Caving
Complete the requirements below:
- Hold the Scout Caver Badge, or, with a properly authorised party, have made at least four trips underground to two different cave systems and kept a log.
- Explain how caves are formed.
- Rig and use ladder pitch under supervision.
- As part of a properly authorised party, undertake six additional trips to at least two different cave systems. Three of these trips should include sections involving supervised decent of vertical pitches.
- Know the cave conservation code and discuss measures that can be taken to promote conservation of formations and the cave environment.
- Study an aspect of speleology agreed beforehand and discuss the findings. Examples might be the fauna and flora found in caves, cave photography or bat conservation.