The scout section were up early (relative to most teenagers) on Saturday morning to meet up in Turvey woods for a 24 Hour Backwoods Challenge. We have been working on our backwoods skills over the past 3 weeks at our Thursday night meetings and it was now time to put these skills to the test. Sean had bought the food and Brendan had brought the gear. It was all loaded and taken to the site as the scouts walked the 20 mins or so to the woods from the car park. We had 3 new sc

We had been looking forward to our first proper outing with our Cubs for the new 2019/2020 cub year. A Pioneering/Backwoods Day. However disaster struck the morning before the day itself, due to heavy rainfall the campsite we were going to spend our day in was unusable. No panic as such but certainly a rush of brainstorming suggestions amongst the scouters for a new venue as we didn’t want to let the kids down. We settled on Larch Hill very quickly. Phew! We arrived at Larch