The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 7 - H2 Oh No! (An Outdoor Survival Video)
Channel: Monster Hobbies Online
Date: 2021-06-02

Week 7 Challenge : Build a solar still and try collecting water. Also, find a method to filter water from a dirty water source and try out some different chemical purifiers.

In today's video, I will show you my solution for The Scouts Canada Great 8 Challenge - Week 7 - Plant Pursuit. 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 : 

In this video, I teach you how to use the water cycle to gather water from plant life using a solar still made from the items our troop packed with them on this hike. 

Below is a list of the materials we use in this video:

Solar Still

1.) A clear drinking glass
2.) A cooking pot
3.) A clean, low height tin can like the one used for tuna, ham or flake chicken
4.) A black plastic garbage bag
5.) A small rock
6.) A short rope or piece of twine
7.) "Wet" material such as grass, fruit peelings, leaves, etc.

Water Filter

1.) Two containers of the same size, like tin cans
2.) A log or rock to raise one can above the other
3.) A paper towel

This video is special to me because on Saturday, June 5th, i will be teaching this lesson to our local Scout troop. 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 7 - H2 Oh No! (An Outdoor Survival Video). It means a lot to us!

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