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Search and Rescue | 
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Search and Rescue |
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In January we went to Cohutta Springs Camp on our search and rescue campout. This is where we learn how to make stretchers from jackets or shirts that we have with us and from branches that we find in the woods.
On this campout we did something that we don't usually do, instead of just going and following clues to find our victim we followed a compass course. Before the adults just let us go out on our own in search of our victim they taught us how to use a compass by playing a compass game. This game was played in a circle with stakes and was set up on the ballfield.
Here Megan
and Lahja are learning how follow a compass course. At the end of the
game we checked to see if they had the stakes in the right order. With
four compasses we could have several groups going through the course at
the same time which kept things moving along smoothly.
Donny and Phillip didn't want to let the girls get ahead of them so they put their heads together and checked on each others work. Everyone had to complete the course successfully before we split into groups.
Pam also took time to run through the compass course. She always likes to keep a step ahead of everyone.
After we had completed the compass course we had lunch while Luke and Nicki set up the locations and took the bearings for the afternoons field problem. With lunch over it was time to assign pathfinders to groups and send them on their way. They had to find the "injured" person by compass and bring them safely back to the "hospital" which would ordinarily be the cafeteria.
Here you see one of the groups bringing back a patient on a stretcher that
they made from branches and a poncho. Each group had to construct
their own stretcher from materials they had with them or could find in the
woods.