The Events
Fire Starting Maintaining Fire
First Aid Team Building
Compass Skills Winter Rescues
Lashings Knot Tying
The actual events will be kept secret until the day of the Klondike, following are several potential activities that will be close to the actual activities.
Blindfolded Stretcher Carry
Four blindfolded Scouts carry a fifth Scout (not blindfolded) on a stretcher around a course following directions given by the Scout on the stretcher.
Compass Bearing
All members of the patrol sight on an object and report collectively on its bearing; and lay off a bearing and report the object on the bearing. This event may also require a patrol to use a compass to orient a topographic map.
Fire Lighting and Water Boiling
The patrol is timed in laying and lighting a fire and using it to boil water in a standard container. Bonus points for lighting the fire without matches, e.g. with a flint and steel, magnifying glass, or bow drill. This event could be held at the lunch area. Points could also be given for lunch area clean up.
First Aid: Split and Transport
Patrol required to care for a casualty with a broken leg; after splinting, place the casualty correctly on sled for transport. Patrols are responsible for bringing the needed supplies.
Gully Crossing
Each member of the patrol to cross a gully on a thick rope stretched between two trees. If time allows, extra points if the patrol is able to transport its sled across the rope as well. A Scouter must test the installed ropes with their full weight before Scouts cross. Height of ropes must be such that the feet of a Scout hanging by both hands and about to fall will be close to the snow. Snow beneath the ropes must be free of sticks, stumps, rocks, etc. Event with 4 ropes in operation needs 7-8 Scouters, with one or two to control traffic. A Scouter should coach and monitor each Scout traversing on a rope.
Height and Distance Estimation
Patrol estimates the height of a tree or rock face, and a horizontal distance. No climbing is allowed.
Ice Rescue
Each Scout throws a rope to a "victim" who has "fallen through the ice" and retrieves same. Patrol may be asked to demonstrate other forms of ice rescue.
Knife, Axe, and Saw Usage
Each Scout demonstrates safe use in simple firewood collection tasks. They may use a two-person saw to cut a large log.
Knots
Scouts tie knots and show they know how to use them.
Lashings
Patrol demonstrates lashings in the construction of something simple, such as a tripod.
Panning for Gold
Patrol uses a tarp co-operatively to toss a "nugget" over a horizontal rope 3 m above the ground. The nugget should be a tennis ball or a larger ball, coloured yellow. It must not be a hard object in case it falls on a Scout's head. The event can be scored by counting the number of consecutive times the nugget gets over the rope.
Rope Square
The patrol, blindfolded, forms a horizontal square with a rope 20 m long. This involves folding the rope in half, then in quarters, and then laying it out in a square.
Valley of the Snakes
All members of the patrol must stand on a small block of wood or tree stump so that no one is touching the ground. |
