>>979728Nothing crazy, bunch of little things that made me proud/laugh/ question God though
But yes, you need to stay out for at least one night with a shelter you built yourself. I made a game of it and heavily encouraged all aspects of being a scout when building your shelter. Winner got bragging rights.
My main points I encouraged were
>Location>Economy of effort>creativity>LazinessI outright said I would be more impressed the less work you did to make a good shelter (keyword, good shelter) If you made a shelter and literally all you did was find it you were doing pretty well. After all, it's cool and all building these crazy elaborate shelter but if you really were out in the woods on your own you'd need every calorie you could get and would want to save energy.
My favorite remains these 3 young scouts, couldn't have been older than 13. I told them to disappear into the woods and start scoping out sites, or they could build in the clearing, they just needed to stay within sight. After a minute one comes back and says they're done. I go to look and couldn't have been more proud. They had found a fallen over pine tree at the perfect height to essentially be an A frame tent as it had fallen on another log. They had already cleared it of critters, broken out the lower branches to make space and lay on top, and were proceeding to lay a tarp inside so their sleeping bags wouldn't get torn. Called the whole class over to show what true laziness/genius looked like.
Had another group that accidentally built their shelter on an ants nest. Come 2am I hear yelling and see 3 scouts in a battle to the death with their six legged bunkmates.
>MFW they told me not to worry, they had it under control.They toughed it out and made a new shelter at 2am in record time, made sure to personally tell their scout master not to mess with those 3.
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