The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 5 - Disaster Master (An Outdoor Survival Video)
Channel: Monster Hobbies Online
Date: 19/05/2021

Week 5 Challenge : You have been hiking for a long time and some members of your hiking party are experiencing blisters, a sore arm and heat stroke. How do you help them out? 

In today's video, I will show you my solution for The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 5 - Disaster Master. This is an outdoor survival adventure video.

What is the Great 8 Challenge? Here's some background reading!

Les Stroud, aka Survivorman, will be hosting this epic 8-week challenge and all the participating Scouts Canada groups will be competing for not only bragging rights, but to accumulate weekly crests and earn a coveted Ghost Crest!

With the challenges introduced weekly by videos from The Survivorman himself, it's going to be an adventure filled week you won't want to miss!

This series of challenges was developed by Les Stroud and Scouts Canada as activities that could be done either in a group or on your own during the pandemic of 2020/2021 to help get all the Scouts and Scouters out and doing something fun under their provincial restrictions.

About myself :

I am Scouter Trevor, (A Scout Leader) in our local community, as well as the owner of Monster Hobbies, a local hobby shop. As a youth, I was involved in Scouting and my Dad was also a Scout leader. Both my wife and daughters are also involved. I decided to try and make as many of these videos about what I am doing to solve the weekly challenge as I can. 

About our group :

We have a group of Scouts and Scouters that met online and decided that we could meet this challenge in person on our regular Tuesday Night Zoom meetings. Due to the pandemic regulations, we were not able to physically meet as a group at our regular camp site for this challenge, but I decided to make this challenge video on my own to show our group how to make a natural compass and use orientation skills and trail markers to get out of the woods. . 

About this video : 

This video uses a lot of information from the Canadian Red Cross, St. John Ambulance and even the Boy Scouts How To Do It manual from 1943 (The arm bandage illustrations).  There is some information which I did not go into depth from those books I show in the video due to time constraints. Make sure you check the Canadian Red Cross and  St. John Ambulance web sites and look over their information before you help someone. Always introduce yourself as the first aid person and ask the casualty for consent to help them before you begin if it is possible. 

I do not profess to be a doctor. This video was only to demonstrate the basic first aid required as of 2021 to treat the afflictions mentioned in this video. Always keep up to date and practice the current safety measures before you treat any person. 

The web addresses for the St. John Ambulance is https://www.sja.ca 

The web addresses for the Canadian Red Cross is https://www.redcross.ca/firstaid

In the end, everything worked out, and that's what Scouting is all about. 

Do Your Best!
Be Prepared!
And always have fun!

Thank you for watching The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 5 - Disaster Master (An Outdoor Survival Video). It means a lot to us!

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