouting Ireland’s headquarters and our home away from home. To mix things up a bit, it was decided that we would stay in the chicken huts, two backwoods style wooden huts, and cook, backwoods style, on open

Cubs do backwoods
We had planned a backwoods day with the Cubs and the day finally arrived. We rocked up to the Fingal Field/Campsite formerly known as Bog of the Ring with 15 cub scouts and four scouters. We had been keeping a close eye on the weather forecast. Rain was forecast but not till the afternoon. We quickly got to work getting some form of shelter up for our gear. Martin showed the kids how to throw up our make shift shelter whilst the kids took all the gear from our cars and place