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Bushwalking
Prior to participation in, and completing, a two-day bushwalking expedition demonstrate the following:
- The correct equipment to be taken and how it should be packed. Including: clothing, footwear, sleeping gear, food and water containers and wet and dry gear.
- How to pitch and strike a tent and fly, explain factors in choosing a tent site, and the correct care of a tent, fly sheet, poles and pegs during the journey and on return home.
- The planning of a menu, including quantities, for the expedition to achieve a well-balanced meal using lightweight components.
- Knowledge of fire precautions and restrictions and the correct way to extinguish a fire. Show how to light a fire in adverse conditions. Build and light a fire in the open and cook a sustaining, well-balanced meal on it. Show the correct method of rubbish disposal.
- How to tie, and show the practical use of, four knots or rescue devices chosen by the Unit from the Unit's activities.
- How to read a map and orient it by both compass and visible features.
- Be assessed in the above skills by the Expedition Leader
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First Aid
(To be completed before the bushwalking expedition).
- Be able to explain the major principles of casualty treatment.
- Demonstrate two of the following:
- treatment of hypothermia and hyperthermia.
- treatment of major bleeding.
- C.P.R.
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Award Scheme
Be able to explain the Award Scheme and list those activities which the Venturer Scout may choose to undertake to achieve the Queen's Scout Award.
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Approval of Unit Council
