Friday May 1st - Sunday May 3rd
Eighteen Scouts spent the weekend at Crow Camp. The plan for the weekend was to cover as much of the Outdoor Challenge as possible. However, it’s really difficult for our leaders to spend a weekend at Crow Camp and not build a ridiculously precarious looking Areal Runway.
The runway may look dangerous, but safety is taken very seriously. Everything is carefully constructed a specific way using specific components and when finished the whole setup is tested with heavy tanks of water before finally a human test pilot is selected. Even then we conduct safety briefings at the top and bottom of the runway for those riding and operating the runway.
Twelve Scouts and a couple of leaders would work together to pull a Scout up the runway whilst two more manned the backup emergency break at the bottom of the runway.
When we weren't sliding down the rope on a wooden seat, we were collecting enough wood to cook pot roast chicken. This was the task for the evening. Steaming the chicken for 90 minutes, regularly monitoring water levels and topping up when necessary.
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