Cold Weather Camping Skills Training Workshop

Section Scouters, Venturers, Rovers, and Service Volunteers

Date: Saturday-Sunday November 29-30, 2014 with pre-meeting Tuesday November 25, 2014
Times: Arrival Saturday morning 9:00 am, Finish about 2:00 pm Sunday
Location: Camp Samac, 275 Conlin Road East., Oshawa, Ontario (Lakeland Campsite)

Cost: $25.00 per course (2 days) & Pre-Training meeting, includes course materials.
REGISTRATION CLOSES NOVEMBER 21st

Pre-Training Meeting: Tuesday November 25, 2014, 7:00-9:30 at 33 Wynfield Cres. Whitby

Accommodations: You will provide your own tent.

Target Audience: all Scouters; Please note: we will be sleeping in tents and doing a multi-hour hike regardless of the weather. Reasonable physical fitness is required.

Course Objective: to increase the skills, knowledge and comfort level of Scouters as leaders of Scouting youth groups for outdoor, cold-weather camping, hiking and backpacking activities with a light-weight equipment focus.

Trainers:

Wil Corneal (1^st Port Perry) Troop Leader, Venturer Leader, 30+ years experience in outdoors programs

Lewis Williams (Deputy National Commissioner Program-Outdoors) Venturer Advisor, Canoe ORCA Trainer, Winter expedition specialist

Jeff Clark (9^th Whitby Scouts)

Gord Fry, (9^th Whitby Venturers)

Orientation and Theory evening: Tuesday November 25, 2014, 7:00-9:30 at 33 Wynfield Cres. Whitby.

Planning, preparing, paperwork, what to bring, clothing, menu planning, etc.

Overnight Experience and Practice: Saturday-Sunday November 29-30, 2014.

Participants to Bring: food in cooking groups, tents, all personal and sleeping gear, group pots and single-burner stoves, kitchen clean up gear, compass, pen and paper, mess kit, water bottle, appropriate clothing and footwear, something to sit on outside/folding camp chair, matches/lighter, snacks, campfire activities and stories

Registration: Register online: Cold Weather Camping and If you don’t pay online send with a cheque payable to "Scouts Canada" for $25.

Registrations and enquires to Course Coordinator:

Brian Wick
711 Rossland Rd East, Apt 1101,
Whitby, ON L1N 8Z1

bwick@brooklinsigns.com | 905-922-5678

	Day 1- Saturday	Day 2- Sunday
	9:00- arrival, welcome, intro	8:00am Breakfast
9:00- 10:30	Module 1- Camp set up, safe camp layout Gear Needed: Tents? Instructor:	Module 6- Survival Game- winter plane crash scenario- (survival components: shelter building, fire lighting, water purification, food prep, signalling, attitude) Gear needed- tarp, long branches/poles, water, fire wood- tinder and kindling, matches, tin foil, paper bag, baggy, rope, oxo cube. Lewis can provide most; who- long branches and other shelter debris?? Instructor:
10:30- 12:00	Module 2- Group gear; personal gear for cold weather- keeping warm; tent selection; Show and Tell format Instructor:	as above
12:00- 1:00	Lunch on single-burner stoves; menu selection discussion Gear Needed: single-burner stoves and fuel, pot sets, dish clean up basins etc Instructor:	Lunch Same as Saturday Instructor:
1:00- 3:00	Module 3- Practical Hike: leadership with emergency scenarios on the trail and compass navigation Gear needed: compasses, emergency scenarios (Lewis has several) Instructor:	1:00 clean up and feedback 2:00 closure Gear Needed: Scouts course evaluation form; some form of recognition- certificates? Instructor:
3:00- 3:30	Break
3:30-5:00	Module 4- Cold-weather activities (daytime) for Scouting sections Instructor:
5:00- 7:00	Dinner on wood fires// or single-burner stoves??? Gear Needed: firewood???or stoves and fuel, matches/lighters, dish basins and clean up etc Instructor:
7:00- 8:30	Module 5- Campfire/night activities when cold camping; risk management Gear needed: firewood, campfire snacks (participants) Instructor:

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