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Our latest posts are designed to help Scouts, youth groups, leaders and anyone interested in outdoor learning develop practical knowledge and confidence. From new activity ideas and survival skills to useful how-to guides, check back regularly for the latest resources.
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 93: Cook an Egg in Embers
Cooking over a campfire isn’t always about balancing a pan on a pot stand. Embers hold heat long after the flames have settled, making them useful for certain cooking methods when they’re managed properly. An egg cooked in its shell is a simple way to explore that heat, but it needs care: the shell can…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 92: Set Up a Solo Camp
Setting up camp on your own means every task is down to you. There’s nobody to hold a pole while you secure a corner, pass you a peg or find the item buried at the bottom of your rucksack. The more familiar you are with your equipment and the order in which things need doing,…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 91: Walk 2km by Moonlight
Walking outdoors after dark changes how you experience even a familiar route. Shapes become harder to distinguish, distances can be deceptive and uneven ground is less obvious. Moonlight can provide enough illumination to see some features, but it is highly variable and should never be treated as a dependable substitute for a torch. For this…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 90: Identify Five Constellations and Use Them to Find North
The night sky can provide useful clues about direction, but only when you know what you’re looking at. Long before modern navigation devices, travellers used familiar star patterns to orient themselves, estimate direction and recognise their place in the world. For this challenge, you’ll learn to recognise five constellations and use the stars to locate…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 89: Set Up Camp by Headtorch in Under 20 Minutes
Setting up camp after dark can be more difficult than it sounds. Familiar equipment becomes harder to find, tent fabric can be confusing to handle and small jobs take much longer when you can only see the area illuminated by your headtorch. Good preparation makes a real difference, though, and a well-organised camper should be…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 88: Produce a Set of Wooden Tent Pegs From Suitable Deadwood
Wooden tent pegs are a simple example of how traditional outdoor skills can turn a natural material into something useful. With suitable wood, a sharp cutting tool and a little patience, you can shape a peg that demonstrates your ability to select materials, work safely and understand what makes equipment effective. For this challenge, you’ll…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 87: Learn the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
When you’re outdoors, clear communication can make a real difference. Background noise, wind, poor phone reception and unfamiliar place names can make ordinary spelling difficult to understand, particularly when you’re sharing a location or passing important information to another person. The NATO phonetic alphabet helps solve this problem by giving each letter a distinctive spoken…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 86: Learn to Make a Smoke Signal
Smoke has been used as a visual signal for centuries because it can sometimes be seen from a considerable distance. In an outdoor emergency, a visible signal may help rescuers or other people locate someone who needs assistance, particularly where mobile phone coverage is poor. However, making smoke is not as simple as creating a…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 85: Learn to Read Waves
The sea can look calm from a distance while hiding powerful currents, changing conditions and waves that behave very differently from one another. Learning to observe the waves helps you to understand what the water is doing and recognise when a stretch of coast may be hazardous. Waves are shaped by wind, the seabed, the…
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Pure Bushcraft Outdoor Skills Challenge 84: Compare Two Water Filters
When you’re outdoors, having a reliable way to obtain safe drinking water is an important part of preparation. Portable water filters can make collecting water more practical, but different models vary in their design, flow rate, capacity and intended use. In this challenge, you’ll compare two water filters by passing the same source water through…
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