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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Building houses out of straw bales
Can you see your tent from here?
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Aiming higher
by Hamish Arnold
Scouts and Guides across Poacher are aiming high this week. And where better to demonstrate this than the climbing tower.It stands tall in the field, with participants climbing up and abseiling down all four sides. It can be quite a daunting experience if you’ve
never done anything like it before, but many participants seemed to be overcoming their fears, scaling the wall with ease. Dalton, 10, from 18th Lincoln Bailgate on Story Book Legends subcamp said he had never seen anything like this. He said: “It looked
high from the bottom, but once I got going I enjoyed it.” Climbing can be quite a physical activity. Dalton said: “It’s fun because you need to find where you need to put your hands and feet.” It was a sunny morning on the activity field, the perfect weather for crate
stacking. Working in groups of four, participants needed to pile up crates into two towers and climb up while getting increasingly wobbly. Rosa, 13, and Katie, 15, from Welton Guides on Story Book Legends subcamp had just attempted crate stacking. “It’s harder
than it looks,” they said, “you have to step on the crates, and put them on one at a time”. The Guides thought they managed to get five crates high before it was too unstable to continue; “It was really wobbly and it’s very funny even though we didn’t do very well!”