Outdoor Plus Challenge
Complete the requirements below:
- Plan and carry out a lightweight expedition over 24 hours with friends of a similar age.
- Camp a total of 12 nights as a Scout.
- Cook for a day without utensils.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of emergency procedures for adventurous activities including the recognition and treatment of hypothermia, the performance of mouth-to-mouth ventilation, treatment of bleeding and treatment of fractures.
- Be able to use, maintain and instruct in the safe use of different types of stoves and lamps and cook an expedition meal on a suitable stove.
- Take a leading part in a pioneering project which demonstrates the correct use of at least two types of lashings.
- Complete any one of the following:
- Make a camp oven and use it.
- Identify the basic types of clouds, explain how they are formed, how wind speed is measured and how the weather can limit various adventurous activities.
