Last week 42 scouts and adults from Chapman, Swift and Seal Scout Troops made their way across the country side to converge back on the Scout Hut Mill Lane.
The navigational challenges varied between groups with some routes being easier than others, but all of them made it back to the hut in time for cake and custard!
Continue reading September Night HikeEight groups of scouts went out exploring on Friday evening, with a night navigation hike from locations across the district to Sevenoaks Weald.
Walking parties from 10th Sevenoaks (Weald), 9th Sevenoaks (Seal) and both Chapman and Swift troops from the 4th set out from locations stretching from Westerham to Shipbourne and navigated their way to the scout hut in Sevenoaks Weald.
Seventeen of our scouts were joined by one from Seal to enter this year’s Plender Hike – our biannual district incident hike.
This time it was hosted by Westerham Scouts in the hills above the town. The teams navigated from base to base undertaking challenges at each one.
By the end of the evening they had
All while hiking for eight miles!
We finished the hike at Waylands Scout Campsite, where everyone camped
Photos are somewhat limited as our leaders we out on a base, but here are a selection that we did manage to take..
We are delighted to say that our teams finished first, second and tenth. Well done!
Five teams of scouts navigated their way to a cookout on Friday.
Teams started from Weald, Bough Beech, Toys Hill, Sundridge and Dibden and made their way towards Ide Hill
Our intrepid scouts all managed to sniff out the campfire and arrived in time to cook their treat. Scouts brought a good range of things – we had kebabs, burgers, sausages and even a chocolate banana
Continue reading Cookout HikeScouts from the 4th (St John’s), 9th (Seal) and 15th (Otford) went on a night-hike on Friday.
45 Scouts in seven separate groups spent the evening walking the footpaths of Otford and Shoreham on a night-time navigation exercise. Despite the weather trying its best to discourage everyone, they all set early on Friday evening.
Scout teams walked one of two courses, and each course could be clockwise or anti-clockwise, and with or without a leader. We also had a secondary start point at Shoreham Station to give us some more capacity
The main course included Otford, Romney Street, Shoreham. The other one was a little flatter that missed out Romney Street but went further towards Farningham.
All of the navigation was done by the scouts, although the groups with leaders did have someone on hand to make sure decisions were actually being taken an scouts weren’t ‘just following the path’.
The scouts did really well. All the groups finished, although we did have a couple mid-course retirements and one of our (unaccompanied) groups showed itself to be ‘navigationally challenged’ (compare to the actual routes at the top of the post). In the end they walked further than anyone else!
Some of our scouts had a mid-hike sing-song
The night finished with a hot-dog (or two), a mug of hot chocolate and a cookie before bed. 🌭☕🍪🛌💤
