Whitley Bay District had a survival camp last weekend. It went down really well with scouts of all ages learning knife, saw and axe skills, setting up cooking shelter, learning how to start fires to cook on and many more skills, like identification of plants/trees and fauna, and also how to work as a team. The scouts thoroughly enjoyed the weekend and i hope it can be arranged again. It topped off for me, when me and a friend built a natural shelter and slept out on the saturday night, testing my new army isuue gortex biviy bag, which was pure quality, as my friend had the cheap version and sweated. Cain
