Bronze Expedition

The Practice Expedition

• This involved walking along the hills next to Loch Long

• It involved us putting into practice the Map Reading Skills that we had learned in the training sessions.

• We learned new skills that we would use for the final expedition.

• We used all the skills that we had worked on in the training sessions and were able to use them properly (tent building ect)

• We stayed next to the Finnart Oil Terminal on Loch Long

Our Highlights of the Practice Expedition

• Having a group fire next to the beach

• Cooking food together

• The good weather that we had

• Having a good location next to the loch

• Being together as a group and working as a team • Having an interesting route to follow • Being Motivated for the whole Journey

The Qualifying Expedition

• We followed this route.

• We used the skills that

we learned from out training and

our practice expedition

• We walked over 4 Kilometres

through various valleys and hills.

• We worked as a team for cooking, our project and more

• We stuck together as group and stayed motivated the whole journey

Our Highlights of the Qualifying Expedition

• Working together as a group

• Completing tasks together

• Being motivated the whole time

• Playing games on the journey to pass the time

• Constructing our tents with no hassle

• Building our Defensive Shelter

• Following a Scenic Route throughout the Countryside

• We were able to successfully cope with tasks such as cooking

Lowlights of both Expeditions

• A fox stealing our food at night!

• Tics in the grass

• Midges

• The weather did start to get very warm at the end of the qualifying expedition

• Over packing for the first expedition

How to Build a One man Defensive ShelterAlex-Calum-Graham-Hamish-Iain-Marcus-Sean

Bronze Expedition

The Aim of our Project

• Our aim was to build a one man Defensive Shelter

• We choose this as we wanted to involve some sort of shelter building however with a twist to make it more interesting.

How we decided to use our time

• We wanted to use our time wisely so we made a plan. The Next few Pages will show you us completing the steps in our plan

Planning

Collect Materials

Prepare MaterialsMain

Construction

Finishing Touches

Planning

• Choose a Location

• For our location we wanted somewhere high up with a vantage point.

• Here is where we picked

The Arrow Indicates our Location(Behind the Trees.)

One of the views from our location atop of the Shelter

• Part 2 Involved Sketching a Layout of what we wanted to construct and planning what materials we wanted to construct it with.

Planning

The Area we choose to work withSome of our paper plans of what materials we would use

Collecting Materials

• We deliberately picked the Position we did as it was next to the forest, this allowed for us to collect materials easily.

Preparing Materials

• This involved sharpening the Sticks for the ground, and making sure we had the right amount and type of materials that we wanted.

Main Construction

• This involved construction of the materials we gathered in a way that would work as a defensive shelter.

Finishing Touches

• This involved finishing off the roof and adding the Flag pole to the top of the rock as well as checking that everything was how we wanted it to be.

Our Video

• We wanted to be able to show our video from start until finish so we decided to do a time-lapse

• Here’s the video.

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Bronze Expedition