Balfron Scouts

Meggernie Camp 2018

Our annual trip to Meggernie was a great success again this year, with about 40 Cubs and Scouts taking over one of the fields. We had loads of activities and plenty of time for running around, relaxing and of course lots of great food from our expert chefs. I'm sure we'll be back very soon.

As well as the photos below, you can see more photos of the activities we did by following these links

Oh and you can see our lost property haul here.

Weeds

The Scouts' favourite game is probably weeds at the moment. It's a simple game but mainly ends up with everyone's shoes being strewn across the hall.

Scouts Expedition Challenge

Last weekend six of our Scouts set off to complete their expedition challenge. They had planned it all themselves and had given themselves a long walk to start things off, you can just see them reaching the top on the Conic Hill path if you look very closely in the photo below.

They set up their own camp, cooked all their own food and even managed to find and set up some geocaches on the way.

They're already planning their next trip.

Building Bridges

The new term started for the Scouts with some pioneering and building bridges across the mighty torrent that is the old mill race. This version of the bridge held the whole troop!

Viking rafts

A couple of weeks ago the Scouts were challenged to create mini viking fire rafts. They had to use just natural resources that they could find (except for a flint and steel for lighting the fire) to build a floating raft that would hold a mini-bonfire. As you can see, they were very successful...even if the odd foot/leg/whole scout got a bit wet in the attempt.

Cubs go to Barrwood

This weekend the Cubs went to Barrwood for the weekend and here are a few photos of what they got up to.

There was a lot of cooking and chatting around the fire...then some great knot-work to make stretchers to carry the injured around...and they also got the canoes out and had some fun on the water.

Finally they made some great clay monsters using natural materials they found around the camp.

Everyone had a great time and a lot of tired and slightly mucky cubs came home today.