Create: Hands

Create : Fitness

Have people holding the end of the poles for safety

The first step is to lay our the inner on the ground.  Work out which way the doors are going to be facing. Fix up the poles.  In this tent there are a total of three.  Two go from corner to corner -crossing over the middle.  And one goes through the outer opening the front section of the outer.

Here is one of our Leaders explaining to three new Guides where to place the ends of the light weight pole into the tent hole. The Guide in the middle of the tent is experienced at putting this tent up. Note this Guide is not wearing shoes.  That way the internal floor is less likely to get damaged.

Mean while there are actually two Guides [you cannot see them] holding the ends of the pole ready to place these ends into the outside corner slots.

After the second pole is in place then the Guide in the middle here just simply takes the toggle on the middle of the tent and loops it over both poles - and under the other material loop.  This secures the poles to the tent.





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Explore: Life Skills

People have the mistaken impression that you go camping by throwing a few things into the car, driving there, doing activities all day and someone else has set up the shelter for the night.

This system may work one day but I have never found it to be so.  Life skills are something that excludes exporation of mistakes, celebration of successes and then evaluation of what went right, was done right in the wrong circumstances and what failed miserably.  Next time things will be better as one experience builds upon another.

This tent inner is now up.

One of the practice nights getting the inner up.

Before any camp or tenting activity was entered into the Guides would spent weeks familiarizing themselves with tent protocol. The best way to achieve this was to actually put the tents up.  They soon would realise that what worked for one tent type did not necessarily work for another. But the team work necessary was always emphasised. And it was better to get over it and get on with it it that not want to participate thus slowing everyone else down.

No matter what type of shelter
 things got done successfully
 when there was team work.

This particular purple tent is one of the new ones that a mother had purchased for her family.  It was large enough to fit eight Guides in a sleeping arrangement. 


First the tent inner had to be in place and then the tent outer put up over every thing. 
Finally the inner of the tent is up.  Then in would go all the bags and packs.  That was until the leaders made sure the tent was safe to enter.  Out came all the bags and neatly arranged they would be put back into under the outer lining.  


The leaders waited until the tent had gone  up a few times then came the challenge: To get the whole tent up, as a patrol, in less that 3 minutes. The older Guides worked out that with four people it was quicker than with 5 people or more.



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