Category: Activities

The Cotswold marathon is an annual night hike event for scouts and explorers over three routes, 10, 20 and 30 miles.
This year Tuesday Scouts have a team of three entered into the Bronze event (10 miles).
Sunday they had their second practise walk over the first 5 miles of the route in daylight, and a challenging climb up Robins Wood hill, followed by the climb to Painswick Beacon.
They have two more practise hikes, the second 5 miles in daylight then an evening hike of around 7 miles of the route before the event in early February.

More details on the event at https://cotswoldmarathon.org.uk/

Well done to our Cubs and Scouts teams that took part in the District Incident Hike.

The Cubs had to navigate the 4.5km route taking it in turns to lead the way using their map skills. At various checkpoints they then had to complete tasks using their problem solving skills and scouting knowledge.

The Scouts had a similar course with tasks, but over a 6km course and in the dark! Everyone completed the event and solved all the tasks to finish with a hot chocolate and hot dog. Well done everyone.

Thanks to all our volunteers that helped walk with the teams and also sit in the woods on their own for hours running the checkpoints and challenges. A Special thanks to Gareth for organizing the event.

Thanks to all that attended the AGM and congratulations to all those below that received awards presented by Martin Williams representing the District Commissioner.

From left to right:
Ang Healy – 2 Wood Badges
Diane Ruck – Award of Merit
Steve Crick – Award of Merit
also, unable to attend but awards for Tracy Lashford, 10 Year Certificate and Award of Merit.

Well done to all of you and thanks for all the work you do with the Group.