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Welcome to The Senior Scout Adventure Website.
January 2012
Advertising brochures have been distributed to the Provinces and are also available as a download, please click here for a copy.
Adventure entries are made through the online application system which opens on 1 April 2012.
When and where is the Adventure
The next adventure is to be held in the Cederberg Mountains from 10 December 2012 to 22 December 2012.
Who may participate
Scout Patrols where all Scouts are over the age of 15 (barring very exceptional circumstances) but not yet turned 18 at the start of the Adventure, qualify to enter. Scouter Patrols where all adults are over the age of 18 are welcome to enter too.
What is the cost?
Participants
The cost of the 2012 adventure is R3000.
A deposit of R1200 is required 31 July 2012 and the balance of R1800 on 30 September 2012.
Non South Africans are to refer to theWOSM fee structure.
The Heritage Team have posted some interesting facts on previous Adventures. Clickhere for a trip into the past.
The Adventure:
The Adventure programme provides unforgettable adventure and fun in the
famous backpacking country of the Cederberg Wilderness Area along
rugged, rocky trails. Programme features combine the best of advanced
Scouting to provide you with fun and a real challenge - water activities, rock
climbing, the ultimate challenge game, underwater diving, sailing, and many more! This is an unbeatable recipe for fast-moving
enjoyment and action.
If you are a senior Scout, 15 years or older, and you are looking for high
adventure and an outdoor challenge in a famous mountain wilderness, then
the SENIOR SCOUT ADVENTURE in December has been designed for you!
Come and experience the feeling of adventure and achievement backpacking
and climbing in a vast unspoilt wilderness well known for its unique features
like the Wolfberg Cracks, the Wolfberg Arch, and the Maltese Cross. Enjoy
the soaring peaks like the Tafelberg, Groot Krakadouw and the Sneeuberg
with their cliffs, pinnacles, ravines and valleys. When hiking along the high
trails, thrill to the eye-stretching sweep of the peaks marching into the blue
haze of distance.
On the first day, the Patrols assemble at Camping HQ. Here they draw trail
rations, meet other Patrols, and prepare for their trips. Thereafter, each
Patrol follows a hiking itinerary that takes it backpacking for 10 days along
trails and across mountains - camping on the trail or at Activity Centres,
climbing peaks, swimming - to reach the various Activity Centres and to
participate in their programmes. On the eve of the last day, all Patrols reassemble
at Camping HQ for the final Camp Fire before departure the next
day.
As the Adventure will take place mainly in a Wilderness
Area, the number of participants must be limited to a
maximum of 50 Patrols of 10 persons each - that is, 500
participants in total. Patrols are strictly limited to 10
persons each to comply with the Wilderness Area
regulations, and no exceptions can be made.
An illustrated PARTICIPANTS ADVENTURE GUIDE, giving full details of
the Adventure will be sent to every Adventurer well in
advance of the event, together with the special
Adventure badge. The Participants Adventure Guide explains
exactly what you may expect from your arrival at Camping HQ until your departure and includes
a recommended kit list.
Together with other members of the
patrol the Patrol Leader will be required to choose between 3 predetermined itineraries. Each of the
itineraries have been planned so as to ensure that all
participants get the opportunity to experience a diverse
range of activities while also ensuring that the popular
activities - such as Dutch Oven Cooking – are visited by all patrols.
In order to conform to the Wilderness Area regulations
the hiking itineraries have to be carefully co-ordinated
and Patrols MUST stick to their allocated itineraries. The
Patrol will be asked to list its choice of itineraries in order
of priority. In due course the Expedition Leader will be
advised of the itinerary allocated to the Patrol.
Every effort is made to try and ensure that the itinerary
requested is allocated to the patrol.
Expert instructors staff each Activity Centre. The Patrol itineraries are
planned to ensure that each person has a full opportunity to participate in the activities offered. On every Adventure we try to offer one or two new activities as well as to upgrade and enrich the old favourites, often taking into account suggestions made by participants.
Activities:
Soar above the water at Clanwilliam Dam, enjoying the excitement of PARASAILING. Pit your stalking skills and courage against the
opposing team in a fast-moving, exciting PAINTBALL field game.
At the Water Activities Centre enjoy BOARDSAILING, SAILING and WATER SKIING. Enjoy the fun of diving for sunken treasure at the DIVING Centre.
Learn amazing facts about the universe and explore the brilliant night sky at the
ASTRONOMY Centre. And there's more! Cook yourself and your friends a delicious meal, and biscuits using a reflector oven, at the DUTCH OVEN COOKING Centre.
Test your eye and muscle co-ordination with a shotgun blasting clay pigeons out of the sky, and win the handgun competition at MARKSMANSHIP. Experience the thrills and exhilaration of ROCK CLIMBING on the cliffs of the Cederberg
Tafelberg.
Take part in a GOLD RUSH and prospect for gold like the old-timers by learning how to pack burros correctly, how to pan for gold. Enjoy assembling of components at the ELECTRONICS Centre. Relax in the shade of the HANDCRAFTS Centre, making yourself a colourful T-shirt by tie-dyeing and other useful articles. Master the famous J-stroke when you dip, dip your paddles from CANADIAN CANOES like the old French-Canadian voyageurs in the early days of the fur trade in the backwoods of Canada.
At the unusual HANDICAPPED AWARENESS Centre have fun learning what it is like to have a physical handicap when playing sport or in other activities. It may not sound all that exciting, but in past Adventures it was rated one of the 3 most popular activities.
Other amazing base activities include, Archery, Pizza Making, and much much more!
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